With this year’s selection for FUTURES, PhotoIreland brings forward a range of ages and experience that include two young artists from our graduate award programme RADAR. All artists selected are Irish or Ireland-based, and all demonstrate the vibrant diversity of practices on or about the island of Ireland, presenting a broad range of interests that define what contemporary Irish photography is today. The selection for FUTURES Irish Talents was carried out through the results of an open call, juried by the PhotoIreland team including Ángel Luis González, Director, and Julia Gelezova, General Manager, in collaboration with an external jury comprised of Adrian O’Carroll, photographer, collector and National Gallery of Ireland board member and Sarah McAuliffe, Curator, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts.

For FUTURES 2023, PhotoIreland has brought together artists from a broad range of ages and backgrounds, including work from new graduates, which reflects both a diverse range of practices on and from the island of Ireland, and interests ranging from the highly personal to the global.

The artists selected by PhotoIreland for FUTURES 2022 reflect the distinct visual languages and current concerns of Irish contemporary photographic practitioners. Each
artist embodies their local and personal experiences to propose universally empathetic questions, embedding their work in a global context.

Over the last decade, PhotoIreland has become a key constituent of the Visual Arts, offering from Dublin an annual photography festival, running a cultural hub in Dublin, publishing OVER Journal, and developing constructive channels with a strong network of organisations worldwide. PhotoIreland is dedicated to ensuring that a healthy ecosystem of practices is not silenced by lack of opportunities by offering frequent publishing and exhibiting opportunities to emerging artists.

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The artists selected for the fourth year of Futures demonstrate the vibrant diversity of practices on and from the island of Ireland, and present a broad range of interests, defining what Irish photographic practices are today.