2014

October
I'm delighted to join the esteemed group of artists who are represented by Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin. It has been a pleasure to work with Oliver and Jane over the past months, and a new edit of We Make the Path by Walking was exhibited at the gallery during July as part of PhotoIreland Festival 2014.

Oliver Sears Gallery will present my work along with other represented artists at the upcoming VUE National Contemporary Art Fair, which takes place at the RHA in Dublin from 30th October to 2nd November.

I recently spoke to Anna Savitskaya from Artdependence about book making and self publishing, and to Sinead O'Shea from The Irish Times for a podcast about walking on the Camino de Santiago.

I have have been invited to take part in the 133rd Royal Ulster Academy Annual Show which opens at the Ulster Museum in Belfast on October 16th.


September
Some images from We Make the Path by Walking will feature in an upcoming photography theory book by Jesse Alexander, which aims to introduce new university students to different approaches to landscape photography. Perspectives on Place: Theory and Practice in Landscape Photography is published by Bloomsbury, and will hit the shelves in January 2015.

We Make the Path by Walking will be included in a selection of books which will be presented by The Library Project at the upcoming Photobook Week Aarhus.

We Make the Path by Walking has been Featured in the latest issue of Fraction Magazine Japan.


August
I will be exhibiting a large selection of pieces from We Make the Path by Walking in an upcoming show in my hometown Navan, alongside works
by the super talented Michael Wann and Emma Donaldson. In A Landscape opens on September 4th at 7:30pm at the Solstice Arts Centre, and runs until October 11th. You can view some installation shots here.

We Make the Path by Walking has been reviewed in detail by Tom Griggs for Fototazo.


July
The special edition of We Make the Path by Walking is now SOLD OUT.

I'm delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit a new edit of We Make the Path by Walking at Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin this month as part of PhotoIreland Festival 2014, which runs until July 31st. The gallery is situated in a beautiful Georgian building on Molesworth Street and it's an amazing space, so please check it out if you happen to be in town.

The gallery also hosted the PhotoIreland Summer Campus talks earlier this month, one of which was an 'in conversation' event between myself and Christiane Monarchi from Photomonitor. The show has been receiving some good press coverage and I was recently interviewed about the work on the Arena arts show on RTE Radio 1 (Ireland's national broadcaster).


June
The upcoming shows at Oliver Sears Gallery, which opens on July 3rd in Dublin, has been featured on Wall Street International.

We Make the Path by Walking has been featured on The New Yorker Photo Booth blog.

The Ffotogallery show has been reviewed in the latest editions of Source magazine and Colonial Cultural Quarterly.


May
We Make the Path by Walking will be exhibited at Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin from 03/07 to 31/07 as part of PhotoIreland Festival 2014.

Ana Fernandez interviewed me recenty for Daily Metal, the online home of the very cool Spanish fashion, photography and art magazine Metal.

I will be hosting the next edition of Photobook Club Belfast at Belfast Exposed on 19/06. I'm going to present a number of books which have influenced the concept and design of We Make The Path By Walking and discuss my approach to book making. I also plan on bringing along some book dummies for visitors to handle and explore.

We Make the Path by Walking is one of 60 books included in one of the main shows of Fotografia Europea festival at Reggio Emilia in Italy.
The theme of this year's festival is Senza meta. Il libro come pensiero fotografico... Without a destination. The book as a photographic thought.

I have a piece in the How One Thing Leads to Another group exhibition at the Houston Center Photography, which runs from May 9th to July 9th.


April
A recent interview with Walter Lewis from the WALK Centre at the University of Sunderland has been posted on Photomonitor.co.uk.

The lovely people at Ivory Press will be selling copies of my Special Edition at the Libros Mutantes art book fair in Madrid from 25/04 to 27/04.

I recently had the pleasure of being a visiting lecturer at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) (Madrid), Griffith College (Dublin), and the University of South Wales (Newport).

We Make the Path by Walking has been featured on formagramma.com


March
One of my photos has been included in a couple of group shows this month:
How One Thing Leads to Another opens at Corden Potts Gallery in San Francisco (opens on 06/03/14 and runs until 29/03/14) and
UU / Yale MFA Photography Exhibition at University of Ulster, Belfast (opens on 13/03/14 and runs until 21/03/14).

