Youth Panel
2025-26
Isabella Danaher
Isabella Danaher is a student journalist and photographer from Ennis, Co. Clare. She won the Photojournalism category of the 2023 NewsBrands Ireland Press Pass Student Journalism Awards and in 2024, the Portrait category of Photo Museum Ireland’s Young Photographer of the Year Awards. She was a judge for Photo Museum Ireland Young Photographer of the Year Awards and took part in the prestigious Centre for Investigative
Journalism’s Lyra McKee Bursary, in 2025.
Genevieve Ezyat
Genevieve Eyzat is an Irish-French photographer based in Dublin. Working across analog and digital photography, her practice explores themes of teenagehood, identity, and intimacy. She draws inspiration from her immediate surroundings of friends, family, and everyday moments uses a mix of media to navigate the space between documentation and imagination. She is a member of the 2026 Photo Museum Youth Panel
Henry James
Henry James is an American photographer based in Dublin. Working primarily with 35mm film, he focuses on landscapes, natural environments, and observational imagery, with occasional portraiture.
Henry has a particular commitment to traditional darkroom practice. For him, analogue photography is both a technical discipline and a way of slowing down image-making in an increasingly digital culture.
Henry is a final-year student at Trinity College Dublin and has served as Senior Darkroom Officer of the Dublin University Photography Association (DUPA) for four years. In this role, he has overseen darkroom operations and education, supporting sustainable analogue practice and mentoring students in film processing and printing. His work has been exhibited in a number of exhibitions at Trinity, and a photograph of his is held as a permanent installation within the university.
Elia de Leon
Elia de Leon (she/they) is a Mexican-American photographer and artist. Her practice revolves around work that is extremely personal to her and impactful to its audience. As a recent Photography graduate (1:1) from TU Dublin, their work has earned them a spot in PhotoIreland’s RADAR Residency programme, was shortlisted for Photo Museum Ireland’s Early Career Artist award and the Global Creative Graduate showcase, nominated for the RDS Visual Art Awards, and acclaimed in Source Magazine and the Irish Arts Review.
Maria Maiorschi
Maria Maiorschi is a Moldova-born photographer currently based in Ireland. Her work is guided by curiosity and close observation, focusing on anything that captures her attention — from everyday details to fleeting moments. She is a first-year student at IADT, studying Design for Film, where she continues to develop her visual language through photography and visual storytelling.
Alice May
Alice May is a Ukrainian photographer based in Ireland, working primarily with portraiture. Her practice explores connection and identity, documenting people and relationships in ways
that reflect how they choose to see and remember themselves. She works across artistic and commercial contexts, collaborating with actors, brands, and creatives. She is currently
studying Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin and is a member of the 2026 Photo Museum Ireland Youth Panel.
Laura Nadal
Laura Nadal is a French artist and photographer based in Dublin. Her analogue work explores belonging, heritage, and family through a personal diary-like lens. A final year student at Griffith College Dublin, she has been nominated for the 2025 SMEDIAs Photographer of the Year, published in The Dublin 8 Magazine, and featured in the collaborative project PhotoWorks 2025. Laura is part of Photo Museum Ireland Youth Panel 2026 and is the Social Media Coordinator of Ireland Analog.
Ella O'Brien
Ella O’Brien is a Dublin-based photographer with a focus on fashion, editorial and documentary
photography. Her work reflects an affinity for analog photography and its tactile process while exploring
identity, memory and connection. Her editorial work, collaborating with emerging designers and stylists from Dublin, London and Northern Ireland has been included in Dublin, London and New York-based Magazines 17:24 (Covershoot), RollUp Mag (covershoot), Top Posters, SleazeMag and Ethereal Magazine.
She was the resident photographer for Trinity Magazine TN2, producing each of their 24/25 covers, Misc Magazine covers, and the cover of Trinity’s first fashion magazine Dagda.
Jim Xi Johnson
Jim Xi Johnson is an Irish-Malaysian photographer based in Kildare. Primarily working with 35mm film, he graduated from DCU in Communication Studies, during which he received an Arts Bursary in 2022. His work has been featured in places including Outset Gallery, Rua Red and the Waterford Gallery of Art. He is also a member of the 2026 Photo Museum Ireland Youth Panel.
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