Ciarán Óg Arnold
Ciarán Óg Arnold is an MFA photography graduate from University of Ulster. Arnold is the first Irish photographer to have won the prestigious international MACK First Book Award in 2015 for his series I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed, but all I could do was get drunk again. His work was exhibited in Midlands - Photographs from the Interior group exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland (formerly Gallery of Photography Ireland) surveying the interior landscape of Ireland in 2008. He was shortlisted for the Photo Museum Ireland / Source Magazine Solas International Photography Prize and international touring exhibition. His artist book received extensive international acclaim and was widely featured to critical acclaim in the press worldwide in 2015. Arnold has recently exhibited at Seen 15 Gallery during Photo London, and Les Rencontres d’Arles, France. In 2023 he was awarded the inaugural Artist Development Residency Award to develop his new body of work Man Among the Ruins, which is featured in the No Place Like Home exhibition in 2023.

Enda Bowe
Enda Bowe's work is concerned with storytelling and the search for light and beauty in the ordinary. He presents his work through exhibition and the publication of photographic monographs. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Red Hook Gallery, New York; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the National Portrait Gallery, London; Fotohof, Salzburg; Fotomuseum, Winterthur; Dortmund U Gallery, Dortmund; Photo Museum Ireland and The Visual Centre Of Contemporary Art, Ireland.

Niamh Crowley
Niamh Crowley is a Fine Art Photographer from Dublin. She has an MFA Photography from Belfast School of Art. She creates work around the subject of mental illness. Her interests lie in ethical representation, in response to the historical photographic documentation of the mentally ill. Her interests also lie in the use of various methodologies within the creation and the presentation of her work, such as dual-narratives, repetition, and non-linear narratives, with the hope of drawing the viewer in, rousing curiosity and creating an engaging viewing experience.

Caleb Daley
Caleb Daley is a photographer based in Arklow, Ireland. His practice engages with ideas about landscape as a socially and culturally constructed form. He uses experimental techniques, such as sonification and data bending in order to produce new kinds of post-futurist image environments. Combining image and audio in a symbiotic relationship, his aim is to produce new kinds of imaginative experiences for the viewer.

Ciarán Dunbar
Ciarán Dunbar was born in 1982 in Dundalk, Ireland, where he currently lives and works. He gained a BA in Photography from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 2013. Having escaped The Troubles in the 1980’s, Ciaran’s parents, originally from the north of Ireland, settled in Dundalk. It is here, against the backdrop of this border town, that issues of identity, displacement and belonging have become the focus of Ciaran’s work to date.

Tatiana Evonuk
Tatiana Evonuk comes from a Russian-American artist family. She started her career with Performance Art at Prague Theatre Academy (DAMU). Specialising in the improvisational technique of “Acting with inner partner” for two years. Her path continued in the area of performance art. Tatjana has worked in multiple theatre companies that ranged from physical to classical drama performances. In 2017 Tatiana moved to Ireland where she did a two-year course in Film and Media at Limerick College of Further Education, and then she continued with her education at Limerick College of Art and Design, studying Photography, Film, and Video where she successfully graduated in 2022.

Clare Gallagher
Clare Gallagher is a Northern Irish artist whose work focuses on the ordinary, everyday experiences of home. A photography lecturer since 2003, she teaches on the BA, MFA and PhD programmes at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. Gallagher is also an academic researcher and completed a PhD using photography and video to research the hidden work of home and family. Her book The Second Shift was named as one of The Guardian’s top 15 photobooks of 2019 and her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Finland, Lithuania, Italy and Ireland in 2020. In 2022 she exhibited in Budapest as part of My Obvious Presence: Lived Motherhood in Contemporary Visual Culture, in two significant Irish survey exhibitions, and she curated an exhibition of feminist and queer Northern Irish photography which challenged the representation of the canon.

Anthony Haughey
Anthony Haughey is an artist and photography lecturer, supervising practice-based doctorates in the School of Media, TU Dublin,. He was Senior Research Fellow (2005-8) at the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design in Belfast School of Art, where he completed a PhD in 2009. His artworks and research have been widely exhibited and published and collected nationally and internationally. He is currently Decade of Centenaries artist-in-residence in the National Museum of Ireland and he is a co-editor of Socially Engaged Art Practice in Ireland: Contested Narratives, Places and Futures a forthcoming Cork University Press publication. A major exhibition and installation of his recent work will launch in the National Museum of Ireland in December 2023.

