PhotoIreland Festival

Founded 2010
Location Various locations around Dublin, Ireland.
Website photoireland.org

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.

The festival has a deep interest in supporting emerging artists, and does so successfully with ambitious exhibitions, creatively developing a well-defined artistic vision within the limitations of small budgets, always collaborating with international guest curators. ¹

History

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.

A project of PhotoIreland, the festival receives support from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council and other local and international organisations to run the PhotoIreland Festival every year.

The festival works with a growing international network of partners to multiply the impact of its programme. Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme, projects like Flaneur – New Urban Narratives, Futures Photography, Parallel Platform, have presented rich opportunities for exchange and promoted local artists internationally.

PhotoIreland Festival has evolved over time thanks to its openness, honesty, and critical vision, developing new structures that have become essential elements of the PhotoIreland portfolio, such as the Critical Academy, New Irish Works, The Library Project, and more recently, the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland.

Exhibitions

The Printworks at Dublin Castle will host three main exhibitions:

Catherine E. McKinley curates newly commissioned, photography-based multi-media work by artist Atong Atem. Installed in the Royal Chapel, Dust explores the relationship of Dinka women who act as mediums and custodians to the earth, to the rupturing history of Christianity and colonialism.
A diverse constituency of creative practitioners working in photography and lens-based media including Aida Silvestri, Bernice Mulenga, Frida Orupabo, Heather Agyepong, Hélène Amouzou, Lola Flash, Mónica de Miranda, Phoebe Boswell, Silvia Rosi, and Zanele Muholi, the latter presented in collaboration with The McKinley Collection, are brought together in a group show titled I See the Face of Things to Come by guest curator Renée Mussai. The thematic exhibition centres around a fluid interpretation of (self) portraiture—as repertoire, as chorus and soliloquy, as moving image, as vision, as breath, as vessel, as archive, as embodiment, as justice, as activism, as community—showcasing the interdisciplinary work of artists whose evocative praxis amplifies notions of self and other through the prism of past, present and future tenses.
Artist Ethel-Ruth Tawe presents work in response to Ben Krewinkel historic and contemporary photobook archive Africa in the Photobook.

Exhibitions

Images Are All We Have, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 8 July—25 August
Ladies & Gentlemen, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, 9 July- 7 August
Video Works, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 8 July—25 August
Anna’s Notes, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 8 July—25 August
The Timelapse — From the Front, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 8 July—25 August
Made in Dublin, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 8 July—25 August
On Exactitude in Science, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, 8 July—25 August
TWO, Eamonn Doyle, The Library Project, 16 July—28th August
STILL, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, 10—30 July
girls girls girls, Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford, 2 Apr—30 Oct 2022
T he Tower, Rua Red, Dublin, 27 May—27 August
Art Forms in Nature, The Glucksman, Co. Cork, 7 April—10 July
Meat and Potatoes, Crawford Art Gallery, Co. Cork, 16 July—6th Nov
I Am Sitting in a Room, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, 18 Jun—5 Aug
Bones in the Attic, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 11 Aug—30 Oct
Loose on the Streets, Karen Browett, The Darkroom, Dublin, 25 August—7 September

Events

Artists Talk Series: RADAR Artists 2022, Ayesha Ahmad, Daniel Breen, Ryan Allen, and Sarah Navan, Sat 20 August
Family Cyanotype Workshop, Sat 9 July
Ireland Creates: Live, 13 August
Photobook Launch: Naïve, Sat 9 July, The Printworks
Photobook Launch: The Drift /// Parallax, 25th August
Photobook Launch: Next Exit, 14 July, The Printworks
Poetry and Photography: In Conversation. Writer Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan talks to photographers Michelle Moloney and Letizia Lopreiato about the connection between poetry and photography, 9 July, The Printworks
Photo Walk, Aidan Kelly, Ailbhe Greaney, Aisling Keavey, Ala Buisir, Alisha Doody, Amy O’Riordan, Audrey Gillespie, Austin Hearne, Basil Al-Rawi, Becks Butler, Bernadette Keating, Chad Alexander, Clare Gallagher, Daragh Soden, Emma Campbell, Emma O’Brien, Ethna Rose O’Regan, Gary Byrne, Jamin Keogh, Jan McCullough, Jean Curran, Jeanette Lowe, Jialin Long, Kate Nolan, Kate Swift, Mark McGuinness, Olamide Ojegbenro, Paul Gaffney, Pauline Rowan, Rachel Glass, Richard Gosnold, Shane Lynam, and Sinéad Curran, Fri 15 July. Amy O’Riordan, Billy Woods, Bryony Dunne, Daniel Breen, David Copeland, David Killeen, David Monahan, Debbie Castro, Diego Fabro, Dorje de Burgh, Enda Burke, Fiona-Louise Ntidendereza, Gerry Blake, Helio Leon, Jill Quigley, Kety Duran, Mark Duffy, Martin Seeds, Myles Shelly, Niamh Barry, Ruby Wallis, Ryan Allen, Sarah Navan, Seán Hillen, Sibéal Riordan, Steven Nestor, Tessy Ehiguese, Thomas Hall, Vera Ryklova, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, and Zoe Hamill, Sat 16 July.
Think Tank – Photography: An Empathetic Gesture?,25 August
Think Tank – On Histories II, 29 July
Think Tank – On Histories I, 22 July
Artists Talk Series I, Jean Curran and David Flood, 9 July

