Belfast Exposed Gallery
Belfast Photo Festival
Photo Museum Ireland
Source Magazine
A new co-curated online platform showcasing contemporary photographic practices from the island of Ireland.
Irish Photo Network
Commissioned Essays
To celebrate the launch of the Irish Photo Network, essays have been commissioned surrounding the images showcased on the website. The essays follow different themes, considering the conceptual background of each project.
Intimacy
- Dorothy Hunter
“In the Being Numerous essay Ghost Stories, Natasha Lennard writes that “intimacy lives in those places we don’t reduce to the wholly explicable, even though we could”. Appropriately this sits without further unpacking, present in the background as she grapples with the potential of her belief that her bathroom ghost is real, while simultaneously believing that ghosts don’t exist.”
Conflicting Spaces
- Rebecca O’Dwyer
“A woman walks up to five-bar metal gate, places her hands on two parallel lengths near its centre and swings her legs up to cling onto two lengths on the left. Her body bisects the gate at a diagonal, moving upwards from right to left. Though her feet are entangled in the metal frame, her arms bear the brunt of being in this unnatural position, and eventually crumple under her bodyweight…”
Materialising the Abstract
- Kandace Siobhan Walker
“To make “real” that which lacks form but is nonetheless felt and experienced, artists must manifest visible worlds from the invisible. The seven photographers presented here centre experiences that we often struggle to name and navigate, from the interior complexities of nostalgia and desire to the legacies of conflicts that continue to shape our present political landscapes…”
Partnerships
Irish Photo Network is an initiative of Photo Museum Ireland, Belfast Photo Festival, Source Magazine and Belfast Exposed.
Funders
Irish Photo Network is funded by Gov.ie Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Organisation’s Funders
Partnership Organisations are funded by The Arts Council of Ireland, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council.
