The latest chapter of Photo Museum Ireland's year-long In Our Own Image exhibition programme, Photography & the Social Gaze is a landmark survey which undertakes a critical reframing of the way Irish life has been represented through photography. Enjoy a gallery of selected work above.
The exhibition explores how photographers have used their medium to reflect on immense social change in Ireland over recent decades. The featured photographers engage with this profound shift, which encompasses our understanding of gender, family, community, and the place of religion, by asking difficult questions of the world around them, even of their own lives and values.
Moving away from traditional documentary towards more socially-engaged and inclusive ways of thinking about the medium, the selected works touch on the most pressing issues around Irish identity and history, coming to terms with the legacies of the past and the challenges of the future.
Featured artists in Photography & the Social Gaze include Ciaran Óg Arnold, Charlie Beare, Enda Bowe, Ala Buisir, Niamh Crowley, Dorje de Burgh, Dennis Dinneen, Eamonn Doyle, Mark Duffy, Tessy Ehiguese, Diego Fabro, David Farrell, Clare Gallagher, Ruth Gonsalves Moore, Richard Gosnold, Ailbhe Greaney, Anthony Haughey, Tobi Isaac-Irein, Dragana Jurišić, Jialin Long, Alen MacWeeney, Gareth McConnell, Martin McGagh, Tony Murray, Brian Newman, Mandy O'Neill, Tony O’Shea, Pauline Rowan, Paul Seawright, Pete Smyth, Pádraig Spillane, and Donovan Wylie.
Photography & the Social Gaze is at Photo Museum Ireland until November 5th - find out more here.
