Island Talk 9
22nd January 2024
Talk 1 - Robert Ellis
Reflecting on how his practice has shifted over recent years, Robert discussed his latest, most personal work and considered how this has impacted on how he approaches image-making.
Talk 2 - Dr. Orla Fitzpatrick
Collecting - Cataloguing - Curation
Orla discussed how her collecting of vernacular photography intersects with her role as a lecturer, researcher and writer.
Orla Fitzpatrick attained her PhD from Ulster University of the topic of modernity, modernism and Irish photography, 1922 to 1949. Her book Lost Ireland was published by Rizzoli and Pavilion in 2021, and she curated Imaging Conflict: photographs from revolutionary era Ireland, a major exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland which opened in October 2022. This looked at the production and consumption of photographic images in conflict situations. She is currently Ireland’s Border Culture Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
![Elinor Wiltshire, Protest against evictions, York Street, Dublin, 1964 Source: WIL 3[11], National Library of Ireland ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6548de347e82ed5f2468ebc1/1706036303428-IBJ7P7JXYBC5P48RFRJ9/62-wiltshire_ex_2010_3_337.jpg)
