2017 - Irish Premiere Exhibition of Krass Clement’s Drum and Dublin Work in Gallery of Photography Ireland

Krass Clement’s ‘Drum’ was published in 1996, and is a photobook classic. All the images in it were, famously, shot in the course of one evening. His Dublin photographs were presented for the first time as a book and exhibition at Gallery of Photography Ireland in 2017.

“The Gallery of Photography’s invitation to revisit Drum 25 years on brought one of two surprises (the discovery that one of the men in the bar was the father of arts minister Heather Humphreys, for example), and spurred him to revisit the Dublin photographs from the same Irish visit. They had never gotten beyond contact sheets. Suddenly he was in the position of making an exhibition and, as it transpired, a new book, based on photographs taken 25 years previously.” Aidan Dunne, Irish Times.

The programme also featured a public art weekend in Drum village, Monaghan where Krass presented his work to the people of Drum as an projection installation in the original pub. Artist Kevin Fox worked with local people to create a contemporary portrait of Drum.