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PhotoIreland Festival 2016

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The nature of the PhotoIreland Festival is defined by its plasticity, not its rigidity. Meaning, the format of the festival adapts and changes yearly in by its inclusions and in its nature. 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.

This iteration of the festival examines subjects such as the dark side of Finnish policing, a look into perspective, how the Euro rail connects stories, Dublin through the lens of street photography, and so much more. In focusing on highlighting new photography, specifically the work of upcoming Irish Photographers, this year’s festival aims to propel the Irish art community. 

We invite you to tour the digital archive of the festival, a mere glimpse into all the programming that took place in 2016.

PhotoIreland Festival 2016

PhotoIreland Festival 2016

PhotoIreland Festival 2016

Overview

PhotoIreland Festival 2016

New Irish Works
2016.photoireland.org

Exhibitions

New Irish Work, About Mandy O’Neill, About Daragh Soden,  1-31 Jul
IDEALS, Agustina Triquell, António Castilho, Elisa Gonzalez Miralles, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, Florian van Roekel, Gavin Mullan, Jörg Brüggemann, Marie-Pierre Cravedi, Mark Duffy, Richard Seymour, Robert McCormack, Sean Hillen, Wawrzyniec Kolbusz, and Yaakov Israel. 2-24 Jul
Youngdon Jung, Blank verse,  2 July-30 Sep
Flâneur By Dublin, Esther Teichmann, Rik Moran, 3-24 Jul
How to flatten a Mountain, Abigail Taubman, Alex Westfall, Alexandra Huddleston, Alisha Doody, Aoife Shanahan, Christopher Bleuher, Deanna M Witman, John Cullen, Julia Mejnertsen, Rixt de Boer, and Tomoko Daido, 8-24 Jul
Asia Pacific Photobook Archive, Darren Glass, Ren Shulin,Solomon Mortimer & Zahra Killen-Chance, Any Lonely Person Harvey Benge, Kaamna Patel, Aaron Claringbold, Yuck Zine, Atsushi Fujiwara, Dina Gadia, Luo Changwei, Tomoaki Makino, Benjamin Füglister, Nicholas Hawker, Czar Kristoff, Leon Qu, Sean Fennessy, Jippy Pascua,. Olivia Mroz, Chie Murakami & Koichi Kamio, Saori Ninomiya, 2014, Daniel Milnor & Andrew Kaufman, Erin Noir, Sun Yanchu, Ridhwan Soldi, Kate Molenkamp, Liu Waitong, Sean Lee, Emmanuel Angelicas,  Camilo Bustamante, Charlie Hillhouse, Wu Chenghun, Isabella Capezio, Miti Ruangkritya, Miti Ruangkritya,  Karl Binger, Basilla Saturino, Bruno Quinquet, Matthew Griffin, Ian Teh, Kanako Sasaki, Nozomi Lijima, Raphella Rosella, Yoshikatsu Fujii, Matt Naturani & Luke Van Aurich,  1-31 Jul
Fotobook Kassel Dummy Awards 2016,  1-31 Jul
SEEING: What Are You Looking At?,  Kate Coleman, Gerry Lacey,  Semir Zeki, Lynn Scarff,  24 June-26 September
Landscape Rising, Karl Burke, Mary Furlong, Kim Haughton, and Joby Hickey,  1-23 Jul
Enda Bowe, At Mirrored River, 2 July-16 Oct
Fergus, About Francesco Taurisano, Luca Truffarelli, 1–30 Jul
Historias Inmediatas, Shiv Ankit Ahuja, Anubhav Syal, Natalia Queirolo Calmet, Shane Green, Paulina Lara, Ana Sofía Ayarzagoitia, and Duarte Amaral Neto. 7-29 Jul
The Museum of August Destiny,  Aideen Barry, Mark Clare, Amanda Coogan, Anthony Haughey, Dragana Jurisic and Sarah Pierce. 17 July-4 Sep
Juha Arvid Helminen, The invisible empire. 17 June-9 Jul
Stray and my Own Unknown, Paul Gaffney, 24 June-28 Jul
Alice Beresford, scar lines. 27 June-10 Jul
Shutter,  Fergus Bourke, y Amelia Stein, John Minihan,  Dominic Turner, Patricio Cassinoni, Sheila McSweeney f Hugh O’Conor,  Amelia Stein, Dominic Turner and Steve Avrill.30 June-31 Jul
Ste Murray, My mistakes were made for you. 1-24 Jul
Sight Specific, Jialin Long,  Jack Niewiadowski, Itas Asylum, Sarah Kennedy, Ivaylo Petrov, Adrianna Deron,  Elizabeth Finnegan, Adrinne Clifford Johnston,  Amanda Lynch,  6pm 4 Jul
From where I stand, Stephanie Culbert, Karina Guinan, Jennifer Marie Sweeney, and Valerie Sweeney. 4-16 jul
Dublin Camera club annual exhibition, Gerry Andrews, Ger Connell, Chris Ducker, Helen Hannifin, Patrick Hogan, Inta Kaulina, Philip O’Rourke, Adrian Sadler, Swathi Ranjith and Paul Stanley. 6-30 Jul
Patrick Donald, Dublin 100 years on.  7-31 Jul
Perspectives, Natalie Byrne, Raymond Coetzee, Stuart Pearson, Seán Ó Domhnaill, and Natalia Raffran.  8-14 Jul
UU MFA Show,  Aaron Dickson, Richard Gosnold, Katrina Taggart, Tim West, Dianne Whyte, and Dalyce Wilson, 9-21 Jul
Obsecure street, : Richard Sandler, Tatsuo Suzuki ,  Jesse Marlow,  Dougie Wallace,  Gabi Ben Avraham Nick Turpin , Sarah Choi , 8-21 Jul
Chasing shadows, 22 July–14 Aug
Nothing in stone, Yusuf Amod, Ellie Berry, Stephen Clarke, Steven Colleary, Liadh Connolly, Hue Hale, Clare Lyons, Robbie Mullins, David J Moore, Kieran Murray, Cale Perrin, Jonathan Phelan, Julia Ptak, and Olivia Quiney, 22-30 Jul
Seamus Travers, All´s Changed 1916-2016, 23 July-6 Aug

