Fiona Kearney assesses the artistic achievement of photographer and cleric Frank Browne, whose work is on view at Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin throughout December
Achill’s desolate beauty has inspired many Irish artists, not least Linda Brownlee who has captured the island’s youth caught between land, sea and sky, writes Stephanie McBride
David H Davison appraised the award-winning technoqie of pioneering photographer William Despard Hemphill ahead od a dual exhibition this summer
Fiona Kearney reflects on Jeanette Lowe’s exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin, which paints an intimate portrait of the residents both past and present of Pearse House Dublin
Sarah Allen introduces five shortlisted artists competing for the Gallery of Photography Showcase Contemporary Photography Award
“A sense of place is very important to me,” Sligo-based artist Seán McSweeney tells Brian McAvera ahead of his autumn exhibition at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin.
Margarita Cappock explores the nature of the intense and complicated friendship of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud
Revolutionary Ireland is a fine culmination to George Morrison’s distinguished career as a documentarist, writes Bob Quinn in his assessment of the renowned filmmaker’s latest achievement
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Eleanor Flegg examines Peter Rowen’s portraits of Irish designer-makers at work, currently on view at Dublin Airport to celebrate ID2015
Skellig cannot be seen primarily as a commercial commodity without significant diminution of its unique character, writes Paddy Bushe.
Stephanie McBride examines a collaborative photographic project that artfully captures the bravado and vulnerability of being seventeen
Stephanie McBride examines the aesthetic of photographer David Farrell whose method of revisiting his subjects and themes allows for a sustained critical engagement
In his seventieth year, John Minihan is still seeking the transient moment of creation, writes Fiona Kearney, as she reflects on his recent portfolio
While working as an intern at the NPA Mike Bors gained access to a remarkable collection created by talented amatuer, Sir Robert Ball, astromoner and scientific adviser to the Commissioners of Irish Lights
Stephanie McBride welcomes the reissue of Dublin: The Heart of the City characterized by Brendan Walsh’s elegantly composed black and white photography with essays by Ronan Sheehan.
Kim Haughton’s portraits, on view now at the National Museum Collins Barracks, reflect on Ireland’s multi-layered society at the end of the first century of this nation state, writes Stephanie McBride
In recording the traditional attire of female estate workers, Augusta Caroline Dillon of Clonbrock House, Co Galway, seemed presciently aware that her images would become historical document, writes Christiaan Corlett.
Michael Nolan’s images of a present-day meitheal invoke much older notions of kinship and identity, writes Stephanie McBride of the photographer’s festival sketches.
Ghostly traces of a Joycean city and people emerge as if from a palimpsest in Patrick Donald’s views of Dubliners, writes Stephanie McBride
Peter Murray finds similarities between the fictional character Kim and 19th-century photographer John Burke, whose path in Afghanistan, has been retraced by Simon Norfolk
David Davidson pays tribute to Bill Doyle, Dublin-born master photographer, who in these fond studies has left an indelible record of his country
Stephanie McBride talks to Mike Bunn about the craft of old school photography and his plans to establish an academy for photographers
Using a selection of germane quotations Rolf Loeber recalls his mentor, the late Maurice Craig; their literary exchange taking the form of a tete-a-tete.
Ahead of Dragana Jurisic’s solo show at the RHA in September we republish Stephanie McBride’s examination of the photographer’s 2011 show at the Droichead Arts Centre, studies of urban survival taken during the Celtic Tiger years, revealing Ireland’s struggling society.
Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography at Belfast Exposed and the MAC this summer highlights the medium as a highly-charged, critical artform that constantly questions its own role in the construction of memories, writes Stephanie McBride
Christiaan Corlett looks at a valuable, but little-known portfolio of photographs taken by Victorian doctor Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave, now in the collection of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Stephanie McBride examines the startling imagery of Richard Mosse who has made infrared film his signature medium