Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to announce the winners of our Early career Artist Awards 2022-23.
The Photo Museum Ireland Early Career Artist Awards is a mentorship residency programme providing essential curatorial guidance and resources for the most promising photography graduates as they embark on their artistic careers. Over the course of this year-long programme the recipients will have an opportunity to create new work with ongoing support from our expert curatorial team and selected guest mentors.
Winners 2022-23
Caleb Daly & Luke Ryan (TU Dublin)
Tatiana Evonuk (Limerick School of Art & Design)
Shannon Ritchie (Belfast School of Art)
Winner Bios
Caleb Daly is an Arklow based photographer. His practice engages with ideas about landscape as a socially and culturally constructed form. He uses experimental techniques, such as sonification and data bending, in order to produce new kinds of post-futurist image environments. Combining image and audio in a symbiotic relationship, his aim is to produce new kinds of audio and visual experiences for the viewer.
Luke Ryan is a photographic artist from Dublin, Ireland. His work treats a number of contemporary issues such as surveillance, artificial intelligence, consumerism, and modern technologies. The appropriation of digital images from public sources such as webcams, GaN (Generative Adversarial Networks) systems or online databases is an important feature of his practice, as these methods have the ability to reveal the hidden, underlying networks in society.
Shannon Ritchie is a visual artist living and working in Northern Ireland. Her work expresses her complex relationship with Northern Irish politics and culture. Burnt Out is the final project from her BA Photography with Video at Ulster University.
Tatjana Evonuk is a visual artist born to an American-Russian family. She was raised in Prague in the Czech Republic. Tatiana started her artistic career at the Czech Art Academy of Theatre (DAMU) with a performing art course called “Acting with inner partner” under a program by Ivan Vyskocil and Jan Nepomuk. Tatiana continued acting in film and theatre until she moved to Ireland in 2017 where she started her education in film and photography working on projects that visualise her inner world. She graduated in 2022 from LSAD (Limerick School of Art and Design).
The selected artists will receive:
Regular critical feedback sessions with Photo Museum Ireland curators and guest mentors to help develop a new body of work
Specialist workshops to support professional development
Networking opportunities within the wider photography and cultural sectors
Access to production facilities at Photo Museum Ireland, including our state-of-the-art digital suite and fully serviced darkroom
Access to our library, our archive of research materials and use of the Museum’s Lightroom as a workspace
An exhibition of their work in the Artists’ Project Space on the Museum’s ground floor
A selection of their prints included in the National Photography Collection
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to support and encourage the growth of new creative talent in Irish photography. We want the Early Career Artist Awards programme to empower the recipients in developing sustainable individual practices, making a significant contribution to the exciting future of photography in Ireland.
With thanks to Ann Curran (TU Dublin), Martin Healy & Adrian Reilly (IADT), Clare Gallagher (University of Ulster), Sinead Murphy (Griffith College) and Lorraine Neeson (LSAD) for their assistance with nominations.
Banner image: Tatiana Evonuk, Shannon Ritchie, Caleb Daly & Luke Ryan
The Early Career Artist Awards are kindly supported by our Patron Programme.