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In the latest article online at overjournal.org curator Valeria Posada-Villada writes on Nadège Mazars’ ‘Mama Coca’ questioning the image of the coca plant by suggesting a more inclusive perspective. “Nadège Mazars, a French photographer living in Colombia since 2007, is known for taking a holistic approach to exploring the effects of global issues related to migration, nature, and war and peace. Mama Coca, a multi-faceted project that was exhibited before and is now also published as an artist book, includes photo series, texts, and historical and documentary archives. It results from a photographic investigation that aims to deconstruct prejudices about the coca plant, and the narrative developed from the countries of the global North, reducing it to an illicit product.  Mazars’ more experimental and fluid approach to camera use—long exposures, tight crops, and playful manipulations of colour— supports the spirit of coca that inhabits the territory. This exploration evokes the feeling that the plant is a living presence, intertwined with its landscape and its people.” OVER Journal is made possible thanks to the support of the @artscouncilireland #OVERJournal #ContemporaryArts #VisualArts #ContemporaryImage #Photobook

Delighted to have OVER Journal issue 4 part of the @100archive 2025 OVER Journal is a publishing project by PhotoIreland that represents in every issue a critical selection of contemporary photographic practices from all continents. Issue 4 explores themes around representation and the evolving role of the image in shaping history and identity, articulating new representations that challenge historical legacies - with contributions from artists and writers spanning six continents. Featured works include a range of topics investigating representation, from Basil Al-Rawi’s challenge of the narrative representation of Iraq and its diaspora to Tashiya de Mel’s investigation into visual history of Dutch colonisation in Sri Lanka; from Marianne Keating’s work on shared colonial and revolutionary histories of lands to Jakob Ganslmeier and Ana Zibelnik’s analysis of extremist visual language online, and from Morganna Magee’s research into the historical representation of the kangaroo providing a framework by which we can assess the treatment and narrative building on non-white bodies in visual history to Liss Fenwick’s interrogation of historical and ongoing impacts of extractive colonialist practices in Australia’s Northern Territory. Issue 4 offers these and much more to excite and inspire the reader. Featured artists: Basil Al-Rawi, Alan Butler, Simone C. Niquille, Tashiya de Mel, Imane Djamil, Liss Fenwick, Jakob Ganslmeier, Souheila Ghorbel, Yasmine Hatimi, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Amina Kadous, Marianne Keating, Ayoung Kim, Seif Kousmate, Jennifer Mehigan, Hashim Nasr, Alex Prager, Felipe Romero Beltrán, Zohra Serri, Abdo Shanan, Aaryan Sinha, Inuuteq Storch, Rebecca Topakian, Ana Zibelnik. Featured writers: Laura Carbonell, Richard Conway, Sharbendu De, Tashiya de Mel, Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Aidan Kelly Murphy, Laila Lund Altinbas, Morganna Magee, Ruairí McCann, Rehan Miskci, Nora O Murchú, Andrea Stultiens. Cover image Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Still from Uncensored Lilac (2024). All Rights Reserved. Back cover image Hoda Afshar, Untitled #01, from the series Code Black/Riot, 2025. With the support of @artscouncilireland

NOW AVAILABLE: OVER Journal Bundles New OVER Journal discount bundles are now available for purchase! Choose from the OVER Mix-and-Match Bundle, OVER Complete Bundle or purchase all five OVER Journal Issues for the price of four. OVER Mix-and-Match Bundle: Save up to 20%. Choose any issue of OVER Journal and any piece of OVER merchandise. OVER Complete Bundle: Save €23. Includes OVER Journal Issue 4 + 5, OVER Tote Bag, OVER T-Shirt, OVER Cap, OVER Sticker and OVER Postcard. All OVER Journal Issues: All five issues for the price of four. Available in-store or online at thelibraryproject.ie #photoireland #OVERJournal #thelibraryproject #InternationalCentrefortheImage

