Dead Traffic – Kim Thue
DEAD TRAFFIC was selected by Photo-Eye as one of the best books of 2012 This book is a raw and bewildering journey through the fringes of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone. Shot over the course...
View ArticleEternal Light – Katie O’Neill
Katie O Neill’s photographic perception on the surface appears innocuous as her images emerge serene in calm suffused light. Yet there is an underlying fearful narrative in these scenes, disrupting...
View ArticleMelancholy Witness: Images of The Troubles – Seán Hillen
“The photographs are like black and white time machines that bring back the desolation and danger of the Troubles. The images have a documentary accuracy, but it is the aura of melancholy witness that...
View ArticleAfter Mandela – Jan Dirk van der Burg & Stefanie Grätz
After Mandela (A Dutch Tribute) Jan Dirk van der Burg & Stefanie Grätz In 1991 the city of Zoetermeer built a tubular bridge across highway A12 in the city colours yellow and blue to connect the...
View ArticleScoffing Pig – Nozomi Iijima
“A piggery near my house is where 2 month old pigs spend the last four months of their lives. They are put into cages according to their size. All of them are fed to a weight of 115-120 kilos before...
View ArticleWorks That Work #2
In this issue we look at inventions as deceptively simple as the shipping container and as staggeringly complex as an intercontinental aircraft. The post Works That Work #2 appeared first on...
View ArticleWorks That Work #3
In this issue we look at designs from the past that have shaped the present, and designs from the present that will affect the future. The post Works That Work #3 appeared first on PhotoIreland.
View ArticleAnother Language – Mårten Lange
“A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.” Alexander von...
View ArticleCasa De Campo – Antonio M. Xoubanova
“Someone was here, somebody did this. Stuff happens here.” Casa de Campo is a photographic fable rooted firmly in the realities of Madrid’s largest public park. Casa de Campo sprawls, five times the...
View ArticleAlmost There – Aleix Plademunt
Understanding the world requires you to keep a certain distance from it. Things that are too small to see with the naked eye, such as molecules and atoms, we magnify. Things that are too large, such...
View ArticleRedheaded Peckerwood – Christian Patterson
“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land” - Luc Sante...
View ArticleThe Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography – Joan Fontcuberta
Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta is the 33rd recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. To celebrate the award MACK and The Hasselblad Foundation are...
View ArticleBLOW #10
“There are so many ways to describe the photographic genre we focus on in this issue of blow: urbanscapes, observational photography, accidental revelations, street encounters, urban scenes… street...
View ArticleI’ve lived in East London for 86 ½ Years – Martin Usborne
Joseph Markovitch has left London only once to go to the seaside with his mother. He loves Nicolas Cage, has five sugars in his tea, would have married a six foot two Hispanic woman but in the end had...
View ArticleAMC2 Journal #8
Issue 8 of Amc2 features a selection of full-length portraits, some black & white and others hand-coloured, made in Chinese studios between the 1930s and the 1980s. This serendipitous reunion of...
View ArticleNuotraukos dokumentams / Photographs for Documents
Vytautas V. Stanionis (b. 1949) printed photographs from the film of his father, also Vytautas (1917–1966), which contained photographs of Seirijai and surrounding districts’ inhabitants created for...
View ArticleRob Hornstra: DIY Strategies
Rob Hornstra: DIY Strategies On Funding Streams and Growing Audiences Programmed as part of the Summer Campus 2014, PhotoIreland is delighted to present documentary photographer Rob Hornstra leading...
View ArticleIl Distretto 9 del Chianti – Fionn McCann & Dario Castagno
Irish photographer Fionn McCann, a frequent visitor to Chianti, Tuscany, was struck by the plethora of photographic books on Italian cooking, landscape, history, art, and the complete lack of any on...
View ArticleSacrifice Your Body – Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge’s practice is that of a restless maverick and his constantly evolving visual sensibility has spawned a myriad of copyists in what has become known as ‘the new school of synthetic...
View ArticleBetween the Shell – Paul Salveson
Paul Salveson’s photographs were born in New York and Virginia between 2006 and 2011. Constructing images in domestic environments from items found in arm’s reach, the results are absurdist...
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