They will join the platform’s activities to present their work to international professionals and to network, amongst other opportunities that will be developed for them, including exhibitions, publishing opportunities, portfolio reviews, and more.
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Sarah Navan is a Photographic Artist living in Co. Clare. Sarah graduated her BA in Photographic Media from Griffith College Dublin in 2022. Sarah is in receipt of the inaugural RADAR Research and Development Artist residency. Having been selected by Inspirational Arts and PhotoIreland from nominations by eleven Photography programmes across Ireland. Her project Care in Progress has been longlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Award 2022 and was awarded the Agility award from the Arts Council in 2023.
Leon Nevill Gallagher is a contemporary Irish lens-based artist, living in Berlin. His practice lies in conceptualising the space between people and communicative technology, creating documents reflecting on the emotional and physical shift occurring as the surface of our communicational needs reposition themselves. Leon refers to his work as a hybrid ‘documentary’ form, drawing from fact and fiction to realise a reality that exists in-between.
Debbie Castro, an Irish Conceptual Documentary Artist currently based in London, UK, seamlessly intertwines photography, poetry, and moving image in her artistic practice. Positive, reliable, motivated working both in a team and individually. Enjoys building a community, organising and problem solving. Calm but passionate with excellent management skills working towards a budget. Educator with a Degree in Psychology and a MA in Photographic Arts. Freelance Co-ordinator and teacher for London Institute of Photography, curating and executing exhibitions.
Chris Finnegan is a visual artist and arts educator from Cork who works primarily through photography. His work explores everyday occurrences, mundane objects and events. Recently moved back to Ireland after a decade in the UK, his current practice centres on the home and suburbia; critically interrogating ideas of home-making, childhood and the domestic sublime. He regularly collaborates with his young sons. He has exhibited work extensively in Ireland, the UK and internationally, including; the 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Institute of Photography Penryn, GoMA Glasgow, Fringe Arts Bath, the LA Centre for Digital Arts.
Berta Mars is a photographer from Barcelona based in Dublin. Her practice is a mix of Portraiture, Documentary and Fine Art Photography, and often explores topics that involve human relationships to capture the essence of people and places from an intimate perspective. Berta graduated from an Advanced Vocational Training on TV and Media Communications in her hometown. In Dublin, she enrolled in Griffith College where she graduated in 2023 from a BA (Hons) in Photography. During her final year, she produced “The Loudest Silence” as her graduate project, with which she was shortlisted on the RDS Visual Media Awards and selected to be part of the RADAR program run for PhotoIreland.
