Dublin Green Communities Photography Awards 2018

"Sensory Love" - celebrating the beauty and diverse character of Ireland’s Community Gardens through the first Dublin Green Communities Photography Awards. Photo courtesy of An Taisce.

The new Green Communities photo competition promoted the best images of community green space projects from across the whole country in one exhibition.

Landscape

13 September 2018

Today, An Taisce Environmental Education announced the winners of the new Green Communities Garden Photography Competition.

Celebrating the beauty and diverse character of Ireland’s Community Gardens. These community green spaces have brought a breath of fresh air to many city streets, and estates, as well as delivering community amenities in rural villages and towns across Ireland.

These garden projects have contributed a great deal to our collective quality of life over the last decade, sometimes in unexpected ways. Their contribution towards community interaction is strengthened by community gardening’s inclusiveness. Indeed gardening is one of the few activities that people from all walks of life can, and do, engage in.

“Field of dreams”. Photo courtesy of An Taisce.

To celebrate all the hard-won successes from scores of different community gardens, allotments, community orchards, and volunteer landscaping projects, this new Green Communities photo competition promotes the best images of community green space projects from across the whole country in one exhibition.

The photography competition was opened to everyone, the only requirement being for photographs that feature volunteer community green spaces. All such projects and their neighbourhoods stand to benefit from this national promotion of successful horticultural improvement.

By bringing together the best images of these gardens An Taisce Green Communities celebrates the success of your community spirit in making Ireland a greener place for people, plants, and biodiversity.

Nearly 40 different community gardens, allotments, orchards and community parks entered this first year of the new garden photography competition. With a prize fund of over €1,000 there are three categories in the competition: Garden Activity, Nature in the Garden, and Landscapes/Citiscapes.

2018 Winners:

Gardening Activity:
1^st Prize: Bridie McAndrew	_{Ballina Karen Community Garden}
2^nd Prize: Samantha Nicholl	_{Sean Walsh Park Sensory Garden}
3^rd Prize: Samantha Nicholl	_{Sean Walsh Park Sensory Garden}

Nature in the Garden:
1^st Prize: Bridie McAndrew	_{Ballina Karen Community Garden}
2^nd Prize: Jacqueline Sheenan	_{Solas Glan Community Garden}
3^rd Prize: Agnieszka Szewc	_{Powerstown Allotment}

Landscapes and Cityscapes:
1^st Prize: Martin Obst	_{NCAD Community Garden}
2nd Prize: Bridie McAndrew	_{Ballina Karen Community Garden}
3^rd Prize: Dave Dodd	_{Holywell Educate Together Sensory Garden}

Transdev Prize
Derek O’Reilly	_{Broadstone Community Garden}