Portrait of a Century

By Kim Haughton

Consulate of Ireland, NYC:   3-20 May 2016

345 Park Avenue, Floor 17 (Btw 51st & 52nd Streets)

New York, NY 10154

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“Portrait of a Century” is a reflection of one hundred years of Irish identity, history, culture and achievement through the prism of those who have shaped the nation and those who are a part of it's future. Photographic portraits have been made of one hundred people who have a connection to Ireland in some significant way, each born in a different year over the past century. These include the faces of artists, writers, leaders, thinkers, musicians and sporting heroes. In 2016, as Ireland reflects on a revolution that gave birth to an Independent state, these images are representations of who we are at a significant moment in time.

Biography

Kim Haughton is an Irish photographer based in New York. She holds an MA in Documentary Photography from University of the Arts, London. During her career, she has covered post-conflict issues in over twenty countries. Her work has appeared in publications worldwide including TIME, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel and the Financial Times. Her image of horses outside an abandoned house became the iconic representation of Ireland's economic collapse and was chosen as one of eleven images to to feature in the Guardian's “History of Europe In Pictures 1945-2011” Her first solo exhibition “In Plain Sight” was shown at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin in 2015.  
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