Workshops

Workshop: Rik and Esther Teichmann, 1-2 Jul
Read that image:Make a photobook, 22-24 Jul

Talks

Flâneur-New Urban Narratives with Nuno Rico Salgado, Rik Moran and Esther Teichmann, 2 Jul

Contributors

New Irish Works
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Aisling McCoy, Caitriona Dunnett, Dara McGrath, Daragh Soden, David Thomas Smith, Eanna de Freine, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, Jan McCullough, Jill Quigley, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Matthew Thompson, Miriam O’Connor, Noel Bowler, Robert McCormack, Roseanne Lynch, Shane Lynam, and Yvette Monahan.

Flâneur By Dublin
Esther Teichmann (DE), Rik Moran (UK), Giacomo Brunelli, Virgílio Ferreira, Toni Amengual, Marcello Bonfanti, Dougie Wallace, David Severn, Kajal Nisha Patel, Augusto Brázio, and Martina Cleary.

Supported by

supported by 2016 PI Festival

supported by 2016 PI Festival

Team

CURATORIAL TEAM
Julia Gelezova – Arts Administrator
Moritz Neumüller – Curatorial Advisor
Ángel Luis González Fernández – PhotoIreland Founder & Director

PRODUCTION TEAM
Technical Team – Eoin Ghoulihan, Jamin Keogh, Frank Brennan

VOLUNTEERS
Alisha Doody, Carmen Sant Angelo, Clare Davies, Clare Steele, Ellie Berry, Frank Brennan, George Voronov, Hanna Zajac, Jamin Keogh, Josef Kovac, Julia Ptak, Karine Murta, Katarzyna Michalak, Kaylah Benton Byrne, Kostas Epidis, Leyre Vicente, Pablo Jean, Pamela Doyle, Silvia Elorduy, Steven Maybury, Tim Kovar

Achievements

  • The eighth edition of PhotoIreland Festival, with works by Michal Iwanowski, Anna Ehrenstein, Demetris Koilalous, Jasper Bastian, Marcus Haydock, Mark McGuinness, Martin von den Driesch, Steven Nestor, Jens Sundheim, Sascha Richter, Robert McCormack & David Thomas Smith.
  • 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.

Locations

The Library Project, Irish Georgian Society, The Copper House Gallery, Smithfield Square, Rathfarnham Castle, Science Gallery Dublin, Solomon Fine Art, Visual Carlow, Instituto Cervantes Dublin, Lismore Castle, Galleryx, Oliver Sears Gallery, 31 Molesworth St, Inspirational Arts, The chq Building, Filmbase, The Chocolate Factory, Dublin Camera Club, Patrick Donald Photography Gallery, National College of Art & Design, ArtBox, In-spire, Galerie Dublin, Steam Box, Travers Photography, Read That Image, Generator Hostel Dublin, and SO Fine Art Editions

Press Release

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.

Selected by an international panel of 23 professionals, New Irish Works 2016 brings you a selection of 20 projects and 20 photographers representing the diverse range of practices coming from Ireland. New Irish Works 2016 is a year long project of 10 presentations and 20 publications that aims to highlight the great moment Irish Photography is experiencing.

The artists selected are: Ailbhe Ní BhriainAisling McCoy, Caitriona Dunnett, Dara McGrathDaragh SodenDavid Thomas SmithEanna de Freine, Emer GillespieEnda BoweJan McCulloughJill QuigleyKate NolanMandy O’NeillMatthew ThompsonMiriam O’ConnorNoel BowlerRobert McCormackRoseanne LynchShane Lynam, and Yvette Monahan.

Every month from July 2016 to July 2017, a special presentation will be hosted at The Library Project for two of the selected artists at a time. The presentation will include a display and a publication for each artist’s project. The two artists that will be presented during PhotoIreland Festival are Daragh Soden (Young Dubliners) and Mandy O’Neill (Promise).

PhotoIreland will bring New Irish Works abroad at key events like PhotoEspaña, with the support of the Embassy of Ireland in Madrid, and to Paris during Paris Photo, with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais.

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