Eoin O’Conaill Blog Post
Eoin O’Conaill is a photographer who works on long-term projects alongside commissioned work. He has contributed to publications such as New York Times, Financial Times, Irish Times, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Telerama and has completed jobs for numerous commercial and fashion clients. His personal projects have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally (see exhibitions) and his work has been nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Photo Award, Prix Pictet 2011 & ‘13 and the project “Common Place” was the recipient of the Gallery of Photography Artist Award in 2009. Eoin is a part-time lecturer in photography and art at Griffith College Cork and holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Ulster and a BA in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport.
Kim Haughton Blog Post
Kim Haughton completed her MA in Documentary Photography at London University of the Arts in 2013. She held her first solo exhibition “In Plain Sight” at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin in 2015. This body of work led to her nomination for the Prix Pictet award, the global prize in photography and sustainability. In that year, she was named by TIME magazine as one of the top nine Irish Photographers to watch. In July 2016, her series “The Otherwhere” was exhibited at the Solomon Fine Art Gallery in Dublin as part of the group exhibition entitled “Landscape Rising”. Her images have appeared in publications worldwide including The Financial Times, Der Spiegel and Vanity Fair. Her image of horses outside an abandoned house became the iconic representation of Ireland’s economic collapse and was chosen as one of eleven images to to feature in the Guardian’s “History of Europe In Pictures 1945-2011”. In 2016, her portrait of Gabriel Byrne was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland. Her work is held in the National Archives of Ireland. Her second solo show will open in Spring 2017 at The National Museum, Collins Barracks.
Stefania Sapio Blog Post
Stefania Sapio is a photographer born in Rimini, Italy. She moved to Cork, Ireland, in 2001 where she still resides. In Cork she attended an evening course in black and white printing and a 3 years full time course in documentary photography. Her work was featured in Source photographic review in summer 2010 (photo cover). It was shown as part of Cork photo festival and it was selected by Belfast Photo Factory to be included in a group show in Belfast and in the Gallery of Photography, Dublin; it was shown in Cork as part of ASPECT and selected by Gallery of photography, Dublin as part of 30 Irish perspectives. Stefania Sapio had a solo show in Dublin in occasion of Photoireland,2013, and her photographs were published in New Irish Works, 2013. Her work was shown as a solo exhibition inside the Boole Library, University College Cork, from April to June 2014. She participated to Cork Fringe Photo Festival in 2015 and 2016. In May, 2015 she got a degree in Art History and Philosophy from University College Cork, with first class honours. She received a scholarship for a Research Master in Photography in 2016.
