Thursday and Friday evenings throughout July and August 2023
Photo Museum Ireland

For free. For everyone.

Announcing Late Nights at the Museum – a special series of late evening events as part of our latest exhibition, No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography.

Join us every Thursday and Friday throughout July and August for an exciting line-up of talks, tours and workshops by leading Irish artists exploring creative responses to pressing social issues.

Against the background of Ireland’s current housing crisis, the artists featured in No Place Like Home propose new ways to visualise the complex realities of home and housing, placing these issues in a broader historical context, interrogating the distance between our notional ideas of home and the lived experience.

Events Schedule

Curators’ Introduction
7.00pm Thursday 27 July

To launch our special series of late evening events around No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography, curators Trish Lambe and Darren Campion will lead an in-depth tour to share insights into the diverse work by the artists featured in the exhibition. These artists propose new ways to visualise the complex realities of home and housing, interrogating the distance between our notional ideas of home and the lived experience.

Exhibition Tours
6.00pm, 7.00pm, 8.00pm Friday 28 July

Developing Sustainable Practices
7.00pm Thursday 3 August

This panel discussion with our Early Career Artist Award Winners (2022-23) will explore the projects that the artists developed as part of the Award, currently on show as part of the exhibition No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography. Based on the experience of the Awards, the discussion will also address how artists at the start of their careers can be supported to develop sustainable practices into the future.

Featuring Caleb Daley, Tatiana Evonuk, Shannon Ritchie, and Luke Ryan, moderated by Darren Campion, Assistant Curator, Photo Museum Ireland.

Exhibition Tours
6.00pm, 7.00pm, 8.00pm Friday 4 August

Jamin Keogh: Artist’s Talk
Thursday 10 August 7pm

This artist’s talk with Jamin Keogh will explore his project Moyross Study, an ongoing long-term investigation of the Moyross estate on the outskirts of Limerick city. The project focuses on the effects of a programme of regeneration which began in 2007 to address social issues on the estate. For this talk, Jamin will show a selection of images for the wider project and discuss the context of his photographic practice.

Exhibition Tours
6.00pm, 7.00pm, 8.00pm Friday 11 August

In-Conversation: Anthony Haughey and Lauretta Igbosonu
7.00pm Thursday 17 August

This in-conversation event will address Anthony Haughey’s project Citizen, a small selection of which is featured in the No Place Like Home exhibition. The conversation will focus on the time Haughey spent photographing at the Mosney Direct Provision Centre. He will be joined by Lauretta Igbosonu, a founding member of the Global Migration Collective. Igbosonu has engaged in a long-term collaborative partnership with Haughey following a chance encounter almost twenty years ago.

Exhibition Tours
6.00pm, 7.00pm, 8.00pm Friday 18 August

Exhibition Tours
6.00pm, 7.00pm, 8.00pm Thursday 24 August

Hanna Hrabarska In-Conversation
7.00pm Friday 25 August

For this special event artist Hanna Hrabarska will join us virtually from her home in Amsterdam, speaking to a live audience in Photo Museum Ireland about My Mom Wants To Go Back Home currently on show in our Artists’ Project Space. This moving series chronicles Hanna’s experience of becoming a war refugee as she and her mother make the journey from their homes in Ukraine to safety in Amsterdam. Hanna will discuss the process of making the work, which is still ongoing, and her plans for a new publication.

Please note: this is a hybrid event – Hanna will be speaking over Zoom. You can join online or attend the event in person.

Dr Orla Fitzpatrick, From Big Houses to the Celtic Tiger and Beyond: Representations of Home in Ireland
7.00pm Thursday 31 August

This talk will trace representations of home in Irish photography from the 19th century to date. Many of the themes tackled by contemporary artists and photographers in Photo Museum Ireland’s current exhibition No Place Like Home have their antecedents in earlier work. These include the lavish interiors of the ‘Big House’ created by the landed gentry and images made by social reformers to record slum conditions in the 1910s. The Celtic Tiger era and the subsequent downturn also generated many nuanced responses to what it means to call somewhere home.

Exhibition Tours
6.00pm, 7.00pm, 8.00pm Friday 1 September