As part of our new Through the Lens lecture series, Colin Graham will discuss how photography in Northern Ireland responded to the Troubles and post-Troubles periods. It will examine the multiple ways in which photographers were able to turn politically-charged spaces into living places and found ways to critically understand the conflict. The lecture will discuss how, in the post-Good Friday Agreement period, photography in the North of Ireland has continued to interrogate ideas of community, individuality and the promises which politics has made about the future of Northern Ireland.

Speaker Biography:
Colin Graham is Professor of English at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland, and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.