Photo award shortlisted artists named
Photo Museum Ireland has named the shortlisted artists for the inaugural Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize, a national award celebrating outstanding contemporary photography in Ireland today.
Selected from over 1,300 entries, the shortlisted artists present responses to the 2026 theme, Community – Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine – it is in each other’s shadow that we live.
The shortlisted artists are: Chad Alexander, Salem Anowe Chukwuezi, Philip Arneill, Niamh Barry, Lisa Bennett, Deirdre Brennan, Missy Brinkmeyer, Michael Cassidy, Ishmael Claxton, Polina Cosgrave, Shane Coughlan, Michael Croghan, Evanna Devine, Laura Dunwoody, Cat Gundry-Beck, Caroline Guinan, Conor Horgan, Shane Hynan, JP Keating, Joe Laverty, Xuying Li, Jeanette Lowe, James Mahon, Jillian McGrath, Yvette Monahan, Emma O’Brien, Clodagh O’Leary, Mandy O’Neill, Keelin O’Shea, Chris Reid, Emily Roche, Blaise Smith and Laura Smith.
The exhibition opens at Photo Museum Ireland from 22 April to 24 May 2026.
Honorarium
The winners will be announced on opening night, with €10,000 for first prize, two runners-up awarded €2,500 each, and 30 shortlisted artists will receive an exhibition honorarium award.
The winner of the Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Bursary will also be announced on the night.
Partner and head of the Taylor Wessing Dublin office at Taylor Wessing Adam Griffiths said: “We are immensely proud to see such a vibrant response to the inaugural Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize.”