MONOGRAPH is Photo Museum Ireland’s series of one-to-one meetings with photobook makers. Reserve your place to get in-depth discussion and expert advice on turning your photographic project into a standout photobook.

In a dedicated session, Photo Museum Ireland’s photobook experts will offer constructive feedback and advice on your dummy photobook.

Panelists:

Darren Campion is Curator at Photo Museum Ireland. In 2022 he co-curated two major surveys of contemporary Irish photography, The Politics of Place, and Photography & the Social Gaze. With Trish Lambe, Artistic Director, Photo Museum Ireland, he co-curated No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography, surveying recent photographic representations of home in Ireland. He has also written extensively about contemporary photographic practices, particularly around visual narrative, and the photobook. He has contributed to international publications and websites, including FOAM, Paper Journal, YET magazine, Photomonitor, and the Irish Arts Review, as well as essays and texts for several artists’ monographs, including Thomas Albdorf, General View (Skinnerboox, 2017) and Aapo Huhta’s Omatandangole, (Kehrer Verlag, 2019). In 2024 he curated Skin / Deep: Perspectives on the Body, a survey exhibition considering experiences of the body through photography and lens-based media.

Darragh Shanahan, Learning and Development Manager at Photo Museum Ireland, who has years of experience mentoring photography projects in outreach programmes and whose self-published photobook ‘Love is A Stranger’ was shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award in 2014. Darragh is Photo Museum Ireland’s Bookshop Curator.

We’re inviting presentations on projects that ideally are already realised in dummy form.  Each session will discuss a single project – you may bring examples of previous books or other projects, but please decide which project is the focus of the discussion.

Photo Museum Ireland Publications:

Shane Lynam: Pebbledash Wonderland – Exhibition Catalogue, published 2024
Changing Stages: Ireland in the 21st Century – Exhibition Catalogue, published 2024
Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others, published in partnership with Atelier EXB and Prestel 2024
Skin / Deep: Perspectives on the Body – Exhibition Catalogue, published 2024
Associations by Brian Newman, published 2023
Unusual Gestures Catalogue, published 2023
Diesel, by Ciaran Dunbar, published 2022
The Light of Day by Tony O’Shea, published in partnership with RRB Books 2020
The Lightning Strike and other stories…100 photographs from the Osman Collection, published 1999
Mass Isolation, published 2021
The Bank by Michael Boran, Michael Durand and David Farrell, published 2006
For Evermore, Fading Evidence of the Great War, published 2000
a very short space of time through very short times of space by Sigune Hamann, published 2008
Ten Miles Round by Jackie Nickerson, published 2008
Anywhere Please! by Padraig Murphy, published 1999
Under A Grey Sky by Simon Burch, published 2009
Representing Ireland, complied by Michael Durand, published 2004
Close to Home by Stephen Ahern, published 2010
Still by Patrick Hogan, published 2012
The Edge of Europe by Anthony Haughey, published in association with An Roinn Ealaion, Culture Agus Gaeltachta, published 1996
Photo Album of the Irish U.S. Edition, published 2016
Photo Album of the Irish Canada Edition, published 2021
A Modern Eye, Helen Hooker O’Malley’s Ireland, published 2019
Local by Pete Smyth, published 2019
Tomorrow is Sunday by Miriam O’Connor, published 2020
The Long View by David Farrell, Anthony Haughey, Jackie Nickerson, Richard Mosse, Paul Seawright, Donovan Wylie, published 2011
The Lie of the Land by Mick O’Kelly, John Duncan, Padraig Murphy, Anthony Haughey, Victor Sloan, Paul Seawright ,published 1995
Borderlines, personal stories and experiences from the border counties of the island of Ireland, published 2006
Reflecting 1916, Photography and the Easter Rising, published 2016
Everything is Possible, Qingsong Wang published 2015
Dream is Wonderful Yet Unclear by Maria Kapajeva, published in association with Milda Books 2021
Association, Brian Newman published 2023
Diesel, Ciaran Dunbar published 2022
Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk by Karl Grimes published 2007
Making Space by Noel Bowler published 2011
Tables of Power by Jaqueline Hassink in association with Menno Van De Koppel, published 2000
Monitor by Anthony Haughey and Paul Nulty, published 2001