The nineteenth-century Italian aristocrat Virginia Oldoini, Countess de Castiglione, has been cast in many lights: narcissist, courtesan, spy, exhibitionist. In the photo studio of Mayer & Pierson, she played all these parts and one more—the role of self-portraitist.
The 2026 exhibition features Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian and Rene Matić – four artists whose practices span continents and generations, yet converge around urgent social and cultural questions.
View from Rock of Dunamase, Co Laois
Delighted to be awardee of @researchireland.ie + Embassy of France Ulysses Award for the project ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Franco-Irish Photographs of the Irish Revolutionary Period’ with @clairdubois.bsky.social at University of Lille + Síobhra Aiken and Mark O’Rawe Queens University Belfast
Tributes have been paid to the war photographer Paul Conroy who has died at the age of 61.
He covered conflicts around the world and was wounded in the Syrian army's bombardment of Homs, which killed his Sunday Times colleague Marie Colvin in 2012.
Mullaghmeen Forest, Co Westmeath
If anyone is in Dublin on Tuesday March 3rd IADT are hosting a talk by Gail Day and Steve Edwards on their recently published book Amphibious Realities - details below 👇
Photographer Samuel Laurence Cunnane travels around the world by van, capturing fleeting scenes that result in luminous images, revealing remarkable beauty hidden in plain sight. The Irish artist makes his London debut at Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery with Blue Road, …
“These images will open up the space for much-needed debate around the politics of memory in contemporary Greece which for so long have been overshadowed by the divisions of the civil war.”
View from Rock of Dunamase, Co Laois
“Some of these works will appear alongside painting, sculpture and historical objects. Photography can be a lens on the world, showing us social, political and economic circumstances in ways that painting or sculpture alone cannot.”
Ruins, Rock of Dunamase, Co Laois
The images in Lonely Are All the Bridges were made in Ukraine by Robin Hinsch over more than a decade. The photographer first visited Ukraine in 2010. His sustained interest in this complex country compelled him to return many times to photograph the landscape and the people he encountered.
Thank you!
Mullaghmeen Forest, Co Westmeath
Family photos, town reports, forgotten newspapers — fragments of lives slipping out of memory. A new book collects this material, alongside photos taken by Pia and Jesse while scavenging for material and images from Pia’s own family archive.
His moribund visions turn open spaces into oppressive, brooding environments stalked by ghosts. If there’s beauty in this darkness, McCullin makes it hard to see.
“In my neighbourhood, there were Black photojournalists and my mom had a beauty shop so I grew up looking at Ebony, Jet, and Life magazine. I was curious why they were all missing from the history books, and I felt it was important these names needed to be known.”
Mullaghmeen Forest, Co Westmeath
A demonstration that the contemporary celebrity Irish-Diaspora in UK are not immune to the echos of Victorian anti-Irish prejudice
…, yet the deeply personal nature of her experiments in the darkroom, not least in devising ingenious ways of printing her photographs by hand and of producing images as photograms without recourse to a camera, evokes the intimacy and idiosyncrasy of craftsmanship.
As speaker and “securer,” Van Der Zee and his images attend to the belief that death is not an end, nor a terminal point, but rather a threshold, a passageway interminably open on both ends.
Glendalough Valley, Co Wicklow
Heart says 2nd, head 3rd; 3 weeks back to back will be attritional and a win away against France or England is a big ask
Relying too much on Aki and Lowe to perform as big game players; watched Baloucoune in LvU - great athlete, pure speed but came out 2nd best in collision with Lowe - Joshua Kenny is ‘the’ form winger - Baloucoune and Kenny on the wings would be an exciting prospect - both 6ft 3, 100+kg, power+speed!
The selection has become risk adverse; games are lost on mistakes-in defence and attack-suspect coaches not confident on how some new/young players will perform stepping up a level to international rugby; having said that McCarthy’s, Clarkson, Boyle performed well; Edogbo+Ward Bros. are the future
And in that shift, the exhibition speaks not only to MENA communities but to many others whose histories in the city have been under-recognised. These are stories of contribution, erasure, cultural work carried out quietly, brilliance that has gone uncredited.
I only met Colin Ford once very briefly at the start of my career at a conference in Bradford - never fully received recognition for how influential he was in shaping early photography history in the UK during the 1980s/90s
Glendalough, Co Wicklow
