Barry W Hughes | Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV}

PhotoIreland Festival 2013 | Main Exhibition: New Irish Works

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PhotoIreland Festival 2013 | New Irish Works

PhotoIreland Festival’s Main Exhibition is introducing works by 25 Irish Photographers:

Barry W. Hughes, Cait Fahey, Caroline Mc Nally, Claudi Nir, David Thomas Smith, Dorje De Burgh, Dragana Jurisic, Ethna O’Regan, Grainne Quinlan, Ieva Baltaduonyte, Kevin Griffin, Linda Brownlee, Mandy O Neill, Martin Cregg, Maurice Gunning, Miriam O’Connor, Muireann Brady, Patrick Hogan, Paul Gaffney, Robert Ellis, Roseanne Lynch, Shane Lynam, Shannon Guerrico, Stefania Sapio, and Yvette Monahan.

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Exhibition opening:
Limerick 3rd July 2013
Dublin 4th July 2013
Cork 5th July 2013 Continue Reading →

post SCRIPT – A group exhibition curated by Peggy Sue Amison

Opening: Fri 19th October, 8:00pm
Camden Palace Hotel, Camden Quay, Cork, Ireland
Running: Sat 20th October – Fri 30th November 2012
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm / Saturday & Sunday hours TBD

Humans can be more connected today than ever before; information of all sorts can be delivered in the time it takes to email, text, tweet etc… Likewise, the improved convenience of travel makes it possible to live in different places and experience the world more readily. Yet, overshadowing this ginormous, instantaneous ‘social network’ of accessibility is an unspeakable sense of existential disconnection. Continue Reading →

Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

Morokweng, Kalahari Desert, South Africa

Barry W Hughes | Steer Against Motions

‘Steer Against Motions‘
2012

Long before telescopes we witnessed the movement of celestial bodies, which Ovid and others recorded in ancient mythologies. Figuratively and literally, the meteors that fell to Earth gave us a better understanding of our place in the universe. For centuries now we have used lens based technology to view outwards, into the cosmos, so it is with irony that we now use that same technology to look down on ourselves from where we once imagined gods to do so. Continue Reading →

SMBHmag – You Are Here – Call for Entries

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You Are Here – Call for Entries by SMBHmag

SMBHmag is inviting all photographers living in countries different from where they were born to participate in a new exhibition for the PhotoIreland Festival (Dublin, Ireland, 1 -31 July). Continue Reading →

Flotsam and Jetsam | Exhibition at TACTIC, Cork/Ireland

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Flotsam and Jetsam – A group show at TACTIC Cork, Ireland

Opening: Wednesday 23rd May 7pm
Exhibition: 24th May – June 2nd 2012
TACTIC, Cork, Ireland

Flotsam and Jetsam, curated by Kirstie North, focuses on the found object, scrap and ephemera and the use of everyday objects and materials.

Featuring work by
Paul Chisholm // Simon English // Swaantje Güntzel // James L Hayes // Barry W. Hughes // Joanna Hopkins // Fiona Reily // Anne Marie Taggart // Sam Walkerdine Continue Reading →

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SMBH Magazine | ISSUE #9 Alternative Vision

Issue #9 of SuperMassiveBlackHole is out now!
Under the theme “Alternative Vision” SMBH Editor Barry W Hughes put together a highly interesting issue, as we think.

The contributors are
Aline Smithson / Andrey Bogush / Bríd O’Donovan / David Thomas Smith / Ellen Jantzen / Erin O’Keefe / James Parkin / Jamie House / Julia Schiller / Katrin Korfmann / Mocksim / Olivia Bowman / Peter Cibak / Tom Flynn Continue Reading →

Barry W Hughes | Failed Photographs

Failed Photographs (2011) is a collection of photographs taken from my family albums. In each case the photographs display an obvious visual failure to that which was originally intended. Photographs like these have existed in many family archives for decades, but until recently the use of digital cameras – and on the spot editing – has resulted in the decline of such mistakes. Continue Reading →