Born in Dublin in 1969, Eamonn studied painting and photography at college, graduating in 1991. He spent much of the next two decades producing and publishing music, during which he also founded the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival alongside the record labels D1 Recordings and Dead Elvis. He returned to photography in 2008.

His debut photobook i, 2014, was described by Martin Parr as ‘the best street photobook in a decade’. This was followed by ON, 2015, and the award-winning End., 2016, which together with i, became known as his Dublin trilogy, culminating in a ground-breaking immersive exhibition at Rencontres d’Arles 2016. Though most of this work was produced in and around the Dublin city centre location where he has lived for over twenty years,

Eamonn’s recent bodies of work have taken him to the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland and to the volcanic landscapes of Extremadura in Spain [K, 2018], and back to his suburban home in south Dublin [O, 2020] . In 2024, he was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal from the German Photography Academy. Gallery representation:  Michael Hoppen Gallery, London.

Robert Ellis is an Irish photographer who completed his MFA in Photography from the University of Ulster in Belfast (2011), having previously graduated with a BA Hons Degree in Photography from Dublin Institute of Photography (2007). His photography deals with the notion of “home”, working with small rural communities, often relying on inherent or local knowledge to inform a sense of place. Recent solo shows include Belfast Exposed Gallery and Peckham 24 as part of Photo London. He was invited as an emerging European photographer to participate in Plat(t) form 2014 at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. In 2013 he was featured in New Irish Works as part of PhotoIreland Festival 2013, including the publication of the same name. His work is held in several private collections including the Northern Ireland Arts Council. He has also been featured on a number of online platforms including The British Journal of Photography and This is Paper. He is working towards a solo exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland in 2026

Irish artist Shane Hynan (b. 1976) holds an MFA in Photography (Ulster University 2019). His practice centres on photography with experimental elements in sound, video, collage, and sculpture. The metaphorical exploration of place, land and architecture is a significant subtext throughout his work. He draws upon conceptual, performative and subjective documentary approaches and works primarily with analogue photography processes as it enhances an emotional and intuitive connection with landscape and topography. He’s shown his work extensively in Ireland and received multiple awards from the Arts Council, Creative Ireland and Kildare Arts. He’s exhibited internationally in China, Germany and the UK, and was shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society IPE162, IPE163 and IPE166. In 2024 he undertook residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris) and Roscommon Arts Centre and was awarded both a Visual Arts Bursary and Project award from the Arts Council.

In his ongoing Beneath | Beofhód project Hynan reflects on the endangered bog habitats of his immediate post-industrial landscape in the Irish midlands. The work contemplates the transition in perceptions and use of peatlands in Ireland. Selected works will be shown in the RHA BogSkin exhibition opening January 2025 and a solo exhibition of the full body of work is planned for early 2026 at Photo Museum Ireland.

Shane Lynam is an Irish photographer based in Dublin. After growing up and working in Belgium and France, he returned to settle in Ireland in 2012. His work is a sustained exploration of the multi-layered ways the built environment shapes the lived experience of those who dwell there. Lynam’s first book, Fifty High Seasons, was published in 2018. He is represented by Galerie Bertrand Grimont in Paris who presented his work at Paris Photo in 2019. Shane was awarded the Visual Arts Bursary Award in 2022, the Curtin O’Donoghue RHA award in 2018, The Gallery of Photography Solas award in 2015, and selected for a residency at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris in 2019.  Alongside working on personal projects, Shane lectures at TU Dublin and Griffith College Dublin. He was an Artist-in-Residence for 18 months at Photo Museum Ireland as part of their artform development programmes. This has supported the development of his series Pebbledash Wonderland for exhibition which was presented in Photo Museum Ireland in 2024. His work is held in Photo Museum Ireland’s Collection. He is currently working on a new Artist’s monograph.

Steve Pyke is a renowned photographer known for his intimate and intense black-and-white portraits of extraordinary thinkers, creators, and artists of our time. Pyke created his first photographs in Ireland in 1980 and has maintained a deep, ongoing association with a place central to the development of his artistic practice. Widely hailed as a classic landmark ‘photographic novel’ I Could Read the Sky, created with the writer Timothy O’Grady was first published in 1997. In 2023 it was reissued in a new, expanded edition by Unbound. Pyke has spent the last 40 years seeing the world through a creative lens. Born in Leicester, UK, Pyke resided in London and NYC for many years. Steve now lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana and continues to work in Ireland and internationally. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Photo Museum Ireland for 2025. His latest series Scribendi: Irish Writers 1982-2025 presents Pyke’s landmark visual survey of leading contemporary Irish writers, playwrights and poets. The exhibition and book published by Lilliput Press will premiere at Photo Museum Ireland on 9 October 2025.  

Ciarán Óg Arnold (b. 1977) 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. Ciarán is currently working on a monograph.

