About Irish photographer, Dominic TURNER

Artist and photographer Dominic TURNER is a master photographic printer for Exhibit A Studios in Dublin where he practices a range of photographic processes dating from the 19th Century right up to the present day. His photographs have been widely exhibited and collected, having been included in many International Festivals and are part of several public and private collections. Dominic TURNER is based in Dublin.

Photo books by Dominic TURNER

  • ‘False Friends’ (2023, debut book)

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The images in self-published book 'False Friends' by Dominic TURNER play with the idea of information gaps & misunderstandings. They explore shadows & veils of a familiar but not quite recognizable world and challenge us to rethink our own interpretation.
48,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg

Recent Shortlists & Awards

  • 2021: Gomma Photography Grant - Finalist,  Black & White Category; Hariban Award, Benrido Atelier, Kyoto, Japan - ‘Honourable Mention’
    2018: InCadaqués International Photography Festival. Open Call, 2018. Winner; Fotofilmic 18//Shortlist 1 & selected for Travelling Exhibition;
    2017: Gomma Photography Grant, Shortlist; Renaissance Photography Prize. Finalist; Hariban Award,  Shortlist
Exhibitions (a selection)

  • 2023: Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibiton, London; 'Kwaidan' - Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Matsue, Japan; 'Finding Form' – Selected Works from Kildare’s Municipal Art Collection, Riverbank, Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare;

    2022: Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London; 'Shot’, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin; 'Images Are All We Have', Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland/PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle, Dublin;
    2020: Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin; 'Selected Works of the UCC Art Collection', The Glucksman, UCC, Cork;
    2019: Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2018: Fotofever, Charlet Photographies, Paris; InCadaqués International Photography Festival, Winner's Exhibition. Cadaqués, Spain; 'Gathering', Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon. King House. Invited Artist; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2017: Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Belfast; 'Renaissance Photography Prize, 2017'. Finalist. Getty Images Gallery, London; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin; 'Shot', SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin; 'Painterly Photography’. Catherine Hammond Gallery, Skibbereen, Co. Cork;
    2016: ‘The Idea of North’, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin; ‘Shutter’, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin; ‘Chasing Shadows’, Gallery X, Dublin; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland. Invited participant; Little Stories, Little Prints - A 1916 Commemorative Visual Art Project;
    2015: Fotofever, Charlet Photographies, Paris; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2014: Skibbereen Arts Festival, Cork, Ireland; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2013: Fotofever, Paris; ‘Outside/In’ - Camera Obscura Installation. Big House Festival, Castletown House, Celbridge,. Co. Kildare, Ireland; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2012: ‘CIRCULATION(S’) Festival de la Jeune Photographie Europeénne, Paris; Chasing Shadows, The Profile Gallery, Saltburn -by-the-Sea, UK; ‘Rayko’s 5th International Juried Plastic Camera Show’, San Francisco; ‘Illusion & Chemistry: The Alternative Process’, Kat Kiernan Gallery, Virginia, USA; Arles Photography Open Salon, Galerie Huit, Arles, France;
    2011: ‘Human/Nature’, OPW State Art Collection, Farmleigh, Dublin; Chasing Shadows 11, CFCP, Dublin; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 2011, Dublin. Invited participant.;
    2010: 
Chasing Shadows, CFCP, Dublin; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2009: Photo LA/Andrew Ward Gallery; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2008: Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin;
    2007: Mermaid Arts Centre Gallery, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin; Airfield Trust, Dundrum, Co.Dublin;
    2006: The Front Lounge, Dublin;
    2005: Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland;
    2004: Xhedos Gallery, Detroit, USA; Yebisu Photographic Week, Tokyo;