Photographer Pete Smyth and Gallery of Photography Curator Trish Lambe introduce 'LOCAL'
Gallery of Photography Ireland is delighted to present a retrospective exhibition by photographer Pete Smyth featuring work from his extensive photography project documenting aspects of life in Tallaght, West Dublin.
LOCAL invites us into a forgotten corner of contemporary Ireland - Tallaght, on the periphery of Dublin - where Pete Smyth has lived and worked for over thirty years. Smyth's uniquely intimate account captures the richness and humour of a community at the frontline of Ireland's rapid modernization. His approach is deeply affectionate, but without sentimentality, inviting us into private spaces, moments of quiet drama - and some wild nights in his local, the Killinarden House pub.
A bittersweet celebration of a community, and a soulful exploration of our universal need to belong, LOCAL adds a vital and previously neglected point of view to the canon of Irish photography.
LOCAL by Pete Smyth is at the Gallery of Photography until January 12th 2020.
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Founded in 1978, Gallery of Photography Ireland has established a reputation as one of Ireland’s leading cultural institutions. We are the national centre for photography.
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By drawing on a broad range of work from Irish and international artists, we show how photographers enable us to see the world in new ways and touch on the most profound issues of contemporary life. Our legacy as an institution means we are ideally positioned to consider where photography has been and where it might go in the future.
We actively seek to engage new audiences by promoting a greater awareness of the medium in Ireland – we want our visitors to love photography as much as we do.
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Local by Pete Smyth exhibition at Gallery of Photography Ireland, November 2019 - January 12th 2020
Watch Lucy Raeke's short documentary video of Pete Smyth's 'LOCAL' exhibition at the Gallery of Photography Ireland.
LOCAL, an exhibition by Pete Smyth, with a new publication featuring a text by artist and educator Ken Grant, will be launched at Gallery of Photography Ireland on 29 November 2019 at 6.30pm.
This retrospective exhibition features work from Pete Smyth’s extensive photography project documenting aspects of life in West Tallaght, Dublin. One of Ireland’s leading socially engaged photographers, Smyth has lived and worked in the area for over 30 years, producing in that time a uniquely intimate account of the place and its people.
LOCAL brings together Smyth’s renowned portrait series ‘Traveller’ and ‘View from the Dearth’, shown here for the first time alongside his most recent work charting street and nightlife in and around Tallaght. Aware of the complexities of his dual role of observer and participant, Smyth’s close, personal engagement with his subjects is visible throughout the work. The exhibition also reflects his political concerns and experiences as a community arts worker and social activist.
Smyth’s unsentimental representation of Tallaght and its people makes visible the social and physical transformation the area has undergone from a socially deprived outlying suburb to an urban centre with a strong sense of community. Collectively the works capture bittersweet moments of private reflection and public reverie. The exhibition, curated by Gallery of Photography, premiered at RUA RED Gallery in April 2019.
A bittersweet celebration of a community, and a soulful exploration of our universal need to belong, LOCAL adds a vital and previously neglected point of view to the canon of Irish photography.
One of Ireland’s leading socially engaged photographers, Smyth has lived and worked in the area for over 30 years, producing in that time a uniquely intimate account of the place and its people. Aware of the complexities of his dual role of observer and participant, Smyth’s close, personal engagement with his subjects is visible throughout. The exhibition also reflects his political concerns and experiences as a community arts worker and social activist. Smyth’s unsentimental representation of Tallaght and its people makes visible the social and physical transformation the area has undergone from a socially deprived outlying suburb to an urban centre with a strong sense of community.
LOCAL by Pete Smyth is a Gallery of Photography Ireland publication.
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REFLECTING 1916 – Trish Lambe of the Gallery of Photography
REFLECTING 1916 – Photography and the Easter Rising is a photography-based programme which includes a specially curated photographic exhibition and publication by the Gallery of Photography Ireland. The programme extends to street-based art installations at key locations around the city, outdoor projections, free public talks & tours, a book launch and workshops on how to preserve your family photographs.
