The TLP Editions BOX I contains the first 57 publications, published between July 2017 and October 2022, presented in a fluorescent yellow acrylic box. TLP Editions is a project by PhotoIreland bringing...
Wren Day, also known Lá an Dreoílín, is a traditional celebration that takes place on December 26th in various parts of Ireland, including Dingle, County Kerry. Traditionally, men and boys...
Sionnachuighim, meaning “I play the Fox”, is thought to be one possible origin of the word shenanigans, and in this work, shenanigans take centre stage. As a teenager, I entered...
In recent decades, Ireland has experienced a significant shift from a deep rooted Catholic orthodoxy. This project explores how traditional Catholic practices, such as mass rocks, reenactments, holy wells and...
In recent decades, Ireland has experienced a significant shift from a deep rooted Catholic orthodoxy. This project explores how traditional Catholic practices, such as mass rocks, reenactments, holy wells and...
Every Glove is not just about boxing; it is about childhood, diverse cultures and the unwavering support that these young athletes receive from their coaches and mentors. In a small...
'Of Petals, Pearls and Inherited Creatures examines emotional inheritance and female identity through an exploration of familial object histories and the intimate bonds between women in my family. Informed by...
'I participated in a residency on the Beara Peninsula and experimented with incorporating the land into my process. I walked to Ardgroom, along the Beara Way, in all weathers passing...
Alan Phelan has been working with the Joly screen process since 2018, one of the first stable colour photography methods that was invented by Trinity College Dublin physics professor John...
'This project is a series of analog photographs that I’ve taken on some of my moments in Ireland. I have merged them with objects that I owned growing up, things...
Puck Fair is an annual event held in Killorglin, County Kerry, with a history dating back over 400 years. The fair centers around the capture of a wild goat, which...
Embarking on the journey of single fatherhood, Finbar Flanagan grapples with the intricacies of assuming the maternal role for his three children in their rural Irish abode, all while upholding...
'Bull Island is a nature reserve in north Dublin. It formed over 200 years ago due to changes in currents in Dublin Bay following the construction of the North Bull...
Rich in uneasy contrast, East Belfast’s people once staffed the industrial heyday of the shipyards that dictate its skyline. Still the most staunchly Protestant compass point of a demarcated city,...
A Joining of Self is a site-specific portrait of fragmented childhood recollections of abuse, incorporating memories of different fabrics, dissociative experiences and phrases of manipulation that were used to threaten...
‘Blue is the colour of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world.’- Rebecca Solnit A body of work originally developed during a period of wandering, Distances...
'and then I ran employs self-portraiture, image and text, visualising the narrative of my grandmother’s recollection of escaping a mother and baby home, 1964, Ireland. Mother and baby homes were...
In the words of a friend Owen O'Carroll, "Travelling offers three-dimensional simultaneous perspectives on where we are, where we were, where we are going, a stereoscopic threading of all moments...
Showa35mm is an archive of 35mm film photographs taken in Japan between 1950-1989. It is named after the period of Showa era of Japanese history (1926-1989), in combination with the...
'In the tranquil embrace of my garden, where nature quietly reclaimed its space during the stillness of the pandemic, I found a world teeming with unassuming beauty. Through my lens,...
One Day examines the social, personal and political circumstances surrounding menopause using the iconography of the Triple Goddess, maiden, mother, and crone; focusing on the crone, hag, hedge witch, or...
Sarah Navan’s current and ongoing body of work titled Care in Progress is an in-depth exploration of coming out of a Bipolar manic episode and starting afresh. Sarah reveals the...
In 2018 and 2019 Helio León was invited to Marfa, Texas, by Marfa Open Arts Festival. This work is the result of his stay. These photographs reveal a fascination with...
"The Random View pays tribute to the towns of the west of Ireland. Thirty years ago—a lifetime—I first came to Ireland. Surrounded by sublime scenery I found ordinary towns, ordinary life,...
The front is trauma, that shapeless frontier line when you are at war with yourself, the nostalgia that traps your soul, condemns your dreams, confines your growth. That bed of...
The photographs in House Rules present participatory acts and events that unfolded over a fixed period of time in a family home. All images adhere to the parameters that they...
