OPEN CALL: African Irish Artist Residency Award 2024-25
Photo Museum Ireland is inviting African Irish artists and artists with African heritage living or making work in Ireland to apply for our new African Irish Artists’ Residency. Artists are invited to submit a recent photographic series or body of work on a coherent theme or subject.
New artist-in-the-community photography commission marking the Year of Disability Integration in Dublin City
Citizens of Dublin – Portrait of a City is a new artist-in-the-community photography commission marking the Year of Disability Integration in Dublin City, supported by the Office of the Lord Mayor, The Open Doors Initiative and Photo Museum Ireland.
We are Hiring! Part Time Museum Assistants.
Photo Museum Ireland is hiring museum assistants to facilitate the expansion of our opening hours and help build access for wider audiences.
Curators’ Statement – Changing States
Curators’ Statement – Changing States
As co-curators of the Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century, a group exhibition of Irish artists, to be presented at Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, we are very mindful of the context in which the exhibition will take place. Photo Museum Ireland, IKS Photo and Haus am Kleistpark have discussed this situation throughout our partnership, which began in April 2023.
New FREE Resources: Photo Album of the Irish Project
Photo Album of the Irish: Free Resources Explore our free educational resources designed to complement the Photo Album of the Irish project. Learn about types of photographic materials, from early daguerreotypes to recent analogue materials. Follow the...
Photo Museum Ireland announces two new appointments to the Education Team
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to announce the selected recipients of the African-Irish Artist Residency Award 2024-25. African-Irish artists and artists with African heritage living or making work in Ireland were invited to apply by submitting a recent photographic series or body of work on a coherent theme or subject.
BEALTAINE FESTIVAL PRESENTS: Teenage Kicks Rebellious Youth, Subculture and Street Style in Dublin (1970s-1990s)
Garry O’Neill’s Where Were You archive is a love affair born of frustration with repetitive and narrow Irish history consumption.
Global Premiere: Akihiko Okamura ‘The Memory of Others’
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the global premiere of The Memories of Others exhibition, photobook and film on the Irish work of Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura in April 2024.

Artist Ben Malcolmson awarded the artist commission in ‘Shared Histories – Diverse Views’
Thrilled to announce that Ben Malcolmson, a talented visual artist based between Belfast and Dublin, has been awarded the artist commission in the transformative cross-border initiative ‘Shared Histories – Diverse Views’.

Photo Museum Ireland pays tribute to Irish artist Ross McDonnell
The Board and staff of Photo Museum Ireland have been deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our friend, multi-talented artist Ross McDonnell.A filmmaker and photographer originally from Dublin, Ross worked on long-term documentary projects around themes of...