Trish Lambe is the Artistic Director/CEO at Photo Museum Ireland, Ireland’s national centre for contemporary photography. Her curatorial practice is particularly concerned with the role of photography in addressing social and political issues. Recent projects include the Reframing the Border, a 5-year cross-border programme, and the In Our Own Image, a year-long survey of contemporary practices in Ireland.

William Fagan is a retired public servant, photographer, and photographic historian with a diverse career. He served in various government departments, and played a key role in establishing the Office of the Ombudsman in 1987. He later became Director of Consumer Affairs for eight years. In 1998, he moved to the private sector as Director of Regulatory Affairs and Communications at Chorus Communications,  now Virgin Media, where he helped to introduce broadband and digital TV in Ireland. William also worked with the Qatari government, establishing a telecoms regulator that liberalized Qatar’s telecom market. An accomplished writer on photography, William is researching Ireland’s photographic history from 1840 onwards. He joined the board of Photo Museum Ireland in 2019 and became Chair in 2022. He is also a member of several photographic societies, including Dublin Camera Club, the Royal Photographic Society and the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. He is currently Executive Vice President of Leica Society International which has 3,000 members in 74 different countries.

Luke Gibbons is Emeritus Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at the School of English, Drama and Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and formerly taught at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and Dublin City University. He has published widely on Irish culture, film, literature, and the visual arts, as well as on aesthetics and politics. He was a member of the Board of Trustees at Photo Museum Ireland 2018-24. His many publications include Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (2003), Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonization, and Irish Culture (2006), and Joyce’s Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism and Memory (2015).

Colin Graham is Professor of English at Maynooth University. His books include Northern Ireland: Thirty Years of Photography, Deconstructing Ireland, and Ideologies of Epic. He was editor of The Irish Review from 2004 to 2020. During the Brexit negotiations he created the Twitter account @borderirish and wrote the book I am the Border, so I am, published by HarperCollins.