Exhibitions

Milky Way, Project Arts Centre 1-4 July.
Bite The Hand That Feeds You, Alan Phelan, Dániel Szalai, Gê Viana, Hans van der Meer, Hertta Kiiski, Ksenia Yurkova, and Sheng-Wen Lo
Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation, Mathieu Asselin and Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, The Library Project, 1-31 July.

Events

The Reading Room, The Library Project , 1-31 July
aemi Artist Film Screening starts, at aemi.ie
Artist Films Screening in collaboration with aemi (artists and experimental moving image)
OVER Journal issue 2 launch

Talks

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

Critical Recipes Cooking Channel

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

Online events – Straight to your digital device

6pm Wed 8 July — Launch: PhotoIreland Festival 2020
6 pm Sat 11 July — Launch: SITUATION #202 Mario Santamaría
6pm Wed 15 July — Screen Walk: Conor McGarrigle
6pm Sat 18 July — Launch: OVER Journal
7pm Sat 18 July — Screening: Theo Ellison
6pm Sun 19 July — Launch: SITUATION #202 Geraldine Juárez

OVER Journal & The Library Project

Francesca Catastini, Hiro Tanaka, and Theo Ellison
FUTURES European Photography Platform
The Tokyo International Photography Competition 2020

2019.photoireland.org

Events

Photobook Launch:Sarah Pannell, Tabriz to Shiraz, 23 May
Documenting the Everyday, with Sarah Pannell, The Library Project, 24 May
Photography for Non-Human Entities, with Alan Butler, The Library Project, 4, 11, 19 and 25 May
Reading Photographs: An Introduction, with Michelle Dunn Marsh, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Studio 12, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, 28 May
Visualising Power, with Lewis Bush, The Library Project, 7 June
Open Source Research Methods, with Lewis Bush, The Library Project, 8 June
Blow Photo, Fuse, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, Dublin, 13 July
How to be an Ethically Literate Photographer, with The Photography Ethics Centre, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 14 July
Performing the Posthuman Subject in Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 13 July
Anita Groener and Owen Boss In Conversation, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 25 July
From the Past to the Present but…to the Future?? with The Stairlings Collective, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 20-21 July
Wikimedia Edit-a-thon, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 16 July
Practice & Parenthood, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 20 July
Magic Insta Material: A Workshop on Selfies and Portraits (for general audiences), with Anna Ehrenstein, Rathfarnham Castle, 21 July
Triple T&G Photobook Launch: Steven Nestor, Colin Abbott, Brad Rimmer, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 13 July
Symposium: Photography and the Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5th July
thing, aura, metadata Artists Tour, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5th July
Performance Lecture by Cihad Caner, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5th July
Nadim Asfar Artist Talk, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5th July
David Thomas Smith, Arecibo, The Copper House Gallery, 5th July
Look at Italy!, Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwilliam Square East, Dublin 2, 6 June
“Foul, Filthy, Stinking Muck”, Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, 4 June

Main Exhibitions

The People of the Mud, The Library Project, 3 May-25 August
The Invention of Memory, Rathfarnham Castle,
New Irish Works, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
The Invention of Memory, Rathfarnham Castle, 5-30 May
Nadim Asfar, The Mountain, Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
Parallel Platform Exhibition:thing, aura, metadata. A poem on making. Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
Kassel Dummy Award Showcase, by Fotobookfestival, Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award Showcase, Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
Book and Magazine Fair, Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
Monica Alcazar-Duarte, The New Colonists and Ascension, Instituto Cervantes Dublin, 12 July – 16 August

Featured Exhibitions

From Ballots to Bullets, National Photographic Archives, -26 May
The Past is a Foreign Country, The LAB Gallery, 24 May-28 July
A Vague Anxiety, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 12 April-18 August
A Modern Eye: Helen Hooker O’Malley, National Photographic Archives, 20 June-November
The Queeratorial, Pallas Projects/Studios, 21 June-6 July
The Parted Veil, The Glucksman, Co. Cork, 12 April-30 June
Tokyo International Photography Competition, The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, 5-28 July
Pilvi Takala, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, 19 July – 7 September
David Thomas Smith, Arecibo, The Copper House Gallery, 6-13 July
Fix, Hang Tough Gallery, 21 July – 3 August