In the latest article online at overjournal.org, Julia Gelezova discusses the latest work of artist Saskia Holmkvist, which takes its departure point from a 2001 performance by Belfast artist Heather Allen, and the limits and benefits of translation within artistic practices. “There is much to be gained from encouraging a shared experience, a shared life, and a shared state of being and of feeling. Holmkvist’s approach brings this to the fore, suggesting that this is an obligation, a responsibility we have to learn about and regard one another. In contrast to the exploitative precedents and examples of representation, Holmkvist’s process is deeply embedded in empathy and the genuine desire to want to relate and to understand. ‘Margaret (Back Translation)’ is an exercise in solidarity, amalgamating critical fabulation, documentary techniques, archival footage, and testimonies. The resulting piece advances the image as a site at which social and political realities can be reimagined and revisited.” Saskia Holmkvist’s solo exhibition ‘KLub’, curated by Corina Oprea, runs at Fotogalleriet Oslo until 22nd February 2026. Thank you to @fotogalleriet_oslo for the invitation and opportunity to meet the artist. OVER Journal is made possible thanks to the support of the @artscouncilireland #OVERJournal #ContemporaryArts #VisualArts #PerformanceArts #ContemporaryImage

In our new online only feature curator Zippora Elders holds a conversation with artist Selma Selman. Selma Selman deliberately presents herself as an artist with Romani origin, rather than simply as a Romani artist. The poverty and social exclusion she experienced throughout her upbringing echoes in her artistic practice, spanning painting, sculpture and performance; unique and personal expressions yet decidedly connected to both contemporary visual culture and art history. She won The Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025, which embodies Roma pride and honours the outstanding creative achievements of Roma artists and cultural producers across diverse fields. At the core of her practice, balancing on levels of both technical skill and metaphor, are themes of desire and self-determination, through which she critically explores the limits of, and restrictions placed on, individual and collective identity. Read it in full exclusively at overjournal.org Image Credits: 1. ‘Ophelia’s Awakening’ installation photograph by Dávid Tóth 2-4. Installation and event photographs by Eike Walkenhorst 5. Portrait of the artist by Vanesa Miteva #OVERJournal #ContemporaryArt #VisualArts #SelfDetermination #Desire #ContemporaryImage #PhotoIreland #IrishPublishing #NewJournal #Photography #VisualCulture #Criticism #InternationalPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #InternationalArt #VisualCulture #CriticalTheory

Delighted to start the year by receiving the @overjournal featuring writing about my work by Irish writer Aidan Kelly Murphy @akellymurphy . Holy dooley it’s good!! Honoured by Aidan’s thoughtful engagement with this long term project involving termites and settler fan fiction. Thank you Aidan for going the extra mile, reading my PhD, and engaging with ideas of extractivism, imposed knowledge systems, and colonialism in Australia’s Northern Territory. A long way from Dublin but something the Irish are sadly all too familiar with. Excited that this work will materialise into a photobook this year. A book about books 📚 ♾️ 🐜 The edition also has a great article on fav artist Alan Butler on his work with representation and American landscape photography. Back cover image slays by @hodaafshar and Cairns based aboriginal org Youth Empowered Towards Independence Bonus shot of moi with Xmas pressie from moi 🚜 💨

On the 25th October, at the International Centre for the Image in Dublin, we celebrated the launch of not one but TWO issues of OVER Journal: issue 4 and a @futuresphotography special issue 5. The launch coincided with the official opening of the Centre’s two new exhibitions, David Farrell’s ‘Solastalgia’ and Cristina De Middel’s ‘Journey to the Center’ who took us through their work in two artist talks. David Farrell was previously featured in issue 1 and Cristina De Middel has contributed with a very personal text to issue 5. All issues are available at overjournal.org and shipped internationally! #OVERJournal #IrishPublishing #Photography #VisualCulture #Criticism #InternationalPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #PhotoIreland #VisualCulture #CriticalTheory #ArtWriting #VisualArts

Save the date for Paris: Critical Beans is back, hosted by @centreculturelirlandais Critical Beans is a get-together organised this year by PhotoIreland where visitors can enjoy strong coffee and urgent conversations around contemporary art. Each international speaker shares their current work and preoccupations, driving the focus of the morning session in rapid-fire propositions that are opened to the audience. The session will commence with a presentation of the latest double release of OVER Journal issue 4 including a special @futuresphotography edition. Speakers: -Bettina Freimann, Project Director, The Triennial of Photography Hamburg @bettina.freimann @phototriennale -Imane Djamil, Artist @idjamil -Raphaëlle Stopin, Curator & Art Director Director, Centre photographique Rouen Normandie @raphaellestopin @centrephotographique -Tom Viaene, editor, Trigger, Fotomuseum Antwerp @tom.viaene.31 @triggerfomu @fomuantwerp Friday 14th November Schedule: 11am PhotoIreland introduces OVER Journal issues 4 and 5
11:15am Speakers, followed by Q&A and participation from the audience
12.30pm Tour of the exhibition Ladies and Gentlemen by artist Daragh Soden @daraghsoden 
1pm A tour of the Centre Culturel Irlandais premises Free, no need to book!

