The Nights start at 8.30, coffee, tea and cake will be served!
Dates: 8.30pm 8 & 15 July
Fish Bowl Gallery @ Exchange Dublin
Exchange Street Upper,
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Exhibiting artists:
Tomás Arthuzzi, Mads Bruun, Seb Dooris, Aisling Finn, Gergely Garamvölgyi, Daniel J Kelly, Fiona Killeen, Csapo Lajos, Mary O’Sullivan, Anita Radovnikovic, and Paul Reynolds.
Tomás Arthuzzi was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1987. In 2009, he finished a degree in Advertising from PUC-MG. He is a photographer passionate about technology, music and experimentation. Always searching the diverse, he seeks to unite in his work the common, the original, and the surprising.
Mads Bruun is a autodidact Danish photographer based in Dublin since 2008. The exhibited works are part of a Dublin series seeking to elevate the banal of ordinary public life around us to something more than a passing triviality, to reveal a condensed reflection of the now.
Opening: 7pm 1 July
Dates: 1 July – 14 July
Opening hours: Daily 12-10pm
Fish Bowl Gallery @ Exchange Dublin
Exchange Street Upper,
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Seb Dooris is a Dublin based photographic artist. The camera is integral to his work, documenting and creating his life and art. As the lines blur between life and art, an expression through photography emerges.
Aisling Finn is a Dublin born and based photographer. She is interested in the idea that we usually don’t afford our surroundings much attention and due to this, things of interest often leave little impression on us or simply go unnoticed.
Garamvölgyi Gergely – or Gary – is a photographer who is drawn towards mysterious urban landscapes. As a nine year old boy he used to go on minuscule adventures after school, discovering the town’s abandoned sites where the tramlines end. If he had a camera then, he would have taken similar pictures.
Daniel J Kelly is qualified in multimedia but he has always had a passion for photography. He always has a camera of some description with him everywhere he goes. He loves to go out for a day with the sole reason to take some pictures, sometimes he doesn’t see the point of visiting places at all without a camera! He has a big passion for travel and plans a few trips each year with photography in mind. There’s nothing better than arriving in a new place with a camera in hand to explore!
Fiona Killeen is an architect and member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. She has been interested in photography for many years but the recession has allowed to give it the attention it deserved. It’s digital photography that she has been putting her time into and the manipulation of the captured pieces to create something even more than the eye sees – to create art.
Csapo Lajos has worked for an art cinema and an international visual foundation as an organizer. Through this job he has met several photographers and filmmakers and seen their visually compelling works. It was an extremely inspirational environment which led him to buy a camera and start to learn how to create images. Images which may add or take away from the official interpretation of so called ‘Reality’.
Mary O’Sullivan’s chief interests are landscape and wildlife photography, although more recently this has extended to include documentary work. This image was taken at Stony Point in Bettys Bay near Cape Town, South Africa. She chose it because of the Jurassic quality of the landscape and the juxtaposition of the sunset and moon rise.
Anita Radovnikovic found Exchange Focus last year, during the PhotoIreland Festival. It allowed her to share interests, learn new skills and improve her knowledge about photography. At the moment she is interested in documenting our interactions within the world we live, our lasting connection to the place we call home, be it a slum, a luxury home, or a place that does not exist anymore.
Paul Reynolds recently rediscovered a childhood love for photography. As he has yet to settle on a particular style or genre, he is open to all influences – established photographers, the recognised greats and his companions in Exchange Focus. While shooting on the street his eye is drawn to the individual.
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SeeChange is a constellation of images created through the exchange and visual conversation between a collective of photographers. SeeChange began earlier in the year with each photographer submitting one ‘start’ photo to an online forum. www.flickr.com/groups/seechange.
In response, each photographer took an image from this photographic pool to inspire their own new image. These images, in turn, were fed back into the existing pool, acting as another stimulus and encouraging further responses. More images were created, triggering more group responses, splintering into more images. Inspiration and responses happened along multiple vectors, and through multiple touchpoints, creating a constellation of images. Over time, the collective has built up a multi-part visual conversation, embodying the spirit of Collaborative Change. The SeeChange exhibition is the result of that conversation.