I have a complex relationship with my family and with Northern Ireland, where I grew up—it feels governed by a tension between distance and closeness. We think of our self...
In Dublin, the enforced closure of pubs and bars due to Covid-19 was soon followed by many taking the decision to board up their windows, suddenly giving a once vibrant...
Age twelve, I borrowed my parents’ box camera. The world opened up; seeing the land, watching the land, observing the land, considering the land, studying the land, perceiving the land....
The series of images examines the relationship between the photograph, body, and urban space in the context of globalised production and neoliberal governance. The work, set in Dublin and Helsinki,...
Matera is a symbol of rebirth, rising from extreme and prolonged difficulties. For decades referred to as the shame of Italy, it rose to become a jewel, nominated as a...
Growing up, I always felt that the only place to find adventure would be outside this island. I wanted to explore, to see new places, to have new experiences. And...
The series is produced from interactions with people and communities in the location of Moore Street Dublin – a historical quarter famously known as being the soul of city trading....
A banged up tube TV; a studded pair of roller-skates; a handmade budgie box. At first glance these goods might seem better suited for a landfill. But at The...
You write stories of love into places and then it so often turns to pain. These places that have held me and the people I love become places of loss,...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie. Wayside is a condensed, fleeting road...
Growing up in Dublin in the late 70’s-early 80’s, there were plenty of outdoor religious events such as the blessing of the animals, the cross being carried by locals in...
Flatten traces the human presence on the landscape of rural Ireland. It was created in and around Wexford’s Blackstairs Mountain during a residency at Cow House Studios. The artist focused...
There are nocturnal visitors. The quiet unseen life of the world when the traffic has stopped, and the planes are grounded. There is no more busyness now to distract...
The work F20.5 depicts the confrontation of the artist’s own childhood, during which her father suffered from residual schizophrenia. Through the reconstruction of Lizde’s own past and reinterpretation of the...
One Hundred Seconds To Midnight explores the tumultuous relationship between Breen’s father and himself as the father battles stints in and out of prison, as well as a battle with...
Alec Moore’s new work In Drift reflects on our commonality and kinship with life in the landscape. These explorations took place during the lockdowns and uncertainty that came with the...
Within their subterranean layers, bogs hold remarkable preservative qualities, with the power to absorb and reveal the past in material form. Beofhód, an Irish word translating as ‘life beneath the...
Following Catholic Emancipation churches were built across the country and with them grew networks of mass paths. A Well Trodden Path, explores the heritage of mass paths in Lackagh Co...
While balancing unpaid emotional and domestic labour with full time paid work, Emma O'Brien placed her photographic practice on hold. It was an indulgence she couldn't afford, Motherhood demanded this...
Hill Close Gardens captures the timelessness of one of the last groups of the detached Victorian pleasure gardens in the UK. The gardens date back to 1845 and were tended...
From the mid 70’s through the 80’s, Saint Patrick’s Day was very special for Frank Miller. While often he shot the parade as a staffer for the Irish Press Group,...
Paradise Lost forms a portrait of an idyllic environment, a place, which has offered refuge for humans, animals, and flora. The lake and surrounding woodland have been sold. There remains...
Situated in the struggle between the greed for riches and love for the natural world, this work centres on humankind’s desire to devastate and destroy for profit. It portrays an...
Paradise Lost commemorates a lake and woodland, untouched and left to grow wild. Home to an abundance of nature, it was a place to be alone, to reflect. It was...
Remembering the past always comes with an image or view attached. The Transcendence of Innocent Objects uses this premise to examine humankind’s continual forging of polymorphous stories. Exploring the...
In these works, Sibéal performs “healing rituals” as a means of healing the mind and body. This body of work is where we first see her exploring performance within...
Accidentally touch someone else’s fingers while going for the hand rail on the bus. Awkwardly side step to the same direction and do it a second time. Press the cross...
Red Illuminates, a multimedia work comprising still and moving images, explores the concept of culture in socialist countries and how loyalty to the state is cultivated. The catalyst for...
Let’s Take the Wrong Way Home is a collection of photomontage works representing landscapes that do not exist, an exercise in creation, destruction and after Vilém Flusser ‘playing against the...
Rumours, secrets and absent memories can affect the stories we tell about ourselves and where we come from. Conflicting narratives, faulty recollections and admonishments often bring unsettling questions to the...