Join us this Saturday 25th October at 1pm for the launch of OVER Journal issues 4 and 5 at the International Centre for the Image in Dublin. The launch will coincide with the official opening of the centre’s two new exhibitions, David Farrell’s ‘Solastalgia’ and Cristina De Middel’s ‘Journey to the Center’. David Farrell was previously featured in issue 1, and Cristina De Middel has contributed with a very personal text to issue 5. With the support of the Arts Council of Ireland, co-editors Julia Gelezova, Ángel Luis González Fernández, Aidan Kelly Murphy, and Erik Vroons have produced two new issues of the journal, offering an in-depth review of selected themes that define contemporary photographic practices today. Schedule for Sat 25 October 2025 1pm OVER Journal launch: Introduction to the latest issues and artist talk with Cristina De Middel 2pm Artist talk in the gallery with David Farrell #OVERJournal #IrishPublishing #Photography #VisualCulture #Criticism #InternationalPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #PhotoIreland #VisualCulture #CriticalTheory #ArtWriting #VisualArts

New article online at overjournal.org Colin Graham writes on forging a space for rethinking the image, reviewing ‘Foreword’, the inaugural exhibition of the International Centre for the Image, opened by @photoireland in Dublin, Ireland, last July. “As photography has gradually, and then dramatically, dematerialised into the digital image, its practitioners have remade its possibilities through accelerating the formal changes which are taking place via the digital, by ironically playing with those processes of change, or by knowingly reversing them. Photographers and image makers forget photography by remembering it anew, with astringency, irony, critique, obliquity and deliberative nostalgia.” This article was made possible thanks to the support of the @artscouncilireland . #OVERJournal #ContemporaryPhotography #ContemporaryImage #PhotographyJournal #PhotographyMagazine #PhotoIreland #IrishPublishing #NewJournal #Photography #VisualCulture #Criticism #InternationalPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #VisualCulture #CriticalTheory

Pre-orders for OVER Journal Issue 4 now open, shipping from early October with launch events announced soon! The fourth issue of OVER Journal brings together texts by Laura Carbonell, Richard Conway, Sharbendu De, Tashiya de Mel, Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, Aidan Kelly Murphy, Laila Lund Altinbas, Morganna Magee, Ruairí McCann, Rehan Miskci, Nora O Murchú, and Andrea Stultiens. Featuring work from Basil Al-Rawi, Alan Butler, Simone C. Niquille, Tashiya de Mel, Imane Djamil, Liss Fenwick, Jakob Ganslmeier and Ana Zibelnik, Souheila Ghorbel, Yasmine Hatimi, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Amina Kadous, Marianne Keating, Ayoung Kim, Seif Kousmate, Jennifer Mehigan, Hashim Nasr, Alex Prager, Felipe Romero Beltrán, Zohra Serri, Abdo Shanan, Aaryan Sinha, Inuuteq Storch, and Rebecca Topakian. Cover Image: still from 'Uncensored Lilac' by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan. Order through link-in-bio #OVERJournal #IrishPublishing #NewJournal #Photography #VisualCulture #Criticism #InternationalPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #PhotoIreland #VisualCulture #CriticalTheory

Noémie Goudal’s institutional solo exhibition, ‘Tilt’, at The Dock in Leitrim, Ireland, brings together new and recent works across sculpture, film, and photography. “Her images are generally devoid of human presence – when buildings are depicted, they always look long abandoned – and illusionary tricks are played out on the viewer while making no mystery of using them. Perhaps the first trick of all is that, contrary to our first impression, her photographs are absolutely straightforward, deprived any sort of digital manipulation.” Read Michaële Cutaya on Noémie Goudal at overjournal.org #OVERJournal #ContemporaryPhotography #ContemporaryImage #PhotographyJournal #PhotographyMagazine #PhotoIreland