Curator: Louise Marlborough – PrettyVacant
Opening: 8 July, 6pm
Dates: 8 – 29 July
Opening hours: 12pm-6pm daily
The Complex
Smithfield
Dublin 7
Sanna Fisher-Payne has spent the last ten years capturing the world through her lens. She is inspired by light and her Finnish roots. She is a professional photographer based in London, shooting mainly architecture, lighting and portraiture. Previous exhibitions include Hope (2009) and Smile (2010).
www.sannafp.com
Rosaria Forcisi started her photographic career in 1997 as an assistant for documentary and advertising photographers. In 2001 she began working as a freelance photographer herself, specialising in portraits. Curiosity and creativity have always motivated her to look for images that tell the stories of our time; a reflexive analysis of our feelings and social behaviour. In Italy she has participated in several group and solo exhibitions.
www.rosariaforcisi.com
Karen Forrester is a Dublin based artist. She has participated in various group exhibitions in England and Ireland and been published in Source magazine. She has photographs in St. Patrick’s Hospital permanent collection and had her first solo exhibition in Dublin in 2010. Most recently Karen has been awarded an Arts Council Grant.
Louise Marlborough is an artist and photographer. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with an Honours Degree in Fine Art, Sculpture. She then went on to complete a Certificate in Professional Photographic Practice at the London College of Communications. Marlborough has previously been granted two awards from the Arts Council in Ireland. For over ten years she has shown her work in solo and two-person shows and a series of selected group exhibitions. Louise currently lives and works in Dublin.
Agnese Sanvito documents places that are disappearing and objects in a state of abandonment. Her work has featured on the BBC, Time Out and New London. In 2010 she received the My East End award and previously the TNT Photography award and the Princess Cruise Escape award. Agnese Sanvito (b.1981) graduated in Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna with a First Class BA Hons.
www.agnesesanvito.com
Lucienne Brennan
www.luciennebrennan.wordpress.com
Motoko’s book The Shadow of James Joyce: Chapelizod and Environs (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2011) contains 55 images with original essays by Joyceans, local scholars and historians, which enliven these original photographs. They include contributions from Senator David Norris, actor Barry McGovern, Joyce scholar Sam Slote, and John McCullen, landscape historian and Chief Park Superintendent of Phoenix Park since 1984. Joyce’s celebrated textual editor Danis Rose writes about ‘The Strange Case of the Disappearing Bread: Bloom’s Budget for 16 June 1904’, biographer W.J. McCormack describes ‘Sheridan Le Fanu and Greater Chapelizod’, and the late Thomas MacGiolla and Raphy Doyle evoke their native environ. Japanese professor Shigehisa Yoshizu concludes with a commentary on Motoko’s photographs.
Curated by Dr. Stacey Herbert.
Booking required for the launch
Opening: 6.30pm 8 June
Dates: 8 June – 24 July
Opening hours:
Mon to Sat 10am-5pm
Sun 12-5pm
Last admissions at 4.30pm every day.
The James Joyce Centre
35 North Great George’s Street
Dublin 1
Motoko Fujita and her camera are both “made in Japan”. She started taking photographs to record stray dogs. After studying Joyce and moving to Ireland she pointed her lense at the picturesque village of Chapelizod. Simply, uniquely and enthusiastically, Motoko captures images – instaurations – that she hopes will equally intrigue the viewer.
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Justin Carville, author of Photography & Ireland to be published by Reaktion 2011, looking at work from Ireland.
Colin Graham, co-editor of Ireland and Cultural Theory, Macmillan and co-editor of The Irish Review, looking at work from Northern Ireland.
Valerie Connor, Irish Commissioner for the Venice and São Paulo Biennials in 2003 and 2004, looking at work produced in the last five years in Ireland, North or South.
A unique event!
Dates: 2pm 23 July
Price: 4 Euro on the door
Book & Magazine Fair
FilmBase, Temple Bar,
Dublin 2
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Eugene Langan has been working all his professional life as a photographer. Photographing people, food, still life and landscape, he works with a broad spectrum of clients, including graphic design and advertising agencies, and different areas of industry such as food and medical. His last exhibition in May this year was a series of portraits of people living and working in Phibsborough.
Curated by Denis Byrne.
