Launch of the OVER Journal
PhotoIreland presents OVER Journal issue 5, a special FUTURES edition featuring artists and writers responding to the theme of Metamorphosis. This issue is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Creative Europe, and is guest edited by Světlana Malina (Fotograf Zone), Raphaëlle Stopin (Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie), and Emese Mucsi, (Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center).
Featured Writers
Emanuele Coccia, Colin Graham, Michael Hill, Hana Janečková, Aidan Kelly Murphy, Světlana Malina, Emese Mucsi, Ilaria Sponda, Raphaelle Stopin, István Virágvölgyi, Erik Vroons, Joanna Zylinska.
Featured Artists
Claudia Amatruda, Lyndon Barrois Jr., Máté Bartha, Benedetta Casagrande, Cristina de Middel, Eamonn Doyle and Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe, Marcus Gustafsson, Vitalii Halanzha, Zoe Hamill, Ksenia Ivanova, Emilia Martin, Anna Orlowska, Constantin Schlachter, Balázs Turós, Viktoriia Tymonova, Yana Wernicke, and Ada Zielinska.
Co-editors
Julia Gelezova, Ángel Luis González Fernández, Aidan Kelly Murphy, and Erik Vroons.
Guest Editors
Světlana Malina, Festival & Gallery Director, Fotograf Zone
Emese Mucsi, Curator, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
Raphaëlle Stopin, Director, Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie
Designed by Ángel Luis González Fernández
OVER Journal
A project by PhotoIreland, OVER Journal launched its first issue in July 2020, and it has enjoyed a growing interest reaching rapidly all corners of the global market, from Zurich to
Los Angeles. The publication, billed as 'The Critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture for the 21st century' is produced with the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
OVER journal critically focuses on aspects often overlooked that affect the discipline, zooming out to observe the whole scene, to analyse what exactly is happening, what power relationships are at play. It is about preventing the repetition of obsolete and flawed structures, as much as highlighting the work of those who are constructively expanding what we still call Photography into new horizons. More than a portfolio magazine, it is a space for reflection on new practices, new ways of thinking.
Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, FUTURES is a platform to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of it's selected artists and to bridge the gap between emerging and established artists.
Open Group – Repeat After Me 2022
The project Repeat After Me 2022 by the creative collective Open Group works with sound as the primary carrier of wartime experience. Instead of images of destruction, it focuses on the acoustic trace of conflict—on the sounds of weapons, explosions, sirens, and silence, which inscribe themselves into the bodies and memories of people living through war or forced exile. The ability to recognize these sounds is not a matter of artistic or sociological experiment; however experimental its aesthetics may be, it signals an effort to survive.
Too close to remember
The exhibition explores the theme of synaesthesis – i.e. a reaction of the body and mind and an experience that melds the sensory modalities of diverse entities existing in the digital, posthuman and technological environments. The project develops the discourse on various approaches to perception, especially in reference to the crisis of authenticity of human sensory perception that finds itself under pressure from contemporary power structures, surveillance and production.
Chaeyeon Kang – 28 days
We warmly invite you to the opening of Chaeyeon Kang – 28 days, an exhibition project installed in the gallery window of Fotograf Zone. The exhibition presents the winning project of the Fotograf Zone Gallery Open Call 2026.