Governance - Gallery of Photography

About Gallery of Photography Ireland

Staff Co-Director/CEO Tanya Kiang Co-Director/Company Secretary Trish Lambe
Communications, Installations, Bookshop & Front of House Darragh Shanahan
Digital Arts Studio Production and Training Daniel Scully
Installations, Facilities, Weekend Staff Darren Campion
Accounts Manager Louise Donnelly

Governance
Gallery of Photography Ireland is committed to maintaining the highest standards of governance to ensure full transparency in how we operate.

Company Structure
Irish Gallery of Photography Designated Activity Company is a not for profit organisation. Irish Gallery of Photography DAC (registered business name Gallery of Photography Ireland) is a single member company.

Child Safeguarding Statement
Click here for details of our Child Safeguarding Statement, updated December 2018

GDPR & Privacy Policy
Click here for details of our Privacy Policy – updated May 2018

Gallery of Photography Ireland Data breach Policy
1. Gallery of Photography Ireland takes measures to ensure your personal data is protected. In the event of a significant data breach, and where we determine a significant risk of harm to individuals, damage to operational business and financial, legal and reputational costs to the Gallery of Photography Ireland, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner and all affected individuals will be notified within 72 hours.

2. We keep a record of all data breaches and our assessment of the risk posed.

Governance
The organisation keeps detailed financial records, maintains strict financial controls and is transparent in its audited financial statements. The most recent statement of audited accounts (2018) is here
The Irish Gallery of Photography Designated Activity Company Constitution can be viewed here. To view our commitment to the implementation of the Code of Good Governance click here

Company Secretary Trish Lambe
Company Number 158866
Registered Office Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Auditors Byrne Curtin Kelly, Suite 4 & 5 Bridgewater Business Centre,
Conyngham Road, Islandbridge, Dublin 8, Ireland, D08 T9NH.
Bank AIB 40/41 Westmoreland St.Dublin 2
Business address Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Irish Gallery of Photography (formerly LTD) (business name Gallery of Photography Ireland) held on 9th September 2015 the Board of Directors of the Irish Gallery of Photography Ltd committed to comply with and implement The Governance Code for the Community, Voluntary and Charitable Sector in Ireland.

We are committed to comply with the recommended guidelines for financial guidelines.
We are committed to the implementation of the Code of Governance.
We are committed to comply with the Principles of Good Fundraising.
To view remuneration packages of senior staff click here

Board
There are currently six Board Directors, each with expertise in a variety of fields of profession. Board members serve a term of 5 years and are replaced on rotation.

Our Current Board members are:

Paul Geraghty (appointed Chair January 2019)
Paul Geraghty is a technology entrepreneur and founder of Picturk.com. Picturk supports organisations that promote art and its makers by providing the leading curation platform to run Open Calls, Awards and Prizes. Picturk.com drives the Syngenta Photo Award, the Prize for Contemporary African Photography (where he serves as a director), and Bird Photographer of the Year. Paul has broad international experience having worked with organisations in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Joined Board April 2016.

Yetti Redmond
Yetti Redmond is an award winning senior producer – formerly with RTÉ Radio 1. As well as producing high quality programmes over 20 years with the station, she was lead producer on various public events relating to Ireland’s decade of centenaries. She was the creative force behind the RTÉ World War 1 Roadshow (Trinity College: 2014), RTÉ Road to the Rising (O’Connell St & surrounds: 2015) and RTÉ Reflecting the Rising (Spanning much of Dublin city centre: 2016). She has developed many radio series including The History Show, Miriam Meets and specialist series on food and health. Her weekday credits include The Gay Byrne Show, Liveline and the Arts Show. Prior to joining RTÉ, she worked as a print and broadcast journalist in Dublin and Belfast, worked in public relations in Dublin and for three years, ran her own publicity business in New Zealand. Joined Board October 2016

Stephanie McBride
Stephanie McBride is an academic, broadcaster and critic who writes and lectures on film, media and visual culture. Formerly, Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at DCU, Tutor in arts, literature and film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she has also taught in Visual Culture at NCAD. Selected publications include The Cinema of Place/The Place of Cinema, Ireland into Film:Felicia’s Journey. Her Intermedia column appeared in The Irish Times; a film and tv columnist with CIRCA Art Magazine, where she also edited a number of issues on film, art education, art and science; a contributor to Irish Arts Review.

Luke Gibbons
Luke Gibbons, is Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at the School of English, Drama and Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and formerly taught at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and Dublin City University. He has published widely on Irish culture, film, literature, and the visual arts, as well as on aesthetics and politics. His many publications include ‘Ghostly Light: Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce’s and John Huston’s ‘The Dead’, in A Companion to James Joyce, (Richard Brown, ed., Blackwell, 2007) and ‘Famished Ghosts: Bloom, Bible Wars, and “U.P. up” in Joyce’s Dublin’, Dublin James Joyce Journal, 2 (2010). Joined Board September 2018.

William Fagan
William is a retired public servant, photographer and photographic historian. In his public service career William served in the Departments of Labour, Finance and the Public Service. He was involved in the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman where he became Director in 1987. He subsequently served as Director of Consumer Affairs for 8 years. In 1998 William joined the private sector where he became Director of Regulatory Affairs and Communications at Chorus Communications (shareholders Independent News and Media and Liberty Media) where he was involved in the introduction of broadband and digital TV into Ireland. He served on the board of ICT Ireland, a digital industry body established by IBEC. In 2006 William went to work for the Government of Qatar where he established a telecoms regulator which liberalised the Qatari telecoms market. William has worked as a consultant specialising in the areas of broadband and regulatory training. He is a member of the Institute of International and European Affairs ( IIEA) and the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), the Dublin Camera Club, the Leica Society (UK), the LHSA – the International Leica Society (US) and the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain (PCCGB). He has written articles on photography, photographic equipment and photographic history for magazines in the UK, US and Ireland and is currently researching the history of photography in Ireland from 1840 to the present. Joined Board August 2019.

Audrey Brennan

Audrey Brennan has over 19 years experience working at a senior level in the areas of fundraising and media relations for several arts organisations, including the Royal Hibernian Academy, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin Contemporary 2011 and The Hennessy Literary Awards. From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the board of Circa Art Magazine.

In 2015, she was awarded a Masters in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship by Trinity College Dublin. Her studies included extensive research into revenue generation by commercial enterprises within art galleries.

Audrey is looking forward to working with the Board and Executive in forwarding the Gallery’s marketing and development programmes.Joined the board 2020.

Tom Burke
Tom Burke has been making film and video projects of varying scales and styles for over a decade. Working primarily in the documentary form, he often assumes a shooting director role, and more often than not will be the editor of his own films. At Areaman Productions from 2007 to 2017, Tom was able to mix factual television projects with more aesthetically driven Irish Film Board funded shortform docs. In 2017, he established Broadstone Films in order to pursue his feature documentary and fiction project ambitions. Joined the Board 2020.

Orla Fitzpatrick
Orla is a photographic historian from Dublin, Ireland. Her PhD from Ulster University was on the topic of ‘Modernism, modernity and the Irish photographic book, 1922-1949.’ Publications include articles on Irish photographic history and material culture for publications such as ‘Éire-Ireland’ and ‘Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies’. She has also curated several photographic exhibitions and produced a photographic monograph for the National Library of Ireland. Her acclaimed blog www.jacolette.com covers vernacular Irish photography. She is a regular contributor to ‘Source: Photographic Review.’ She has worked in the area of librarianship since 1994.