The exhibition features photographs taken by eyewitnesses to this pivotal period in Ireland’s history, a number of which are being shown in public for the first time. A key album on show is the Smith Album which was contributed by an anonymous Dublin photographer. The Smith Album is the most amazing set of photographs taken by an anonymous eyewitness at the time which is an ordinary persons view of the week of the Rising, says Trish Lambe, co-director of the gallery. We've got an incredible picture of Moore Lane – 'Rebel Stronghold' – depicting the infamous address, riddled with bullet holes, on the day of the surrender.
A centerpiece installation of large-scale photos captures the destruction of Dublin and offers viewers a dramatic, immersive experience. This is contextualised by explorations of the use of photography to represent the idealism and growing militarism of the revolutionary generation. The wider use of photography as a vital tool for propaganda focusses on Roger Casement and his use of photography to highlight crimes against humanity.
Casement’s own documentary photographs from the Putamayo offer an insight into his evolution from British imperialist to Irish revolutionary.
A further sequence includes images of the widows and orphans of the Rising that were reproduced in the Catholic Bulletin in 1916, highlighting how photography was used to sway public opinion in the immediate aftermath.
There's also a fascinating series of photographs (annotated by Captain Wheeler, who took the surrender from commandant Mallon at the Royal College of Surgeons) showing guns, pouches and canteens: Included in this set is an intriguing photograph of the canteen belonging to commandant Pearse (see above) containing two large onions which he was carrying when he surrendered, says Lambe.
The final section looks at how the Rising has been represented in subsequent commemorations.
Accompanied by a catalogue REFLECTING 1916 - Photography and the Easter Rising with essays contributed by leading writers and historians, Brenda Malone, Orla Fitzpatrick, Professor Luke Gibbons, Dr Justin Carville & Angus Mitchell REFLECTING 1916 is an exploration of the role played by photography in shaping our memory of the Easter Rising.
The gallery's unique and compact interior space, a landmark building which was designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey architects in 1996, has proved a major challenge for staff in accommodating a large-scale exhibition of the likes of REFLECTING 1916.
In 2016, it is evident the gallery requires a more suitable interior to accommodate the ever-increasing larger shows: It's quite a tight squeeze – we now find that the gallery is actually too small to accommodate the type of exhibition we'd like to curate here, says Lambe. We've got a really rich photographic heritage, as you can see with the material on show on the walls. But what we really need now, in order to deliver on the potential of the photography, is a bigger space in the centre of Dublin that can really engage with the public.
Mandy O'Neill's 'Quiet At The Back'. A Brief Inquiry Behind The Scenes
Ilaria Sponda's documentary video on the making of Mandy O'Neill's 'Quiet At The Back' exhibition at the Gallery of Photography Ireland will give you an insight on the behind the scenes process.
Having done an interview with the Dublin based and award-winning photographer, Ilaria's experimented with the editing, mixing up the photos, the textures, the insides of Mandy's timely reflection on
photographs of children and young people going to school through the decade most impacted by the austerity measures that followed the global financial crisis and Irish banking scandals.
Many thanks to Mandy O'Neill to have been so open to make this documentary true and deep. Thanks all the staff of the the Gallery of Photography to give me such a great opportunity.
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For the first time in its history, the National Gallery of Ireland presents a photography exhibition, View of Ireland: Collecting Photography.
See works from the Gallery’s growing photography collection, which includes both vintage and modern prints: daguerreotypes, albumen prints, platinum and silver gelatin prints.
Explore photography in an Irish context with works by Irish and international photographers including Erich Hartmann, Amelia Stein, Nevill Johnson, Eamonn Doyle, Inge Morath and Jane Bown.
Here, co-curators Anne Hodge and Sarah McAuliffe discuss their favourite photographs from the exhibition.
View of Ireland: Collecting Photography is now open in Room 31 of the National Gallery of Ireland, and admission is free
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