NLI/EPA Photographer-In-Residence
National Library of Ireland partners with Environmental Protection Agency for first Photographer-In-Residence
In 2024 and 2025, the National Library of Ireland and the Environmental Protection Agency worked with photographer Paula T Nolan to document Ireland’s environment. For ReViewing Ireland: A Photo Study of Ireland’s Environment, Paula travelled through all 26 counties by public transport and e-bike. Along the way, she photographed landscapes, communities, farms, rivers, coastlines, towns, businesses, people and places shaped by environmental change.
The project records both progress and pressure in Ireland’s environmental story. Paula’s photographs have been catalogued and preserved as part of the digital collecting activities of the National Library of Ireland. Four hundred of these ‘born-digital’ photographs can be viewed online on the online catalogue.
Together, these photographs create a record of Ireland today, and of how human activity shapes our environment.
Read more about the Then & Now aspect of the project here.
Meet our Photographer-in-Residence
Paula T. Nolan is an artist and documentary photographer based in Dublin 3. Her work has been exhibited by The Paul Kane Gallery, in numerous RHA Annual Exhibitions and by the Office of Public Works in Farmleigh.
Read more about Paula and her journey around Ireland as NLI and EPA Photographer-In-Residence via her Instagram here.
