Critically reinventing its format every year, PhotoIreland Festival continues to be the ideal testing ground for artists and curators where to create new Photographic work, and for Irish audiences to gain a broader understanding of the discipline. Conceived in 2008, and celebrating its first edition in 2010, PhotoIreland Festival is Ireland’s international festival of Photography and Image Culture. It celebrates Ireland’s photographic talents, presents international practitioners and artists in Ireland, creates new avenues for cultural exchange and cooperation, and promotes a critical engagement with Photography in Ireland.
6pm Fri 2 July — PhotoIreland Festival Launch with Hertta Kiiski
1pm Wed 7 July — Dániel Szalai and David Hunt
1pm Wed 14 July — Hans van der Meer, Niall Sargent, and Sinéad Moran
8pm Wed 14 July — aemi and Kevin Gaffney
2pm Sun 18 July — Dorothy Cashman
1pm Wed 21 July — Mathieu Asselin and Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo
2pm Sun 25 July — Reading Group: Ksenia Yurkova and Corina Apostol
1pm Wed 28 July — Sheng-Wen Lo and Maria Delaney
Sat 3 Jul — Jennie Moran and Aoibhinn O’Dea
10am Sat 10 July — April Gertler
6pm Sat 17 July — Deirdre O’Mahony
6pm Sat 17 July — Fiona Hallinan
6pm Sat 24 July — The Center for Genomic Gastronomy
6pm Sat 31 July — Ana Núñez Rodríguez
OVER Journal & The Library Project
Francesca Catastini, Hiro Tanaka, and Theo Ellison FUTURES European Photography Platform
The Tokyo International Photography Competition 2020
Vibrant, friendly, all-inclusive: a festival for all to enjoy, this year’s edition brings to Ireland contemporary photography by celebrated artists from diverse cultural backgrounds through a series of guest-curated exhibitions by internationally established curators—including newly commissioned and rarely seen works, and hundreds of publications to discover at the art book fair, alongside an engaging public talks programme with a series of discursive events taking place online and in-person.
Under the title Opening The Gates, the 13th edition of PhotoIreland Festival presented the most comprehensive overview on the History and Practice of Photography in Ireland to date, running 7th July to 28th August 2022 in various locations, with the main venue at The Printworks, Dublin Castle.
There is power in how we feed ourselves, with food being the cornerstone of cultures, ideologies, and principles. Eating or not eating can be an act of protest, feeding or not feeding — an act of control; food brings people together and pushes them apart.
In 2020, the festival was brought to you through two separate channels, navigating our virtual and physical worlds: online with stimulating participative events, and offline, both in print through OVER journal, and at The Library Project.
From May to July, we celebrated 10 years of a festival that has been actively looking at what we were missing in Ireland, and what the world was missing of Ireland.
The Museum Of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, at The Printworks Dublin Castle, with the kind support of OPW; a temporary space for an on-going research project that we started in 2019.
In 2018, aligned to a historic moment for Ireland, the festival focused on two very different practices engaging with Women’s Rights: Laia Abril and Sarah Cullen. This year brought to Ireland the first presentation of the EU Photography Platform Futures. read more »
In 2017, the festival explored how Photography is used to share accounts of personal experiences related to conflict. This year also presented a brand new and important alternative to the portfolio review – Critical Practice Reviews. read more »
The 2016 saw the launch of the second edition of New Irish Works, the Dublin leg of an ambitious EU project Flâneur: Urban Narratives, and the main show IDEALS which challenged standards in exhibition making as far as Photography is concerned. read more »
The 2015 edition presented a selection of practices focused on experimentation and personal research, looking at ways in which photographers challenge themselves with what Lars von Trier called ‘obstructions’. read more »
The 2014 edition focused on the use of images in our everyday. Whether in the private or the public sphere, we need them for sharing and obtaining details regarding experiences, news, and events. It is all about storytelling. read more »
New Irish Works presented photographic projects by 25 artists, proposing a selection of what constitutes a testament to the wealth and legacy of photography in Ireland. read more »
A very relevant issue for Ireland, ‘Migration: Diaspora and Cultural Identity’ was the proposed theme for 2012. The main shows offered a wide range of views on migration, and it included a great selection of key photobooks. read more »
Offering a positive and constructive view to a financial crisis, the second edition explored the idea of ‘Collaborative Change’ as an strategy to pull individual’s energies into a collective effort, questioning an urge for individualism. We published Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade. read more »
Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, the first festival edition was developed as a celebration of Photography in Ireland, involving over 30 venues around Dublin city center, listing hundreds of Photographers. read more »
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