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© DARAGH SODEN, YOUNG DUBLINERS, 2014-16. SODEN, YOUNG © DARAGH 2016.photoireland.org 1 PhotoIreland Festival is brought to you CONTENTS thanks to our very kind sponsors, partners, and volunteers. 6 New Irish Works 8 » Mandy O’Neill, Promise 9 » Daragh Soden, Young Dubliners 10 IDEALS 11 Youngdon Jung, Blank Verse 12 Flâneur By Dublin 14 » Rik Moran, Stray Dogmas 15 » Esther Teichmann, The Seaweed Collector 16 How To Flatten A Mountain 18 Photobooks Exhibitions Irish 19 Featured Exhibitions Georgian LIBRARY, BOOKSHOP & GALLERY Society 22 Open Programme Exhibitions 26 What’s on today? Flâneur Network 28 List of Venues 30 Map of Venues Celebrating the 7th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, Volunteers: Alisha Doody, Carmen Sant Angelo, Clare Davies, Clare Steele, Ellie Berry, Ireland’s International Festival of Photography & Frank Brennan, George Voronov, Hanna Zajac, Jamin Keogh, Josef Kovac, Julia Ptak, Karine Murta, Katarzyna Michalak, Kaylah Benton Byrne, Kostas Epidis, Leyre Vicente, Pablo Jean, Pamela Doyle, Silvia Elorduy, Steven Maybury, Tim Kovar Image Culture. Vibrant, friendly, all-inclusive: Strategic Partnership Technical Team - Eoin Ghoulihan, Jamin Keogh, Frank Brennan A festival for all to enjoy! Julia Gelezova - Arts Administrator Moritz Neumüller - Curatorial Advisor Ángel Luis González Fernández - PhotoIreland Founder & Director 2 3 CULTUREFOX.IE GET NEVER READY MISS OUT The Arts Council’s new, upgraded CULTUREFOX events guide 24-27 Nov 2017 is now live. Free, faster, easy to use – and personalised for you. 4 Never miss out again. Organised by PhotoIreland and hosted at The Library Project. Check details at halftone.ie 5 MAIN EXHIBITIONS » NEW IRISH WORKS Selected by an international panel of 23 Robert McCormack, Roseanne Lynch, Shane Lynam, New Irish Works The Library Project professionals, New Irish Works 2016 brings you and Yvette Monahan. Every month from July 2016 NEW IRISH Launch: 6pm Thu 30 June a selection of 20 projects and 20 photographers to July 2017, a special presentation will be hosted at Running: 1-31 July WORKS representing the diverse range of practices coming The Library Project for two of the selected artists at Hours: Mon-Fri 11-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm from Ireland. New Irish Works 2016 is a year long a time. The presentation will include a display and project of 10 presentations and 20 publications a publication for each artist’s project. PhotoIreland Mandy O’Neill & that aims to highlight the great moment Irish will bring New Irish Works abroad to key events Daragh Soden Photography is experiencing. The artists selected are like PhotoEspaña, and to Paris during Paris Photo, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Aisling McCoy, Caitriona Dunnett, with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Dara McGrath, Daragh Soden, David Thomas Smith, The two artists that presented during PhotoIreland Eanna de Freine, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, Jan Festival are Daragh Soden with his latest work McCullough, Jill Quigley, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Young Dubliners and Mandy O’Neill with a long term Matthew Thompson, Miriam O’Connor, Noel Bowler, project entitled Promise. 6 7 MAIN EXHIBITIONS » NEW IRISH WORKS MAIN EXHIBITIONS » NEW IRISH WORKS Mandy O’Neill Daragh Soden Promise Young Dubliners © MANDY O’NEILL, PROMISE, 2013-16. © MANDY © DARAGH SODEN, YOUNG DUBLINERS, 2014-16. SODEN, YOUNG © DARAGH Mandy O’Neill’s Promise talks about Gaelscoil last year of the prefabs, as building was due to Daragh Soden’s Young Dubliners is a celebration hands. They have already inherited circumstances Bharra Primary School, established in 1994 and begin in 2013. In March 2016 the first builders finally of the unique character of Dublin’s youth. of differing fortune and will inherit the positive and housed in a series of prefabricated units. As far arrived. This work is the result of the four years she During a time of economic struggle in Ireland, negative effects of actions taken by the powers back as 2000 an inspector from the Department of has spent documenting the everyday and not so a housing shortage in Dublin and austerity that be. The subjects of the work are united in their Education recommended that planning permission everyday happenings at the school. It speaks to the measures squeezing public services and domestic youth but are divided in Dublin. Young Dubliners for a permanent school should be initiated great potential of these young people while posing budgets, the young people of Ireland’s capital presents young Dubliners presenting themselves, due to the “deplorable state of the temporary questions about the frameworks in place to help are championed in empowering portraits as they in their own environments. There is a consistent accommodation”. In 2012, the Irish government realise it. In a broader sense, it queries the ongoing make the transition to adulthood. These young approach in empowering the subject of each announced that it was