We are delighted to welcome the Jill Freedman Foundation to Dublin. Jill Freedman was a highly respected New York City documentary photographer whose award-winning work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, George Eastman House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, among others. She appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, and contributed to many prominent publications.

Jill Freedman was best known for her street and documentary photography, recalling the work of André Kertész, W. Eugene Smith, Dorothea Lange, and Cartier-Bresson. She published seven books: Old News: Resurrection City; Circus Days; Firehouse; Street Cops; A Time That Was: Irish Moments; Jill’s Dogs; and Ireland Ever. Jill Freedman lived and worked on the Upper West Side of New York City.

Website:
www.jillfreedman.com

Matt Stuart is an award-winning British street photographer and has been been featured in street photography anthologies, and written Think Like A Street Photographer, a playful manual on the genre. He launched Plague Press publishing in 2016 and revived it in 2020 with a number of brand-new photography publications. He co-authored Reclaim the Street : Street Photography's Moment with Stephen McLaren, a world tour of the very best street photography today, published in May 2023.

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@mattu1 Instagram

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@mattustu X

Gustavo Minas is a Brazilian street photographer. In 2017, his "Bus Station" series won the Pictures of the Year LATAM award in the category “The Future of the Cities” and was shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. His first book “Maximum Shadow, Minimal Light” was released in May 2019 by Edition Lammerhuber, alongside a solo show at Freelens Galerie in Hamburg. In 2023, he was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award with his "Liquid Cities" project.

Website:
www.gustavominas.com

Instagram:
instagram.com/gustavominas

Brian Lloyd Duckett is a UK-based documentary and street photographer and is the founder of StreetSnappers. He’s been shooting the streets for over 20 years and has written four best-selling street photography textbooks.

Brian is an ‘observational’ street photographer, constantly seeking out the ‘unusual in the usual’ and recording the absurdities of 21st century life. His work has been widely published and he writes for magazines and journals worldwide. Brian lectures extensively and currently runs 70-80 documentary and street photography workshops every year.

Website:
www.streetsnappers.com

Instagram:
www.instagram.com/streetsnappers

YouTube:
www.youtube.com/streetsnappers

Eric Luke has worked as a staff photographer with Irish National newspapers for over 45 years.

Former Irish Times photographer and winner of numerous national and international awards, including the World Press Photo, and PPAI Photographer of the Year.

His work has been exhibited throughout Ireland, and further afield. Venues include The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Photo Museum Ireland, World Press Photo Amsterdam and the United Nations Building New York.

His photography has taken him on assignments worldwide, including five Olympic Games, two World Cups, and news stories in Washington, London, Paris, Sydney, India, Syria, Kenya and Somalia.

Born in Dalkey, South Dublin, he has built up a personal archive documenting the people of Ireland over the past five decades.

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@ericlukephoto

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@ericluke2

Website:
www.ericluke.com

Brendan Ó Sé is an award-winning fine art photographer/iPhone photographer and photography educator from Cork, Ireland.

Brendan was part of the original Apple #shotoniPhone global campaign of images shot on iPhone 6 in 2015. In 2017 he was iPhone Photographer of the Year. As well as winning many awards in prestigious international competitions, Brendan has been invited to speak about his photography and provide workshops around the world – from Iceland to Indonesia.

Brendan’s photography workshops in Ireland with the Photo Museum of Ireland in Dublin and the Glusckman Gallery in Cork are very popular.

His street photography has been exhibited in various locations over the years, with the most recent being with the Irish embassies’ Ireland in Frame series in Germany, Chile and Spain.

Using the iPhone Brendan tries to see and create in unusual ways and this results in some unique imagery and striking street photography.

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/brendan.o.se/

Website:
www.brendanose.com

Danielle Houghton is a Street Photographer based in Dublin and is a founding member of the International Observe Photography Collective. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and worldwide in England, Germany, France, Australia, Italy, Istanbul and been featured in major Street Photography Festivals. She was awarded the 2015 Irish Times Amateur Photographer of the Year and has been published in various publications such as ‘Observations’ magazine and is included in the David Gibson Book ‘100 Great Street Photographs’.

Website:

https://www.instagram.com/larking_about_the_street/

www.observecollective.com

Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/larking-about/

Michael “Monty” May (*1958) is a German Street Photographer based in Iserlohn and has been working as a staff photographer at a German newspaper for more than 32 years. He is a founding member Observe Collective, an international photography collective focused primarily on the practice of candid street photography.

Michael, or ‘Monty’ as his friends call him, is manager and curator of the first German Street photography festival ‘Observations’, which started off in 2017 and was interrupted, unfortunately, in 2020 by the Corona pandemic and continued in 2022.

His work has been exhibited in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Thailand, Australia, Poland and featured in major Street Photography Festivals.

Working as a photo journalist, Michael is not a true-blooded street photographer, but a crosser between documentary and street. His work has been published in various newspapers, books and magazines including Observe’s own publication ‘Observations’.

His credo is: “I am not interested in rules and conventions. Street photography is documentary photography in terms of observing our social environments, but not every documentary photography must necessarily be street photography.“

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/montymay/

Web:

https://germanstreetphotography.com/michael-monty-may/

https://www.observecollective.com/

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/monty1958