ten projects by contemporary artists from around the globe focussing on a personal view on Migration as a phenomenon, which has shaped our planet and the way we live, today more than ever before. It includes photographers from Hungary, Germany, Georgia, Southern China, Poland and Latvia

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In 2008, Maurice Gunning travelled to Buenos Aires and began interviewing and photographing the Argentine Irish Diaspora. Over three months he met with all the Argentine Irish organisations of the city and explored the vast farmland areas of Buenos Aires Province.

David Monahan’s series Leaving Dublin (pictured above) is a photographic tribute to the courage and efforts of those who have left their homeland. For over two years now, he has been capturing emigrants as they prepare to leave Ireland in search of better opportunities abroad.

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Photographs captured during her visit to Dublin in 1966. In colour and black and white, the work captures Ireland at the tipping point between an older, more conservative culture and the emerging modern world

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The Seán Hillen Collection: Photographs from the North of Ireland 1979-1990

This collection consists of 530 original 35mm black-and- white negatives taken by Newry-born photographer in the North of Ireland between 1979 and 1990. Seán Hillen’s is a significant addition to NLI’s photographic collections, currently containing an estimated 4.5m photographs.

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Jamie became interested in water towers because of their form, singular use and roles as landmarks. While researching and cataloguing the towers, he also found that they could indicate a timeline in the history of the country.

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Amelia Stein (work pictured above), lives and works in Dublin and has established herself as a singularly exacting photographer. Her area of expertise has been portraiture, working with actors, performers, playwrights, poets, authors, musicians on commissioned images and on production photography in the Irish theatre. The Palm House, photographs taken in the Great Palm House at the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, over two years, is now in the collection of the OPW, Ireland.

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