Solomon Fine Art is hosting a major exhibition of contemporary Irish photography to coincide with PhotoIreland Festival 2016.

Landscape Rising is curated by former newspaper picture editor Jennie Ricketts and  features four established Irish photographers exploring themes around the 1916 commemoration, landscape, lifestyle and people.

The exhibition will include documentary, still life and portraiture, produced using both analogue and digital equipment. The prints will be rendered on fine art papers, metals and other fabrics, in some cases using the photographer’s own experimental methods of production with 19th century techniques. 

Joby Hickey

www.jobyhickey.com

Joby is a photographer and painter who lives and works in Dublin. He began painting after studying fine art at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art & Design and later trained in film.  Hickey has developed a personal style experimenting with old photographic techniques and often builds his own cameras and equipment.  Hickey’s skilled use of form, shape and monochromatic color creates deceptively timeless images.  He has evolved a trademark style of dreamscapes where silhouetted figures roam. His work has been exhibited in various galleries throughout Ireland including the RHA Annual Exhibition in Dublin and overseas in London, Paris and Berlin.

Mary Furlong

www.missmaryfurlong.com

Mary was the portrait photographer for the Alternative Miss Ireland from 1996 to its final show in 2012. Born in Dublin she began working in fashion design later returning to college to study photography. She taught photography in Griffith College, Ringsend CDVEC and St. Peters College, Killester and worked as a researcher/assistant to the Director in the Gallery of Photography. She was Perry Ogden’s photo assistant and studio manager for ten years and the co-ordinator and tutor of the Ballymun Photography Club, a Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane educational outreach programme. Mary mainly shoots medium format colour film specialising in portraiture, still life and landscapes. Her work has appeared in AnOther magazine, The Telegraph and The Financial Times. She also works as a community artist. Mary’s work, The Red Ribbon, 2015-16, is a series of six images from a larger project based around Irish Traveller traditional beliefs and superstitions.

Karl Burke

www.karlburke.com

Karl lives and works in Dublin and took up photography after studying Law at Trinity College and training as a solicitor in the Law Society of Ireland.  He went on to take a master class in photography in 2012 with the renowned UK photographer Simon Norfolk.  Using his skills in digital technology Karl’s work is experimental and abstract, often focusing on the profound effects of everyday scenes. His acclaimed work  ‘The  Harvest of Death v2.0’ which examines the imagined reality of war zones using computer games, is a critique on the diminishing line between the two.  The piece won the Fotofestiwal Lodz, Grand Prix, in Poland in 2013 and has been reviewed in numerous international publications including The New York Times Lens Blog, Photo District News and most recently The British Journal of Photography.  He has been exhibiting regularly since 2009 both in Ireland abroad and is currently exhibiting in the Or Gallery in Vancouver. 

Kim Haughton

www.kimhaughton.com

Kim is originally from Dublin but now lives in New York. She studied photography at Dublin Institute of Technology (D.I.T) and in 2013 completed an MA in Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts, London.  She shoots in colour and B&W, both on film and digitally and is noted for her collaborative humanitarian work with NGOs highlighting the issues of developing countries.  A multi award winning photojournalist through the Press Photographers Association of Ireland (PPAI), Kim’s images have appeared in international publications such as Time, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times, Business Week, The Guardian.  Her most recent exhibition ‘In Plain Sight’, an installation about the legacy of child abuse, took place at the Gallery of Photography in May 2015.  An earlier documentary series‘Shadowlands’ became highly acclaimed after an image of horses outside an abandoned house on an unfinished ‘Celtic Tiger’ estate was included in The Guardian as emblematic of Ireland’s 2007 economic collapse.

The curator, Jennie Ricketts is a former Picture Editor of The Observer Magazine, where she worked for seventeen years. She launched the Jennie Ricketts Gallery nine years ago.  Originally based in Brighton, UK, she relocated to County Wicklow in 2007. The gallery represents eighteen international photographers, both on­line and in hired exhibition spaces.  A recent collaboration with UK photographer Dr Lee Karen Stow resulted in the exhibition Poppies: Women and War for Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, as part of their Women and War symposium, is currently at Liverpool Museum until February 2016 and was displayed this November at the UN headquarters, New York.