Daragh Soden

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Daragh Soden

Daragh Soden is an artist, photographer and director from Dublin, Ireland.

His work explores universal themes that affect him personally. Using mainly still images, but also moving image, prose, poetry and installation.

Soden’s Young Dubliners series, a combination of environmental portraits and diaristic text, has been exhibited in Dublin, London and Paris.

In 2017, he was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury at the Hyères Festival.

In 2018, he exhibited Toulon, at the Villa Noailles in Hyères and in Toulon, France.

In 2019, Soden exhibited Looking for Love in The Photographers’ Gallery in London. A series of analogue photographs, digital lightboxes and a super8 film, Looking for Love was part of the group exhibition Shot In Soho including work by artists William Klein and Anders Petersen.

Most recently, Soden presented Ladies & Gentlemen, a series of large format portrait photographs, in a solo exhibition at PhotoIreland Festival, 2022.

Soden continues to make new work that builds and expands upon his practice as an ever evolving artist.

Publications

Appears in

Aperture Magazine, M le Monde, British Journal of Photography, WSJ Magazine, Holiday Magazine, Vogue Italia
Shot in Soho, published by Prestel, edited by Karen McQuaid & Julian Rodriguez
Pools, published by Rizzoli, edited by Lou Stoppard
X, designed, edited & published by Daragh Soden

Awards and honours

Grand Prix du Jury, Hyères International Festival, 2017
Undergraduate Award, British Journal of Photography Awards, 2016

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2022, Ladies & Gentlemen, PhotoIreland, Dublin
2019, Looking for Love, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2019, Young Dubliners, Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin
2019, A Dark Secret, Red Hook Labs, New York
2018, Tales of Toulon, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
2018, Tales of Toulon, Rue des Artes, Toulon, France
2017, Young Dubliners, Hyères International Festival, Hyères, France
2016, Young Dubliners, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2016, Young Dubliners, PhotoIreland Festival, The Library Project, Dublin
2016, Young Dubliners, British Journal of Photography Awards, London
2015, Splott, Sherman Cymru, Cardiff, Wales
2014, Splott, The Abacus, Cardiff , Wales

Group exhibitions

2021 Newport Masculine, Newport / Lab exhibition & workshop, Newport, Wales
2019 Looking for Love, Shot In Soho exhibition, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2019 Young Dubliners, Snap Judgements exhibition, Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin
2019 A Dark Secret, New Artists III exhibition, Red Hook Labs, New York
2017 Young Dubliners, Hyères International Festival, Hyères, France
2016 Young Dubliners, solo show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2016 Burning To Shine, Queer Circle, Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, London
2016 Young Dubliners, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin
2016 Young Dubliners, British Journal of Photography Awards, London
2016 Savior, 186th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2016 Splott, Made In Wales II, Oriel Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, Wales