TALENTS 2025
30 August – 5 October 2025
New Voices in Irish Photography at Photo Museum Ireland
Photo Museum Ireland is proud to announce TALENTS 2025, a major exhibition spotlighting eight of Ireland’s most exciting emerging photographic artists. Opening to the public on Saturday 30 August 2025, the exhibition celebrates the bold, diverse perspectives shaping contemporary photography across the island of Ireland.
TALENTS 2025 features new work by
Niamh Barry
Ishmael Claxton
Evanna Devine
Sabrina Faria
Roisin Lambert
Ben Malcolmson
Conn McCarrick
Tolu Ogunware.
Thanks to the Department of Culture, Communication and Sport – Cooperation with Northern Ireland fund, which supported the artist commission for Niamh Barry.
With special thanks to Brendan Maher for his dedication and support for our residency artists.
Talents 2025 Catalogue
The official publication of Photo Museum Ireland’s Talents 2025 exhibition, featuring eight emerging Irish photographers whose work spans powerful personal narratives, cultural reflection, and urgent social commentary.
From evocative accounts of the Irish borderlands, to personal narratives of home, memory, and loss, to critical reflections on the state of institutions and society, TALENTS 2025 encompasses a wide range of photographic practices and urgent issues. Taken together they show how photography can address contemporary concerns in a meaningful, timely fashion.
The artists developed their projects through Photo Museum Ireland’s comprehensive artists’ workplace residencies and commissions, which offer tailored support including world-class mentoring, training, curatorial engagement, and specialised production assistance. Residencies represented in the exhibition include the Early Career Artist Awards Residency, African-Irish Residency, and Diversity Residency, showcasing Photo Museum Ireland’s ongoing commitment to fostering new talent and amplifying underrepresented voices.
TALENTS 2025 is a celebration of the bold, diverse voices shaping the future of Irish photography. This exhibition reflects our ongoing dedication to elevating emerging talent and amplifying underrepresented perspectives, providing these artists with a dynamic platform to challenge, consider, and spark new conversations.”
Events/Workshops
Members
New Member Welcome Tour
6:00 pm to
Thursday, 11 September 2025
Photo Museum Ireland
Our Members Welcome Tour is designed to bring you closer to the people, spaces, and stories that shape Photo Museum Ireland. It’s ideal for new members and those looking to reconnect.
Led by our experienced team, this behind-the-scenes experience offers a deeper look at how the museum works—and why your membership matters.
Cost : Free for Members
Exhibition Opening
Exhibition Opening – Talents 2025
6:00 pm to
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Photo Museum Ireland
Join us at Photo Museum Ireland on Thursday 4th September 2025 to celebrate the official opening of Talents 2025.
Free
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Friday, 19 September 2025
Photo Museum Ireland
Explore Talents, a compelling group exhibition featuring fresh and original work by a dynamic range of artists currently working in Ireland.
Free
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Photo Museum Ireland
Photography has always been a powerful medium for reflecting who we are, where we live, and how we imagine the future. Lens on Change brings together the Irish Photo Network partner organisations to present the work of artists whose practices respond to significant issues of: climate action and diversity. Across three panels, artists and curators will share projects that ask how photography can give voice to underrepresented communities, bear witness to environmental transformation, and open space for dialogue and action. This gathering invites us to consider the image not only as a record of change, but as a catalyst for it.