Jamin Keogh
Jamin Keogh holds a 1st class honours BA in Photography (IADT), a Masters in Art and Research Collaboration (IADT), and a 1st class honours  Masters in Social Science (NUIM).  Jamin has been involved as an artist, curator, and a visiting lecturer at numerous Irish third level institutions. His work has been shortlisted for the Inspirational Arts Award, and been shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). Moyross Study was exhibited in the 2018 PhotoIreland Festival, and was selected to represent Ireland at Unseen Amsterdam as part of the inaugural FUTURES Platform. The artist’s long term research project, A Constant Parameter, was selected by an international jury to be part of New Irish Works and was presented for the first time at the PhotoIreland Festival (2019).

Barialai Khoshal
Barialai Khoshal has extensive experience in photo documentary, news photography and videography. He has worked for Nai (Afghanistan Open Media Organization) in Kandahar as a trainer & meeting organiser, ADPRO (Afghanistan Development Peace and Research Organization), Associated Press, BBC Afghanistan Media Action, ITV London, Aljazeera English and The Diplomat Magazine. His work has been featured in photo exhibitions in Kabul, France, Toronto, Tehran, Jakarta, Stockholm and Washington DC. He also won a photo competition held by UNESCO in Afghanistan in 2017. Since arriving in Ireland, he has worked at Publicis Creative Agency Dublin, the Dublin Inquirer, and is a member of Scoop - a creative Refugee initiative in Ireland. He was awarded a Create Research Grant, supported by The Arts Council, in May.

Joanne Mullin
Joanne Mullin is a Northern Irish artist. Her work is a contemplative observation of space, memory and conflict, exploring how a place operates as an archive of its traumatic history. She looks critically at how architecture is an articulation of representation, highlighting the issue of power, control and gender. She studied photography at the University of Ulster, Belfast. Her work Refuge was selected by Photography critic Sean O’ Hagan for Source Photographic Review. It is part of private collections and belongs to the collection of The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She was also the Emerging Artist at The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast from 2013-2014 where she curated the exhibition Taking Place, bringing together four female photographers examining gender, architecture and space and exploring strategies used by female photographers of today. At present she is creating a body of work funded by The University of Atypical surrounding the issue of housing rights, the hierarchy within this system and its impact on the individuals involved.

Shannon Ritchie
Shannon Ritchie is a Northern Irish artist whose work focuses on the personal impact of cultural and political tensions in Northern Ireland. Graduating from Ulster University with a BA in Photography with Video, she went on to complete a residency in Belfast School of Art, as well as receiving the Emerging Artist Award from Photo Museum Ireland. As part of the Award she began developing her ongoing project Home / Sick, which continues exploring Ritchie’s complicated relationship with her home in a politically tense Northern Irish council estate.

Luke Ryan
Luke Ryan is a photographic artist from Dublin, Ireland. His work treats a number of contemporary issues such as surveillance, artificial intelligence, consumerism and modern technologies. The appropriation of digital images from public sources such as webcams, GaN systems or online databases is an important feature of his practice, as these methods have the ability to reveal the hidden, underlying networks in society. He collects images in abundance, shaping and moulding them into bodies of work. This working method was used for his books State of Security (2020), T.H.E.M.: The Heuristic Electric Machine (2020-2021) and Chief Designer (2021-2022). 

Vera Ryklova
Vera Ryklova is a Dublin-based visual artist. She is one of the current Annual Studio Residency awardees at The Dean Art Studios (Dublin). In 2022 she received the Artist Prize from Making and Momentum (Wexford). In 2020 she was one of five Irish Talents that represented PhotoIreand at FUTURES, a Europe-based platform for Photography. In 2017 she won the Hotron Art Works Prize for work by a recent graduate and in 2016 she was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize, which exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland. Vera presented three solo exhibitions, in 2021 at Custom House Studios + Gallery (Westport) and at the Irish language, arts and cultural centre Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich (Belfast), and in 2018 at Triskel Arts Centre (Cork). Her work has been featured in photography journals and art publications and is included in public art collections by the OPW State Collection, Trinity College Dublin and The Arts Council Ireland. 

Niamh Smith
Niamh Smith is a visual artist from Dublin, Ireland. A central focus of Smith’s work is concerned with the storytelling of the unheralded moments of the everyday. Smith’s work reflects on multiple concerns and situations concerned with home, national identity, nationhood and place-making. Smith works with photography in a creative sense, and performs and constructs atmospheres to create an expressive, intimate language that communicates to different narratives within her practice.