In 2018, a brochure entitled “If War Or Crisis Comes” was sent to every household in Sweden by the government with the purpose of informing citizens how to act...
On 30 April 2020, District Magazine, Junior Magazine, and PhotoIreland announced the launch of A New Normal, an open call created in response to an unprecedented event in our life-times: we...
Male DJ's get booked more for festivlas and club nights than females on a regular basis. In the years 2017-2019, only 20.5% of festival acrys were female, while 70.3%...
This body of work was made over a short period of time spent in rural Wexford, Ireland, “in a place so overwhelmingly familiar to me, it was as though I...
South of Cancer is a topographical narrative in a non-specified location below the Tropic of Cancer. It is an environment of emergence and formation where knowledge of both the...
In Finglas during the 1970s, an area known as Dunsink, a wild place mostly used for recreational purposes by the local community for walks and amateur horse racing, was...
An ongoing series that conceptualises photography as an act of prayer with a central focus of the work being concerned with Irish histories. The work reflects on multiple concerns dealing...
The decade 1982-92 was a difficult time for Irish women. The 8th amendment to the constitution passed in 1983 made it not just illegal to obtain an abortion in...
During his two days in Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August of 2018, Pope Francis made three public appearances, culminating in a mass in Phoenix Park....
This work is a study of space, in particular the functional spaces of the theatre. Below the stage, they act as a metaphor for the staging of reality that...
Since the end of the Second World War and throughout the Cold War, devices have been developed which aim to affect the human nervous system, and ultimately manipulate thinking...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie.Lay Her Down Upon Her Back is...
Moyross was constructed in 1970 on the outskirts of Limerick City as a solution to a growing housing crisis. After the initial years of hope and optimism passed, Moyross...
What is it like to be in a relationship and be constantly separated from your lover? Fragments is a long-term black and white series in which Giulia Berto explores how...
Matera is one of the oldest cities on Earth. pre-dating the Pyramids and even Newgrange, this place holds an ancient memory, as well as all the trappings of modernity as...
The male psyche is a problematic entity, and when drawn out into the harsh light of analysis and discussion reels, yearning to retreat back into the darkness. In Modern...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie.Swimmers come to the sea for many...
Descendants is inspired by the connections between Spain and Ireland. The work is concerned with the myths and legends of both countries and those journeys which never wither from...
Busy on the streets and in buildings hidden out of view, congregating in everyday places, the Japanese in all those built up colossal cities work hard and long hours...
Ephemeral Uncertainty evokes the split second when rational thinking is challenged by a seemingly inexplicable occurrence of sensation, either visual or auditory. Such an occurrence can produce an uncanny...
Sarah Cullen’s work creates a psychological landscape within the domestic space in order to explore the experiences of pregnant people in Ireland who are faced with crisis pregnancies. By...
While this title is sold out, PhotoIreland can provide copies exclusively to libraries and collection, and for educational purposes only. Get in touch: info@thelibraryproject.ie. The photographs in Verges examine the potential for...
Marrow by Jane Cummins is a work-in- progress body of work created during a recent six-week residency at Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland. The series explores a new stage in the...
A huge labyrinth skirts the outer rims of the city of Caracas, climbing up and over the valleys. It is Petare, home to some two million people and the highest...
A once super rich oil nation, Venezuela is now home to some of the highest crime statistics on the planet, hyper currency inflation, a severely damaged health care system, and...
Reasons is a photographic documentation of the artist’s experiential perception through a meditative journey. Cristina Gismondi uses this form of photographic reflection in order to process the energy that humans...
The emergence of the tourist gaze was largely brought into being by the invention of the camera. The newly invented medium adopted the aesthetics of 19th Century approaches to landscape...
Every year, thousands gather during the last week of July to attend the Galway Races, Ireland’s historic horse racing event. The ensuing chaos provides cover for Galway’s youth to engage...
The King's Road was built in 1694 by King Charles II as a private thoroughfare stretching from St James’ Palace to Fulham. In more recent years, it became known as...
Proverbs is an ongoing body of work using photographic images and audio recordings that engage with the contemporary landscape of Uganda, exploring its layers of memory. While the age-old Ugandan...
