Thursday 2 May

6pm Launch: PhotoIreland Festival 2019 at The Library Project (Dublin).

Futures Photography Night
• Exhibition Opening: Luis Alberto Rodriguez, The People of the Mud, produced during last year’s Futures residency at Cow House Studios, Wexford.
• Irish Futures 2019: Announcement of the 5 Irish artists that will join the Futures Photography Platform, and will be showcased in Unseen Amsterdam.

Saturday 4 May

12-3pm Critical Academy Photography for Non-Human Entities Seminar with Alan Butler.
Bookings opening soon. Running 4 days: 4-11-19-25 May.

6pm Exhibition Opening: The Invention of Memory at Rathfarnham Castle, with works by Benedetta Casagrande & Leonardo Falascone, Lucie Khakhoutian, Clare Lyons, and Yvette Monahan, curated by Julia Gelezova.

Friday 7 June

5pm Critical Academy Visualising Power Lewis Bush presents his PhD research, an ongoing reworking of John Berger’s 1972 book Ways of Seeing. Bookings opening soon.

Saturday 8 June

10.30am-4pm Critical Academy Open Source Research Methods Workshop with Lewis Bush. Bookings opening soon.

Thursday 4 July

6pm Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland at The Printworks, with the kind support of OPW; a temporary space for an on-going research project running in this first presentation from 4th to 28th July 2019.

The Museum will launch with three exhibition openings:
• Nadim Asfar, The Mountain, curated by Hester Keijser.
• New Irish Works, presenting works by Aisling McCoy, Cian Burke, Dorje de Burgh, George Voronov, Jamin Keogh, Phelim Hoey, Robert Ellis, Roisin White, Sarah Flynn, and Zoe Hamill.
• Parallel Photography Platform exhibition featuring works by Cihad Caner, Dries Lips, Roisin White, and Jessica Wolfelsperger, curated by Seda Yildiz.

Other events include:
• Tokyo International Photography Competition 2019.
• Book & Magazine Fair, first presented in 2011, with the latest releases by local and international publishers.
• Photobook Showcase, with selected items from the PhotoIreland Collection, Kassel Photobook Award, Photobook Week Aarhus Award, and more.

Friday 5 July

10-4pm Critical Academy Photography and the Museum: Contradictory Histories and Contemporary Perspectives, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland. Symposium organised by the research group Photography/Archives/Ireland in collaboration with PhotoIreland. Speakers include Photo-Historian Eleonore Challine, Independent Curator Alison Nordstrom, and Fotomuseum Winterthur digital curator Marco de Mutiis.

5-8pm Photobook Launch: Steven Nestor, Monte Cassino, Published by T&G. Followed up by the launch of the latest titles by T&G. Details to follow.

Saturday 6 July

Afternoon New Irish Works walking tour.

Afternoon Parallel Platform Events & Artists Talks.

Evening Nadim Asfar in conversation with Hester Keijser.

Thursday 11 July

6pm Monica Alcazar-Duarte, The New Colonists and Ascension at Instituto Cervantes de Dublin.

Saturday 20 July

Critical Academy Magic Insta Material A Workshop on Selfies and Portraits for teens with Anna Ehrenstein. Bookings opening soon.

Sunday 21 July

Critical Academy Magic Insta Material at Rathfarnham Castle A Workshop on Selfies and Portraits with Anna Ehrenstein. Bookings opening soon.