Overview

In a collection of one hundred photographs Kim Haughton’s new body of work Portrait of a Century offers a stunning portrait of contemporary Ireland as it reflects upon the centenary of the nation’s birth in 1916. Resilience, intimacy, youth – these photographs portray an Ireland at the precipice of change in the knowledge of the strength, dignity, and weight of its past. The poet, the sporting hero, the hopeful youth and nostalgic aged – Haughton’s vision of Ireland is one eclipsing past and present, a vision of the Irish nation seen through the prism of its people. This is the Ireland portrayed in Kim Haughton’s Portrait of a Century. Between 2015 and 2016, one hundred people were invited to participate in Portrait of a Century, each born in a different year, beginning with T. K Whitaker (b. 1916) and ending in 2015. The resulting images are a fascinating depiction of contemporary Ireland as it is reflected in the diversity of its people and sense of nationhood and culture today. In examining the scope of change that has shaped the land since its inception in 1916, Haughton suceeds in delivering an honest, and hopeful, portrait of the nation as it is poised at this moment in time.

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Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, and Kim Haughton's project Portrait of a Century is genius in both its simplicity and impact. -- Gemma Tipton * The Irish Times * 'Portrait of a Century' has been described as a time capsule, and Haughton's images capture the changing contours and contexts of modern Ireland. These reminders of face, place and identity are an unusual way to revisit the visions and values of the 1916 Proclamation, and to reflect on what it means to be Irish at the end of the first century of this nation state. -- Stephanie McBride * Irish Arts Review * 'Kim's photographs struck me as a celebration of ... one of the more eclectic aspects of Ireland's great wealth: the diversity of its people and the range of their backgrounds and contributions ... What strikes me above all in this exhibition [is the] empathy evident in Kim Haughton's work.' -President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins 'Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, and Kim Haughton's project Portrait of a Century is genius in both its simplicity and impact.' -Gemma Tipton, The Irish Times 'The images have obviously been arranged with carful attention to how they fit together visually, and the design is complementary to this aim ... Haughton's project is a unique attempt to summarise a century of Irish life through [some] of the people who have lived it.' -Darren Campion, Irish Arts Review

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Kim Haughton is a photographer from Dublin, Ireland. She studied at Dublin Institute of Technology and completed an MA at the University of the Arts, London. A multi-award winner at Press Photographers Association of Ireland Photojournalism Awards, her images have appeared in publications such as TIME, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, Business Week and The Guardian among others.

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