I'm very happy to have joined the European Prospects project. Check out their website for more information or check the following link for an overview of the Europa Re-Imagined symposium which took place at Chapter in Cardiff earlier this month.

My book will be included in F Book Show, an exhibition of self published photobooks at Gallery 72 in Tokyo from March 26th to April 12th.
The show has been curated by the nice people at Photobookshow in collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Photography.

We Make the Path by Walking has been included in the Landscape #1 exhibition which runs at Guest Projects, London from March 6th to 30th.
The exhibition includes work by Minna Kantonen, Dafna Talmor, Emma Wieslander, Minna Pöllänen and several photobooks which aim to challenge traditional representations of landscape.


February
Rory Duckhouse has written an essay about the Ffotogallery show for Photomonitor, and it has also been featured on the Aesthetica Magazine blog.

A solo show of We Make the Path by Walking runs from 6th February to 8th March alongside Michal Iwanowski's Clear of People at Ffotogallery in Penarth, Wales. The show opened with an 'in conversation' event hosted by Colin Pantall, which you can hear here. The exhibition has been kindly supported by Culture Ireland.

We Make the Path by Walking has been reviewed in print in Source magazine (issue 77 - Winter 2014), and European Photography #94. It has also been featured on Books Are Nice! and Emaho Magazine, and received a nice mention from Angel Luis Gonzalez in the OFFSET 2013 Review.

I came across quite possibly my favourite line that I've read about my book in a review by How to Democracy:
"Like using an electric shaver on a cocker spaniel, the path that has been carved out first by history and then followed by Gaffney is one that has not grown back the same way."

My book is in some very good company at the Self Publish Showcase at Belfast Exposed in Belfast, which runs from 04/02/14 to 14/02/14.
Call in to check out some great locally produced books by local artists.


January
I will be releasing a Special Edition of We Make the Path by Walking in February, which you can now pre-order for 180 euro (incl. free p&p).
The signed book will come with an 8x10 inch print and a walnut presentation box, in a numbered limited edition of 50 copies.

We Make the Path by Walking has now SOLD OUT. A big thank you to everyone out there who bought a copy!

I'm delighted to see that my book has made it on to several 'Best Photobooks of 2013' lists:
- photo-eye (chosen by Colin Pantall, Regina Anzenberger & Doug Stockdale)
- The Photobook Club
- Seeking Magazine
- The Photobook
- Bint Photobooks
- Josef Chladek.com

We Make the Path by Walking has recently been reviewed by Marc Feustel of eye curious. Marc is also one of the editors of the new photography website Papercuts, which looks like it's going to be a very informative resource for more in-depth writing on photography and interviews.


2013

December
We Make the Path by Walking has made it on to the British Journal of Photography's Best Photobooks of 2013 list (selected by Colin Pantall).

A nice short review of We Make the Path by Walking by Hannes Wanderer, bookshop owner (25 Books) and publisher (Peperoni Books), and another by Douglas Stockdale for his blog The PhotoBook.

I will be signing copies of my book, along with Vincent Delbrouck and Stefan Vanthuyne at the 'Poets of Landscape' event at Tipi Bookshop in Brussels on 13/12.

You can check out We Make the Path by Walking on the news stands this month in the December issue of Creative Review. It also gets a mention in GUP Magazine #39 (Utopia).

Make the Path by Walking has been included in the Unfolding Images photobook exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, which runs from 02/12 to 30/12.


November
Gemma Padley has reviewed We Make the Path by Walking for the British Journal of Photography. She desribes the book as "lyrical, soul-lifting and beautifully contemplative".

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Tim Bowditch and Nick Rochowski about my work and book. You can find the interview and some images at Global Archive Photography.

My book will be included in a special presentation of New Irish Works at the düo bookshop/gallery during Paris Photo.

We Make the Path by Walking is now on the Indie Photobook Library.

Some images from We Make the Path by Walking have been featured on both Posi+tive Magazine and Phases, and you can check out a video of the book at The Angry Bat's Nice Photobooks.

I'm very happy to have been included in this year's Photo Lucida Critical Mass Top 50.


October
We Make the Path by Walking has been described in Jonathan Blaustein's review for A Photo Editor, as a ..."very beautiful, thoughtful, self-published book".