Denis is a practising architect (principal of Denis Byrne Architects) and founding, board member of darc space, gallery of architecture. Working with the board of dark space, he has curated its exhibitions since the gallery opened in 2009. The gallery exists primarily, but not exclusively, to intensify the debate about the built environment.
Opening: 7pm 30 June
Dates: 1-29 July
Opening hours:
Mon to Fri 10am-5.30pm
Sat 12-3pm
darc space
26 North Great Georges Street
Dublin 1
‘Fluid, like life’; this unpredictable process introduces a new dimension to the traditional portrait. Starting with a square-format polaroid, the emulsion bends, twists, distorts and re-forms in a unique way as it lifts from the constraints of the original Polaroid film. Thus creating the first positive slide to create a negative print and then back to a positive print ‘allows it to peel its own layers back’, explains Travers.
The unexpected magic is that you can peer through the glass-mounted slides set against a light-box and on another wall the prints are hanging unframed as though drying in the original darkroom.
Each image is inimitable creating its own atmosphere and story. The only constant is the battered old chair against a garden wall. The subjects, the lighting, the different elements of the process, lend to create an unpredictable but beautifully compelling series of works.
www.mellatravers.com
Opening: 6pm 5th July
Dates: 30 June – 12 July
Opening hours:
12noon-7pm daily
BlockT
1-6 Haymarket
Smithfield Square
Dublin 7
Grogan and Connaughton met in 2004. They have been collaboratively exploring the medium of photography since then. Working together and in parallel, they have been mutually influential on each other’s practice. This is their first time exhibiting together.
www.groganphotography.com
Opening: 7 July, 6:00pm
Dates: 8 July to 12 July
Opening hours: 12noon-7pm daily
Block T
1-6 Haymarket
Smithfield Square
Dublin 7
blockt.ie
The inspiration came from renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Theaters series. In this project, Sugimoto set up his camera at the back of ornate movie palaces in New York and other US cities, opened his shutter at the start of the film, and closed it at the end. The light from the projected movie becomes the light source for the photographic exposure and illuminates all corners of the theater over the duration of the film. Traces Of The Real started as an exploration of how this idea could be applied to live music concerts and evolved into an attempt to answer the following questions: can one take a photograph of a song? If so, what would it look like?
The photographs were shot in a number of different venues: including Vicar Street, The National Concert Hall, Grand Canal Theatre, The Village, The Button Factory and Whelan’s. A wide variety of artists were photographed in this manner: including The Frames, Adebisi Shank, Villagers, Whale Watching, Beach House, The Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, Sea Dog, Yeh Deadlies and many more.
The images are created using a mix of old and new technology. They are shot using a large format film camera fixed onto a tripod on the balcony. This produces a 5” by 4” negative which is digitized to give an image of enormously high resolution. These images are then printed by fine art printer David Monahan and mounted onto aluminum compound (dibond) panels.
Hugh McCabe spent more than fifteen years involved in the Dublin music scene, before turning to photography. He completed the Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging at NCAD in 2010 and has participated in a number of group exhibitions. Traces Of The Real is his first solo exhibition.
Opening: 7pm 1 July
Dates: 1 – 25 July
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 5pm till late
(Closed on Mondays)
The Workmans Club (Upstairs)
10 Wellington Quay
Dublin 2
Dublin Camera Club has a rich history behind it. Founded in 1945, but with roots in the early 20th century. The Dublin Camera Club are headquartered in a dedicated three storey premises in 10 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2 which provides members with the perfect central location for the club’s comprehensive range of facilities and activities. Lecture meetings, two fully equipped darkrooms, a fully equipped studio, exhibition gallery, social events and the ever important competitions are just some of the year round activities on offer. In recent years, as photography and the visual arts have become ever more accessible by digital and electronic technology, the Dublin Camera Club has established itself as the city’s leading provider of evening classes in photography. The club has also contributed to the regeneration of the city by providing activities in the premises on most week nights, and at weekends.
Opening: 7pm 5 July
Dates: 5 – 26 July
Opening hours:
Mon to Thu 10am – 8pm
Fri & Saturday 10am – 5pm
(Closed on Sundays)
Dublin City Library
Pearse Street
Dublin 2
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