Join us on this summer solstice longest day of the year when the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt toward the sun for a slow photography workshop day with tutor Darragh Shanahan.

You will be introduced to the wonderful world of handmade pinhole cameras, long exposures, darkroom processing and digital scanning. The main focus will be experimenting with long exposure for self portraits.

Open to all levels of photography knowledge from complete beginners up.

You will learn how to:

Shoot with a lens less handmade pinhole camera.

Process a Black and White paper negative by hand.

Print photographs from negatives in the darkroom and digitally scan negatives to create digital files.

Explore digital post production techniques on how to turn your pinhole negative into a beautiful piece of photographic art.

Tutor Bio:

Darragh Shanahan is a visual artist based in Dublin. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) Degree in Photography from TU Dublin. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland. Shanahan’s first photography book Love is a Stranger was shortlisted for the 2014 Kassel Book Dummy Award, which toured photography festivals internationally. In February 2020 he launched his first solo exhibition ‘Everybody Knows’ at The Space Between. In 2009 his band Dark Room Notes was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Best Irish Album. Between 2006 – 2008 he ran photography programmes at an after-school project of the Family Resource Centre (FRC) in St. Michael’s Estate that was exhibited in the Irish Museum of Modern Art and St Michaels Flats for Common Ground, an arts organisation working with artists and communities. His short film Andy’s Promise featured at the 2007 Darklight film festival at the Irish Film Centre. Shanahan is the Exhibition and Education Manager at Photo Museum Ireland, where he also runs workshops specifically for outreach programmes for people with intellectual disabilities.

Showcasing Creative Photography from our courses

To mark the creative success and share the enjoyment of the learning experience, a selection of photographic work from course participants will be displayed on Photo Museum Ireland’s recently launched Flickr platform.

By taking part in our workshops you are invited to participate with one image from your workshop experience. We will email you after the workshop with an image request. You can view the album at any time to see recent participants’ work.