OVER Journal

11/03/2026

In the latest article online at overjournal.org curator Valeria Posada-Villada writes on Nadège Mazar’s ‘Mama Coca’ questioning the image of the coca plant by suggesting a more inclusive perspective.

“Nadège Mazars, a French photographer living in Colombia since 2007, is known for taking a holistic approach to exploring the effects of global issues related to migration, nature, and war and peace. Mama Coca, a multi-faceted project that was exhibited before and is now also published as an artist book, includes photo series, texts, and historical and documentary archives. It results from a photographic investigation that aims to deconstruct prejudices about the coca plant, and the narrative developed from the countries of the global North, reducing it to an illicit product. 

Mazars’ more experimental and fluid approach to camera use—long exposures, tight crops, and playful manipulations of colour— supports the spirit of coca that inhabits the territory. This exploration evokes the feeling that the plant is a living presence, intertwined with its landscape and its people.”

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16/02/2026

In the latest article online at overjournal.org, Julia Gelezova discusses the latest work of artist Saskia Holmkvist, which takes its departure point from a 2001 performance by Belfast artist Heather Allen, and the limits and benefits of translation within artistic practices.

“There is much to be gained from encouraging a shared experience, a shared life, and a shared state of being and of feeling. Holmkvist’s approach brings this to the fore, suggesting that this is an obligation, a responsibility we have to learn about and regard one another. In contrast to the exploitative precedents and examples of representation, Holmkvist’s process is deeply embedded in empathy and the genuine desire to want to relate and to understand. ‘Margaret (Back Translation)’ is an exercise in solidarity, amalgamating critical fabulation, documentary techniques, archival footage, and testimonies. The resulting piece advances the image as a site at which social and political realities can be reimagined and revisited.”

Saskia Holmkvist’s solo exhibition ‘KLub’, curated by Corina Oprea, runs at Fotogalleriet Oslo until 22nd February 2026. Thank you to for the invitation and opportunity to meet the artist.

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11/01/2026

In our new online only feature curator Zippora Elders in conversation with artist Selma Selman.

Selma Selman deliberately presents herself as an artist with Romani origin, rather than simply as a Romani artist. The poverty and social exclusion she experienced throughout her upbringing echoes in her artistic practice, spanning painting, sculpture and performance; unique and personal expressions yet decidedly connected to both contemporary visual culture and art history. She won The Tajsa Roma Cultural Heritage Prize 2025, which embodies Roma pride and honours the outstanding creative achievements of Roma artists and cultural producers across diverse fields.

At the core of her practice, balancing on levels of both technical skill and metaphor, are themes of desire and self-determination, through which she critically explores the limits of, and restrictions placed on, individual and collective identity.

Read it in full exclusively at overjournal.org

Image Credits:
1. ‘Ophelia’s Awakening’ installation photograph by Dávid Tóth
2-4. Installation and event photographs by Eike Walkenhorst
5. Portrait of the artist by Vanesa Miteva

05/11/2025

On the 25th October, at the International Centre for the Image in Dublin, we celebrated the launch of not one but TWO issues of OVER Journal: issue 4 and a special issue 5. The launch coincided with the official opening of the Centre’s two new exhibitions, David Farrell’s ‘Solastalgia’ and Cristina De Middel’s ‘Journey to the Center’ who took us through their work in two artist talks.

David Farrell was previously featured in issue 1 and Cristina De Middel has contributed with a very personal text to issue 5. All issues are available at overjournal.org and shipped internationally!

23/10/2025

Join us this Saturday 25th October at 1pm for the launch of OVER Journal issues 4 and 5 at the International Centre for the Image in Dublin. The launch will coincide with the official opening of the centre’s two new exhibitions, David Farrell’s ‘Solastalgia’ and Cristina De Middel’s ‘Journey to the Center’. David Farrell was previously featured in issue 1, and Cristina De Middel has contributed with a very personal text to issue 5.

With the support of the Arts Council of Ireland, co-editors Julia Gelezova, Ángel Luis González Fernández, Aidan Kelly Murphy, and Erik Vroons have produced two new issues of the journal, offering an in-depth review of selected themes that define contemporary photographic practices today.

Schedule for Sat 25 October 2025
1pm OVER Journal launch: Introduction to the latest issues and artist talk with Cristina De Middel
2pm Artist talk in the gallery with David Farrell

19/09/2025

New article online at overjournal.org
Colin Graham writes on forging a space for rethinking the image, reviewing ‘Foreword’, the inaugural exhibition of the International Centre for the Image, opened by in Dublin, Ireland, last July.

“As photography has gradually, and then dramatically, dematerialised into the digital image, its practitioners have remade its possibilities through accelerating the formal changes which are taking place via the digital, by ironically playing with those processes of change, or by knowingly reversing them. Photographers and image makers forget photography by remembering it anew, with astringency, irony, critique, obliquity and deliberative nostalgia.”

This article was made possible thanks to the support of the .

17/03/2025

Prologue to the Return of The Real: Sara Muthi on the paradox of hyperreality in the work of Paul Pfeiffer. Online only article made possible by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao and its staff.

https://www.overjournal.org/article/prologue-to-the-return-of-the-real

All images © Paul Pfeiffer, Bilbao, 2024. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Documentation images by Steven Probert and Jens Ziehe.

Sara Muthi on the paradox of hyperreality in the work of Paul Pfeiffer.

31/08/2024

'Now is the time' by Una Mullally and Dorje de Burgh. New article online at https://www.overjournal.org/

Last October, Una Mullally was posting a letter to Dorje de Burgh from New York City when she found a poem on the counter of the post office. It was titled 'Grandfather’s Key', author unknown.

Last March, at the 'Gig for Gaza' in Berlin, she read that poem, along with another, 'Now Is The Time', which she had written for Jules Fogarty, one of the organisers, on the day of the concert.

Since then, Dorje has been photographing the Palestinian solidarity protests in Berlin, where police violence against peaceful protestors is increasing.

Together, Una and Dorje have published both Una’s poem and Dorje’s photographs in a zine that serves as an object of solidarity and also a donation mechanism (all proceeds, not a percentage) for Palestinian fundraising drives in Berlin raising money to help and assist loved ones in Gaza through the Gazamutualaid Collective

'Now Is The Time' was recently launched in NYC, by returning a copy to the post office counter where Una found 'Grandfather’s Key'. Published on 4Ls Press, the zine is now available at The Library Project
https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/latest-arrivals/products/now-is-the-time-dorje-de-burgh

10/11/2023

Introducing the new online platform for OVER Journal, designed by and developed together with . It will host most of the content of the printed publications. In addition, online-only content will be published monthly with the first of such articles being a never-released Natasha Christia’s postscript to ‘A Series of Formulations’, an article published in issue 1. There is a lot of free content to enjoy!
The launch took place at the during the get-together ‘Critical Beans’ hosted by and .
OVER Journal is kindly supported by the

09/11/2022

Are you at Paris Photo this week? Join us tomorrow night for the Centre Culturel Irlandais‘ programme of events where we present the new issue of OVER Journal!

Between 5-8pm, visitors will find a stand dedicated to the new issue of OVER Journal, presenting previous issues and a selection of Irish publications available for purchase. You will be able to browse a digital version of OVER Journal Issue 3 and pre-order it at a special price ahead of the printed version arriving in December. The co-editors and some of the contributors will be present and look forward to meeting you!

Not able to attend? Pre-order OVER Journal Issue 3 online and enjoy a 25% discount. See link in bio!


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