BA [Hons] Photography + Visual Media staff members and three students selected for The Library Project Editions
TLP Editions are run by PhotoIreland, who have been promoting Irish photography here and abroad as well as running an annual photo festival in Dublin since 2010. TLP Editions series, already compromising of 66 publications, provides a growing collection of accessible and inexpensive publications featuring a broad variety of contemporary photographic practices. Running since 2017, PhotoIreland continues the publishing project in 2024 and 2025 to complete a second box with the next publications.
The work selected from IADT staff and students covers a multitude of themes and visual explorations.
Tumbledryer by Finbar Flanagan, is a visual document of the turmoil a man experiences following an unexpected separation. He finds himself struggling with his own identity as the insecurities of being a father and a mother begin to surface.
“It is a great honour for me to have my own work share this space in such a limited selection presented by The Library Project, and I feel like one of my big goals as an emerging photographer and artist has been reached.” Finbar Flanagan Class of 2024
Evanna Devine’s project Every Glove, explores the profound impact on children, of a community-driven boxing club in Newry, a region often marred by economic hardship and cultural division.
Sionnachuighim by James Kelly, translated ‘I play the fox’, is drawn from his deep memories and the memories of my peers to form a narrative that draws comparisons between the natural world such as the foxes to our world with a focus on youth and the freedom that comes with it.
Left Me With The Fears Of A Bird by Aoife Herrity, is an emerging body of work draws from time spent at Sweeney’s Bothy on the Isle of Eigg in late February 2024. This work considers themes identified by Seamus Heaney by exploring the impacts of burnout and avoidance, the desire for solitude, and creative pursuit. Visually, the work explores concepts of longevity, regeneration and permanence by considering the island, its natural materials, its wildlife and cycles of fertility, aging and decay.
The Cut Tells its Own Tale by Kate Nolan, is an ongoing discussion with her parents around their position as young Westerners working in the Middle East during the Iraq/Iran war, our differing and changeable memories and questioning the role of the family album within memory itself. PhotoIreland will work throughout the coming year with the artists to produce these publications that will be sold at The Library Project in Temple Bar as well as presented in photo festivals internationally.
“I am thrilled to see this beautiful and brilliant work by both lecturers and students selected for PhotoIreland’s The Library Project Editions. This accolade speaks to the quality and abundant creativity of the staff and student photography practice alike. Many thanks to PhotoIreland for their continued support and recognition of the photography programme at IADT.” Vanessa Gildea, Head of the Department of Film + Media.
Further details are available here.