Kissing Krocs
The exhibition opens to the public on 22 April and runs until 24 May 2026 at Photo Museum Ireland. It features 34 works by shortlisted artists that are ambitious, socially engaged and deeply rooted in lived experience, foregrounding perspectives that expand how community is seen, represented and understood. Together, the selected photographs offer a timely view of contemporary Ireland shaped by connection, creativity and shared experience.
Missy Brinkmeyer’s Seen offers an insight into her ongoing encounters with the contemporary city and the life that unfolds on its streets. While much of the focus is on Dublin and its unique character, the work is an expression of the nature and pulse of urban streetscapes and communities anywhere. For Brinkmeyer, these two young women embody a freedom of expression and identity that is vibrantly, defiantly Dublin, a freedom she recognises is neither rooted in our past nor yet universal.
“Her images probe the fragile boundaries between self and other, between seeing and being seen, between you and me on ordinary streets.”
— Neva Elliott