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 sacrifice....
A project by PhotoIreland, OVER Journal launched its first issue in July 2020, and it has enjoyed a growing interest reaching rapidly all corners of the global market, from Zurich...
OVER Journal issue 2 Published by PhotoIreland256 pages184 × 245 mmSoftcoverISBN 9781916140424 Co-editorsAidan Kelly Murphy, Julia Gelezova, Ángel Luis González. Peer Review PanelDaniel Boetker-Smith, Dr. Justin Carville, Alejandro Castellote, Dr. Mohini Chandra, Irina Chmyreva, Yining...
Receive a FREE copy of OVER Journal Issue 1 with every €50 purchase in store for the month of July! OVER journal is a new periodical publication and online platform that proposes...
The OVER Journal jumper is a vegan brushed sweatshirt, 85% organic ring-spun combed cotton, 15% recycled polyester, fabric washed, light sueded, 280 g/m². Its sharp print is made with durable and flexible...
The OVER Journal Tote Bag is the ideal book carrier, strong and wide, made with 80% recycled cotton and 20% recycled polyester. The handles are wide and sturdy, not too long...
Food is a precious commodity, it has power, it can be a protest or an act of care, it can control, it nourishes us not just biologically, but socially and...
The Library Project Tote Bag is the ideal book carrier, strong and wide, made with 100% certified organic Fairtrade cotton. The handles are wide and sturdy, not too long at...
The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland Tote Bag is the ideal book carrier, strong and wide, made with 80% recycled cotton and 20% recycled polyester. The handles are wide and...
On the special occasion of Tsundoku Art Book Fair, PhotoIreland presents a limited edition tote bag that is the ideal book carrier; strong and wide, made with 100% certified organic Fairtrade cotton, this...
The Tsundoku Art Book Fair, PhotoIreland have made a Tsundoku sticker!
A rectangular adhesive sticker, 7.5cm long by 10cm wide. It is durable and resistant, ideal for both indoor and outdoor use.
Full set of the 100 postcards from 100 Views of Contemporary Ireland.Available individually here. Presented as part of St. Patrick's Festival cultural city trail in 2020, and to mark the first decade of PhotoIreland, The...
On the Verge is the third publication by FUTURES, a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across...
Prompted by the sudden junctures the arts and liberal societies found themselves at in 2020, Futures Photography presents RESET: Questioning the Image, the Market and the Role of Representation. Developed...
HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative aims to explore the new atmosphere of trans-disciplinary experimentation across divergent fields and sectors in the arts. We asked ourselves this: how is the...
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...
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...
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...
Published on occasion of PhotoIreland Festival 2021. What can a potato tell us about ourselves? What does it say about the construction of national identity? What role can new narratives about the potato play...
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,...
Wayside is a condensed, fleeting road adventure across Ireland from Wexford through to the well trodden lands of Ireland’s Atlantic coastline. Feeling incapable of documenting such unbridled beauty, Pannell remarks...
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...
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 remote...
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 the...
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 the...
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 in...
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:...
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% were...
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 destroyed....
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...
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. In...
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 underlies...
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 in...
Lay Her Down Upon Her Back is a body of work that examines the legacy of the 1880s treatment known as The Rest Cure. It was generally prescribed to women who...
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 began...
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 Ireland,...
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 memory...
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 to...
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 effect,...
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 interrupting...
The photographs in Verges examine the potential for everyday resistance through the growth and habits of weeds. Attending more closely to our ordinary surroundings and appreciating the familiar undermines the capitalist desire...
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...
Lebanon is a country that has been in a continued state of flux for decades. After a bitter civil war was fought for over 15 years, a truce was agreed...
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...
Get it for free, just pay the standard postage! This exhibition guide was made in consultation with a group of young people, who are alumni of The Ark’s Children’s Council. Over...
LACUNA looks at the contemporary experience of borders in flux through an engagement with the landscape and inhabitants of the small village of Pettigo. Pettigo straddles the border between Donegal...
Eloquent Proof is a play on the term ‘elegant proof’ used during a dialogue between Lynch and a research mathematician. From this Lynch saw the resemblance between how a...
“Touching from a distance, further all the time...” -Ian Curtis Exploration is deeply ingrained in the make up of human kind. Our struggle is that of contact. The Arecibo message...
This research based photographic project takes place in some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods surrounding Hyde Park, in the centre of London. These areas - Kensington, Mayfair, Belgravia, Chelsea, Holland Park...
“Single mothers are fallen women and grave sinners, whose children are the product of wickedness” – Father Cecil Beaton, Head of the Catholic Social Welfare Bureau, 1952 The severe and...
Following a family bereavement in 2013, O’ Connor returned home to live and work on the family farm. Tomorrow is Sunday is an on-going photographic project which engages with this...
In 2006, cavers made exciting archaeological discoveries in the Burren, Co. Clare. Within the findings, a poignant revelation was also made: the skeleton of a Bronze Age child. The archaeologists...
Mass Paths is a series of handcrafted photographs, landscapes of the Irish countryside embedded with absence. They portray the traces of paths walked by Catholics to reach illegal mass during...
The paradox of utopia, as good-place but also no-place was the starting point for McCoy's project The Radiant City. The utopia is an ideal creation of the mind yet it...
This photographic series combines imagery from four disparate sources: neo-classical sculpture, west of Ireland landscapes, found images and the studio setting. The processes are quick and playful, using simple...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Eanna de Freine’s already published book is available here. Tales from Beneath the Arches project is a visual exploration...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Enda Bowe’s already published book is available here. At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word Teannalach (pron....
There's a common visual vocabulary used to represent Dublin. Whether you agree with it or not, it shapes how the city is perceived externally. The narrative, which Lynam has been...
This project presents a collaboration between Maria Hinds, Matthew Thompson and Herman Wallace. It documents the life of Herman Wallace, a former Black Panther and Angola 3 member, during his...
Cottages of Quigley's Point makes use of photographed interventions in abandoned houses to question romantic readings of the rural Irish cottage. An exploration of the numerous ruined dwellings near Jill's...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Jan McCullough’s already published book is available here. Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions....
Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report called Operation Cleansweep issued in 2011,identifying sites in the UK where tens of thousands of tonnes of mustard...
Young Dubliners is a celebration of the unique character of Dublin’s youth. During a time of economic struggle in Ireland, a housing shortage in Dublin and austerity measures squeezing public...
Promise is the story of a school, of lessons on bar stools, pupils and politicians, a rat named Elvis, classes on the green, stifling heat in summer and damp in...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Noel Bowler’s already published book is available here. Union is a series of photographs made in the trade union...
***SOLD OUT******SET ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND LIBRARIES*** About New Irish Works Selected by an international panel of 23 professionals, New Irish Works brings you a selection of...
Not available for sale - to view please visit the PhotoIreland Collection upstairs in The Library Project, Temple Bar. This photobook was created to accompany the exhibition of the same...
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 Hill...
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 self...
Swimmers come to the sea for many reasons. For over a year, photographic artist Gerry Blake has been examining the ritual practice of regular sea swimming. Visiting more than 10...
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 Ireland...
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...
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...
Co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe in the context of FUTURES Photography Platform. It will be launched on November 14th at FOMU Antwerp. A special event between Trigger Magazine...