Pauline Rowan graduated with a distinction from MFA in Photography from Ulster University in 2019. On graduating Rowan was invited by Paul Seawright and Peter Richards to exhibit in Dissolving Histories – New Narratives, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. She has recently been selected for New Irish Works IV, PhotoIreland and Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, curated by Photo Museum Ireland. In 2024 her series Under a Vaulted Sky was exhibited at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon and the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. A selection from Between the Gates was recently featured in the British Journal of Photography. Rowan was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary in both 2023 and 2024. She lives in Dublin, Ireland. Rowan explores sanctuary, as well as home, through landscapes, settlements and our underpinned relationships with belonging and abandonment. With a background in Fine Art and Film, her predominately lens-based works incorporate documentary as well as collaborative and performative elements. Rowan is interested in layers of history in place and home. Pauline is currently working on a monograph.

Daragh Soden is an artist and photographer from Dublin, Ireland.
His work explores universal themes that affect him personally. Soden’s Young Dubliners, a combination of environmental portraits and diaristic text, has been exhibited in Dublin, London and Paris. In 2017, he was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury at the Hyères Festival. In 2018, he exhibited Toulon, at the Villa Noailles in Hyères and at Rue des Arts in Toulon, France. In 2019, he exhibited Looking for Love in The Photographers Gallery in London. A series of analogue photographs, digital lightboxes and a super8 film, Looking for Love was part of the group exhibition Shot In Soho including work by artists William Klein and Anders Petersen.

More recently, Soden presented Ladies & Gentlemen in a solo exhibition at PhotoIreland Festival, 2022. He has self-published three bodies of work and his work has been included in numerous other publications. In 2024 Soden self-published his first monograph, Young Dubliners, launched with an exhibition at The Library Project in Dublin. Soden continues to make new work that builds and expands upon his practice as an ever evolving artist, committed less to any specific style or aesthetic and much more to an ideology of engaging, intriguing and challenging his audience and himself.

Lorraine Tuck was born in Recess, Connemara, County Galway in 1978. She studied photography in Sallynoggin College, and graduated with a B.A. in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport College. Since graduation, Tuck has spent much of her time making work that has been influenced by the landscape of Connemara. A long term project, Cillín/Children in Limbo is an extended meditation on the un-consecrated children’s burial grounds in the west of Ireland. A further series of landscapes traces the abandoned railway line from Galway to Clifden. In 2015, this was published in book form as The Whistle Blowing. In 2021, Tuck was commissioned by Photo Museum Ireland to develop Unusual Gestures into a full scale solo exhibition. The commission, funded by The Arts Council, enabled Tuck to devote time to exploring new directions for the work, and to experiment with new thematic concerns. In 2022 Photo Museum Ireland partnered with Galway International Arts Festival and the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny to develop a touring exhibition with support from an Arts Council Touring Award. Following its premiere at Galway International Arts Festival, the full scale exhibition was presented in Photo Museum Ireland, Roscommon Arts Centre and Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny. Tuck’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including The Arts Council, Office of Public Works, and University of Galway.

Born in Dublin, photographer and film-maker Tommy Weir has had a career spanning the arts. After graduation from Trinity College, he curated in the Douglas Hyde Gallery and went on to establish a gallery space at the City Arts Centre in Dublin. He was responsible for the early exhibitions of many leading Irish contemporary artists. In New York, after curating an exhibition for NYU, he set up an internal design department for BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was a project manager for Pentagram, working under Michael Bierut and Paula Scher, for their cultural clients. Returning to Ireland, he moved into film, and set up Janey Pictures with writer/director Marian Quinn. Their feature 32A, won Best First Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and the Tiernan McBride Screenwriting Award. Nominated for several IFTAs including Best Picture and won the IFTA for Cinematography. 32A had its international premiere at the Berlinale and went to over 100 festivals worldwide. Their current feature film, TWIG, was the Opening Night Gala at the Dublin International Film Festival 2024 and is currently on festival tour including Dinard Festival of British and Irish Cinema and Woodstock International Film Festival. He has produced several films for artists, notably Walker and Walker, including Nightfall representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale. He also produced several films, including Black Square, for his sister, Grace Weir, exhibited in IMMA. He was Associate Producer on the drama Mapmaker, by Johnny Gogan, for Arte. Since his MFA in Photography at Ulster University, he has participated in group exhibitions in Ireland, the UK and China. He has focussed on publishing, partnering with writers and poets.   His Cillín project, initiated during his MFA, resulted in a solo exhibition of his photography at the RHA Gallery in Dublin. This subsequently toured Ireland and produced a publication with poet and author Una Mannion. His subsequent book, Keshcorran, emerged from a collaboration with poet, Julianna Holland. His current project The Sea Crosses Here in the Winter,  involves poets and writers. He teaches film and photography in Atlantic Technological University. His work is in public and private collections in the US, Ireland and the UK, including Trinity College Dublin, The Arts Council of Ireland, Ulster University, the Eastman Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tommy is working on his latest monograph