PIF 2014 Team / Thanks

Thanks to all our funders, sponsors and partners for recognising the value of Ireland’s International Festival of Photography and sharing our vision.

To the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Dublin City Council, for the continuous support. To the sponsors who made it possible; everyone at The Copper House Gallery, especially Leszek Wolnik, Maureen Kearney Wolnik, Mark Paisley; Jonothan Sultan and Shane Cowley from CANON Ireland. To Tanya Kiang, Trish Lambe, Daniel Scully, Darragh Shanahan, and Pete Smyth, at the Gallery of Photography. Special thanks to the Temple Bar Company and to Claudine Murray, Director of Marketing and Events. To Bartholomew McElhatton. To Clíona Dukes and everyone at Smock Alley Theatre. To Donough and Seanus, and the Irish Georgian Society. Thanks to the Oliver Sears Gallery for hosting the talks. To Séan and Yvette at South Studios.

To the generous cultural partners and their staff; Philippe Milloux, Director of the Alliance Française de Dublin, and Francoise Brung, Cultural Coordinator; Mechtild Manus, Director of the Goethe Institut, and Barbara Ebert, Head of the Cultural Programme; To Rolf Hospodarsky and the Austrian Embassy; Rosa León, Director of the Instituto Cervantes, and Laura Martín, from the Arts Department; Chris Visosky, Cultural Affairs Specialist, U.S. Embassy; Nurit Tinari Modai, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of Israel. To the French Embassy for their support of Iréne Attinger’s visit to Dublin, and the support towards Marie Sommer and David Fathi’s visit. To the Istituto Europeo di Design IED Madrid, and Marta Orozco. To RTE Supporting The Arts grant for their support; Rachel Collins and Frank Miller at The Irish Times, Totally Dublin, Le Cool; Ruth Carroll, Amelia Stein, Peggy Sue Amison; To Urban Outfitters and Brick Alley Café; MIP Mac Innes Photography; Blow Magazine, Irish Photo News, Piranha Bar; always thankful to Andrew, Rowena and Stuart, at Business to Arts, and to Gerard Mc Naughton and Donall Curtin for their advice and support; To Claudi Nir, for all her hard work over the years on PhotoIreland. To the volunteers who make it all possible. Finally, a big big thank you to Rachael Gilbourne, and our wonderful neighbours at Black Church Print Studio, Project Arts Centre, and the Temple Bar Galleries and Studios.

Thanks to all who supported PhotoIreland in the past, and to those who are building the future with us.