Living with Pride: Photographs by Christopher Robson, a National Library of Ireland exhibition, will open at the National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar in Summer 2021, subject to the prevailing public health advice. A fully virtual version of the exhibition will be available online.

Panti Bliss - Dublin 2003
Photo by Christopher Robson - Panti Bliss - Dublin 2003

Christopher Robson was a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN). His photographic collection of around 2,000 slides, which document LGBTI+ life and activism in Ireland and elsewhere, was donated to the Library in 2015. The exhibition will focus specifically on Robson’s photography, life, work and achievements.

Photographs include LGBTI+ protests in Dublin, Paris and New York, and seminal moments at home, including the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993, alongside Dublin Pride marches over the years, featuring well-known figures such as The Diceman and Panti Bliss. Visitors to the in-person and virtual exhibition should expect a show of colour, defiance, celebration and community, and to learn more about the man who captured so much of Ireland’s remarkable trajectory for LGBTI+ equality.

The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive programme of events running through 2021 exploring Irish LGBTI+ identity and experience during the last several decades and into the present day.

For more information, visit www.nli.ie.

What: Living with Pride: Photographs by Christopher Robson
When: Summer 2021. Open Daily; see www.nli.ie for opening hours.
Venue: National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 and online via www.nli.ie.
Admission: Free.

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