Island Talk 13
26th June 2024
Talk 1 - Jialin Long
Jialin Long is a lens-based artist was born in Beijing, China and based outside Dublin, Ireland. Her photographic practice focuses on issues in contemporary culture, uses new presentations strategies to explore social and political issues in an attempt to formulate alternative statements and positions.
In 2020 she graduated with a first-class honors degree in photography from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), winning many awards with her graduation project Red Illuminates, which has been exhibited and published with many photography institutions throughout Ireland, Europe, the UK, and Canada.
Jialin presented completed works; Red Illuminates and the Diversity Commission from Dublin City Council as well as ongoing work; Red illuminates II and Bouncing Up, Push me down.
jialinlongphotography.com
Talk 2 - Gregory Dunn
Born in London in 1960 and brought up at Deal on the Kent coast, photographer and filmmaker Gregory Dunn has been based in Dublin since 1990. For the past couple of decades Dunn, also known in some quarters as ’Stoneybutter' has been documenting the changing nature of the city. Armed with a modest compact camera he has a particular interest in the unconsidered. He has had three books published, Here: A Photographic Record (2017), Portrayed (2018) and Pandemic Spring (2021). Dunn’s project Play Stations (2014) about the changing nature of children’s play and the hegemony of screen-based activities was exhibited at IMMA and in 2021 the National Gallery of Ireland acquired a body of his photography for their permanent collection.
Talk 3 - Trish Lambe
Trish Lambe is Artistic Director of Photo Museum Ireland. For this Island Photographers' talk she gave an overview of the Museum’s past and upcoming exhibitions, artists' supports; outreach & access programmes (including our 25+ years’ work in the borderlands and N.I.) and our archive collection development plans.
She welcomed a discussion on the specific needs of Irish photographers, and how we might collectively lobby to secure funding for artists’ photobooks.
