IMAGES, DIVINE & HUMAN
Following Ulysses Deirdre Brennan
Photobook launch and signing
Thursday June 9, 6.30pm in the bookshop at Gallery of Photography Ireland.
Free admission, all welcome.
“Ulysses reveals what it is like to be a person – man, woman, woman-man, man-woman – inhabiting a sometimes unruly, but always mutable, body. The book deftly records all the sensual movements and machinations of mortals as they attempt to navigate their sliver of this planet. These same concerns resonate in Deirdre’s photographs.”
from the accompanying text by Nuala O’Connor
Taking Ulysses as a guide, Deirdre Brennan explores the changing face of Dublin over the last decade, capturing the rich tapestry of the city and its inhabitants in a series of striking photographs. The social, cultural, political and personal are intertwined in these images of a city again in transition.
Stephanie McBride explores Deirdre Brennan’s photographic response to James Joyce’s Ulysses in Irish Arts Review, click image for article.
About the artist’s
Deirdre Brennan
Deirdre Brennan holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design. Her work has been published internationally in titles such as The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, American Photography, The Sunday Times, Newsweek, Le Monde, Mother Jones. Sports Illustrated,The Hollywood Reporter, Stern, Marie Claire and Der Spiegel.
One of her photographs selected for Portrait of Humanity was featured in the Worlds’s First Exhibition in Other Space by The British Journal of Photography in 2020.
Exhibitions include Paris Photo, the Moscow International Foto Awards and The Tokyo International Foto Awards.
Deirdre was named “10 Women Who Wrote History With Their Cameras” as part of Visa pour L’image, The International Photojournalism Festival’s 20th Anniversary.
Nominations include The World Press Photo Master Class, The New York Photo Awards and PDN “30 Under 30″.
“Following Ulysses” was exhibited at the Centre Culturel Irlandais to coincide with the 100 anniversary of the publication of Ulysses in Paris in February 2022.
Storytelling, social justice and politics have always been an integral of her photographs. Growing up in Dublin city centre surrounded by characters and people that would not be out of place in Ulysses.
Nuala O’Connor
Nuala O’Connor’s fifth novel NORA (New Island), about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, was a Top 10 historical novel in the New York Times and is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2022. Nuala has curated the current exhibition at MoLI, –Love, Says Bloom. She is editor at flash fiction e-journal Splonk.
https://nualaoconnor.com
Published by Hi Tone books
Hi Tone Books are publishers of high quality books on Irish popular culture and photography.
Hi Tone Books is run by Dubliners Garry O’Neill and Niall McCormack.
Gallery information
Opening hours
Open 6 days:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
Open Mondays by appointment for ongoing education, artists archiving and training.
Closed Sundays
Closed for bank holidays and public holidays
Admission is free
Find us
Gallery of Photography Ireland
Meeting House Square,
Temple Bar,
Dublin D02 X406, Ireland