allocating 35 million that rhetoric of ‘recovery’ in Ireland, and why it has taken Dubliners are at a time in their lives when they will photograph, however the setting varies. Around the year to replace prefabs with permanent classrooms so long to begin to resolve such basic issues. make decisions that will affect their futures and figure in the foreground, the extent of social division at over 200 schools. Gaelscoil Bharra was included may determine the course of their lives. Yet, they in Dublin is apparent. in this development plan. When O’Neill started this are subject to forces beyond their direct control. work it was with the premise of documenting the Their futures, their fates, are not entirely in their own 8 9 MAIN EXHIBITIONS » IDEALS MAIN EXHIBITIONS » BLANK VERSE City Assembly House The Copper House Youngdon Jung Launch: 6pm Fri 1 July Launch: 7pm Fri 1 July Running: 2-24 July Running: 2-31 July IDEALS Hours: Mon-Sat 10-6pm Hours: Mon-Fri 9.15-5pm Blank Verse The main exhibition in 2016, IDEALS, brings to Robert McCormack, Sean Hillen, Wawrzyniec PhotoIreland presents two recent bodies of work by rise apartment. There are images of gathering and City Assembly House fifteen projects of local and Kolbusz, and Yaakov Israel. Curated by Ángel Luis Korean photographer Youngdon Jung, Wondering scattering of diverse crowds, alongside detailed international photographers that, as dynamic González, PhotoIreland’s Director, the installation Wandering and Ants. Winner of the Portfolio Award images of concentration and dispersion of people flâneurs, explore the world and seek to improve it by underlines the inseparable relation between artists at PhotoIreland Festival 2015, this exhibition at The from their own bodies. These images show people’s highlighting socio-political issues we tend to ignore and society; and presents it as an extension of their Copper House Gallery is part of that recognition. lives and the direction of their bodies. However, in our everyday lives. Whether part of an artistic or everyday concerns and investigations. IDEALS is the These projects were born out of the careful like soil which scatters away when it becomes dry, a journalistic practice, there is no limit or guidelines second of projects programmed by PhotoIreland observation of his immediate surroundings; one the movements of people are also hard to use to to what can be achieved, as long as it is born out of engaging with the 1916 celebrations in Ireland, offers the atomised view of the human figure, lost define a clear outline. The image which disappears a personal desire to fulfil a personal ideal. The artists alongside Phototropism, which took place last and seen from his high-rise apartment, while the from our sight as soon as we take it, is crumpled presented are Agustina Triquell, António Castilho, April at The Library Project. These projects use other one seeks to understand the very experience like a clod of dirt in our hands. If the particles of the Elisa Gonzalez Miralles, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, contemporary photography as the vehicle to reflect of the familiar. The rhythm made by all different frame, or the photo disappear, a lot of these images Florian van Roekel, Gavin Mullan, Jörg Brüggemann, on the fight for equal rights and opportunities, the human beings in the same space; such is the would be scattered in all directions. Marie-Pierre Cravedi, Mark Duffy, Richard Seymour, basis of a democratic society. scenery which we can see from the top of a high- 10 11 MAIN EXHIBITIONS » FLANEUR BY DUBLIN MAIN EXHIBITIONS » FLANEUR BY DUBLIN Flâneur by Dublin Smithfield Square Launch: 7pm Sat 2 July Running: 3-24 July Hours: open all day and night As part of the 7th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, Flâneur By Dublin brings to the streets of Ireland’s capital the commissioned works of two great contemporary photographers. Displayed in a series of large cubes, their work disperses over a metal pathway installed in Smithfield Square. These large cubes become lightboxes at dusk, creating a unique display and extending the enjoyment of this open-air gallery throughout the night. The two selected artists for Flâneur By Dublin are Esther Teichmann (DE) and Rik Moran (UK). They both enjoyed a residency in Ireland earlier this year, engaging with the urban and rural landscape, and producing the present body of work. Esther and Rik will facilitate two workshops and a Paris talk during this year’s opening weekend, you can Ollot Lluérnia check all details and book your place online at Cortona Lisbon Nov Hamburg Onthemove 2016.photoireland.org London Photo Triennial Sep Nov Photo London Jul Mansfield Jun Flâneur By Dublin is part of a larger project called May Apr Derby Flâneur – New Urban Narratives. This is a new, Lisbon Format Festival European Union funded, 2 year long project, Kuldiga Kaunas Abrantes Mar transforming photographers into flâneurs and Dublin Summer school Sep 2015 Creative camp Aug requesting them to apply a new approach to PhotoIreland Aug Lodz Jul Jul their work within the urban territory.