Young photographers make their mark in Temple Bar
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Young photographers make their mark in Temple Bar
PRESS RELEASE
1st July 2013
Image credit – Photograph L: Victoria Durrer . L-R: YAM.ie / PhotoIreland Competition Winners Ste Murray and Zac Milofsky
Photograph R: Poster of Zak Milofsky’s Photograph, currently displayed in Temple Bar Square
YAM.ie and PhotoIreland are delighted to announce the winners of their joint photography competition; Zak Milofsky of Rathfarnham, 18, winner of the 13-18-year old age group and Ste Murray of Co. Kildare, 25, winner of the 19-25 year-old age group.
Both winners have had their winning images blown up to A0 posters and placed in poster sites on Eustace Street and Temple Bar Square in Dublin’s cultural quarter today (July 1st). The posters will remain in place for two weeks, giving both photographers a temporary ‘exhibition’ and a chance to be part of this year’s PhotoIreland Festival, which launches today in Dublin, Cork and Limerick and runs throughout the month of July.
The winners were selected by PhotoIreland founder and Creative Director Angel Luis Gonzales Fernandez and guest judges and fellow critically acclaimed photographers Richard Gilligan and Dragana Jurisic.
Entrants were asked to submit a photograph they believe described ‘My Tribe’, a fitting theme for the both PhotoIreland’s theme this year, ‘Ireland’, and during this year of the Gathering.
The competition is part of a promotional campaign for YAM.ie, an initiative of South Dublin County Council, the National Youth Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council and Temple Bar Cultural Trust. YAM.ie (Your Arts Map) is the only listings website mapping out arts and cultural events for and by 13 – 25 year olds across greater Dublin. It provides one central location where an individual or organisation can literally put their event on the map thanks to its interactive Google maps.
The judges commented on the particularly high standard of entrants, and after much deliberation chose Zac and Ste’s images.
The winning images and shortlisted photographs can be viewed on the yam.ie Facebook page: www.facebook.com/yourartsmap
Biographies
Zak Milofsky has just finished his Leaving Cert examination and will be attending the National College of Art and Design in September 2013.
Ste Murray is a photographer, actor and designer from Kildare.
Richard Gilligan
Richard Gilligan holds an MFA in fine art photography from the University of Ulster, Belfast and a BA honours degree in documentary photography from the University of Wales, Newport. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide with recent exhibitions in Berlin, Malmo and Los Angeles. Gilligan has worked as a contributing photographer to a wide range of skate magazines such as SLAP, Sidewalk, Kingpin and Transworld Skateboarding. He was featured in the documentary film/book Format Perspective by Phil Evans released in 2011. Last year he was invited to present his work at OFFSET creative festival alongside the likes of Shepard Fairey, Stefan Sagmeister and Evan Hecox. Gilligan has been documenting homemade skate parks worldwide from 2008– 2012. www.richgilligan.com
Drgana Jurisic Biography
Dragana Jurisic was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). She is currently based in Dublin. Since receiving a distinction for her MFA (University of Wales, Newport) in 2008, Dragana Jurisic was selected as an Axis MAstar in 2009, “An annual selection of the most promising artist from the UK's leading MA coursesâ€. In 2010 she was selected as a finalist in The Julia Margaret Cameron Award (a worldwide competition for women photographers), shortlisted for The European Women’s Lobby Photography Prize and received the Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award.
In 2011, Dragana won the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Emerging Photographic Artist Award, Arts Council’s Travel and Training Award and Culture Ireland funding, as well as the Graduate Student Prize from The International Rebecca West Society. In 2012, she received project funding from Belfast Exposed (in association with the ACNI), Arts Council’s Travel and Training Award and was nominated by curator Christine Frisinghelli for Plat(t)form 2013 at Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland and selected by its curators as one of the presenters.
She exhibited widely internationally and her work is part of the Irish State Art Collection and the University of Michigan collection, amongst others. Dragana is currently undertaking her PhD research in the European Centre for Photographic Research (University of Wales, Newport). www.draganajurisic.com
About YAM.ie
YAM.ie (Your Arts Map) is the only listings website mapping out arts and cultural events for and by 13 – 25 year olds across greater Dublin. It provides one central location where an individual or organisation can literally put their event on the map thanks to its interactive Google maps.
YAM is the perfect platform for arts and cultural organisations, youth groups and venues to promote and advertise events are specifically targeted towards this age-bracket and is free to use.
By downloading a free Facebook app all the information submitted to YAM will become available on your Facebook timeline automatically. Once the app is installed on your Facebook account, any subsequent listings added to YAM.ie will be available to all friends and fans instantly. An embeddable widget is also available so individuals can easily display their YAM listings on their own website or blog.
YAM.ie has been developed through partnership between South Dublin County Council, Dublin City Council, Temple Bar Cultural Trust and the National Youth Council of Ireland. The project has been funded by support from the Arts Council’s Local Partnership Scheme 2011 and designed and developed by practice&theory.
“The YAM website is really user-friendly. The look and feel of the website is attractive, clear and easy to use. We particularly like the hit the road link as our venue can be hard to find. The website links really well with social media via social media sharing & embeddable widgets, and is backed up by a regular tweeting of our upcoming events by YAM.ie. We have just downloaded the YAM listings app for our Facebook page and prefer it to the events page provided by Facebook. Overall, it’s a great promotional tool for us and a good way for us to reach a younger audience for our events.†– Niamh Byrne, General Manager, Civic Theatre Tallaght.
About PhotoIreland Festival 2013
Founded by Angel Luis Gonzales Fernandez, PhotoIreland is an organisation dedicated to stimulate a dialogue around Photography in Ireland. In 2010, it launched Ireland's first international festival of Photography & Image Culture: The PhotoIreland Festival. Since then, the programme of events has attracted artists, institutions and audiences to engage with and celebrate Photography for the month of July. Marking the fourth edition in 2013, PhotoIreland Festival sets out to review contemporary Photography in Ireland with a selection of exhibitions in Dublin, Limerick and Cork.
For more information please contact:
Victoria Durrer
Youth Arts Coordinator
SouthDublin CountyCouncil
01 414 9270
Image credit – Photograph L: Victoria Durrer . L-R: YAM.ie / PhotoIreland Competition Winners Ste Murray and Zac Milofsky
Photograph R: Poster of Zak Milofsky’s Photograph, currently displayed in Temple Bar Square
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Victoria Durrer
Youth Arts Coordinator
South Dublin County Council
01 414 9270
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Zak Milofsky and family