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The Gallery of Photography is a wafer thin building grafted onto a blank
brick wall of the Irish Film Centre. Its reflective façade
is of Portland stone, a material used in many historic buildings in
Dublin. The façade itself forms an abstract image of a camera
with the large central window symbolising the camera lens and operating
as a screen for films and photographs projected from the National
Photography Archive opposite.
The different materials used in the windows create
a lively mix of visual effects between transparency
and opaqueness, which have associations with the nature
of photography. The basement houses the darkrooms, the
ground floor contains a reception and office space while
the upper floors of the gallery can be sectioned off
with sliding screens, which double the exhibition space
for larger exhibitions.
Click here
to view our interview with the Gallery of Photography's
architects, Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
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