Colin Pantall has picked We Make the Path by Walking for photo-eye's Book of the Week:
..."This is a book of quiet landscapes but they emerge from a more complex place; Gaffney's relationship with the land, with photography and with himself."

An interesting edit of We Make the Path by Walking appears in the latest edition of Unless you will, which can be downloaded here.

I'm one of the featured artists in issue 55 of Fraction Magazine.


September
There's a beautifully written review of We Make the Path by Walking in issue 14 of dienacht magazine.

Ángel Luis González Fernández, director of the PhotoIreland Festival, has nominated We Make the Path by Walking for the Photobook Award 2013 at the 6th International Photobook Festival at Kassel in Germany.

Colin Pantall has written a review of We Make the Path by Walking for his very interesting photography blog.

Some images from my book have recently appeared on One Year of Books and Little Brown Mushroom.

One of my photos has been featured along with four others from New Irish Works in the Irish Independent Weekend magazine.

We Make the Path by Walking has been reviewed by Roy Exley for Photomonitor.


August
My work is featured in NEXT Magazine's Summer 2013 Festivals Special (pages 55/56).


July
We Make the Path by Walking has received some nice exposure in The Guardian in both Sean O'Hagan's article about this year's PhotoIreland festival and their online slideshow of the Best of PhotoIreland 2013 in Pictures.

The exhibition at Instituto Cervantes has been singled out as one of the 'Best Things This Week' on Image Magazine's blog.

Josef Chladek has written the first review of my book, which he says is "very high on [his] 2013 list..."

We Make the Path by Walking has been featured on Conscientious Redux and The Photographic Image.

I'll be showing some of the images from We Make the Path by Walking at the present - tense group show which runs from 12th to 17th July at South Studios in Dublin. The exhibition showcases the work of the recent graduates from the MFA Photography course at the University of Ulster.

A slideshow of We Make the Path by Walking is now showing at the Cortona on the Move festival in Italy, where it will be screened in a little chapel in a disused hospital for the duration of the festival alongside a piece by French artist Jean-Gabriel Periot.

I will be launching my first self-published book We Make the Path by Walking at my exhibition at Instituto Cervantes on 10th July. The show forms part of PhotoIreland Festival's New Irish Works.

I was very proud to have seen several of my images on the big screen at the amphitheatre during the European Publishers Award ceremonies at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in France.


June
I'm thrilled to have been selected by Brian Griffin for a one day solo exhibition at Flowers Gallery on Cork Street in London on July 1st as part of the 30th anniversary of their Artist of the Day series. I'll be showing 29 pieces from We Make the Path by Walking.

I'll be exhibiting some new work from my project We Make the Path by Walking, along with my fellow MFA Photography graduates, as part of the New Talent show which opens on June 7th at the University of Ulster, York St, Belfast (as part of Belfast Photo Festival).

I'm due to feature in a TV advert for the PhotoIreland's New Irish Works, which will be screened on RTE during July. You can check it out here.


May
I will have a solo exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin during this year's PhotoIreland Festival which takes place in July. My show will form part of New Irish Works, the festival's main series of exhibitions, which will showcase 25 contemporary Irish and Irish-based photographers. One of my images has also been used as the main promotional image for the festival and will appear on the cover of the New Irish Works book.

My project was included in broadcaster Sue Steward's survey of the highlights of the recent FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby. You can see a short interview with me at 18min 40sec.


April
The book dummy for We Make the Path by Walking has been shortlisted for the prestigious European Publishers Award for Photography, which was selected by 5 of Europe's top photo book publishers - Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK), Kehrer Verlag (Germany), Actes Sud (France), Blume (Spain) & Peliti Associati (Italy).

My series We Make the Path by Walking has been featured on Ain't Bad Magazine.

Three images from We Make the Path by Walking have been included in a group exhibition of international artists at In Toto Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa.


March
I've received the Johnsons Photopia prize for my portfolio at this year's FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, England.


February
One of my images from We Make the Path by Walking was the winner at the Human Flows exhibition and symposium at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University, which was curated by Sam Barzilay of New York's United Photo Industries.

I'll be giving a talk about my book editing and design process at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin on Wed 6th Feb, along with presentations by fellow photographer Kate Nolan and Matt Johnston from the Photobook Club.