Enda Bowe is an Irish photographer that lives and works in London. His publications include ''Kilburn Cherry'' (2013) and ''At Mirrored River'' (2016). Bowe was joint winner of the SOLAS Ireland award in 2015 and won second prize in the 2018 and 2019

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual photographic portrait prize awarded by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was established in 2003 as the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize. In the years 2006 and 2007 it was ...

. He has had solo exhibitions in Carlow and in Dublin.

Work

''Kilburn Cherry'' is a collection of photographs of

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s in

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, traditionally the home of the

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. The work was inspired by Japanese

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poetry. Bowe has said the "bold appearance of the cherry blossom seemed to play with ideas of hopefulness and revival". ''At Mirrored River'' was made over four years in an unspecified Irish midlands town. It contains portraits of young people at a point of transition to adulthood, depicted in their home setting of housing estates, supermarkets and social functions, juxtaposed with images of the town and its surrounding landscape.

Publications

Publications by Bowe

*''Kilburn Cherry.'' Includes a poem by

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("Renku: My Last Thirty-Five Deaths"). **First edition. London: Jane & Jeremy, 2013. Edition of 100 copies. **Second edition. London: Jane & Jeremy, 2016. Edition of 100 copies. *''At Mirrored River.'' Blue Swallow, 2016. . Includes a poem by

John Glenday John Glenday grew up in Monifieth. Life John lives in Angus, with his wife Erika. His work appeared in ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''London Review of Books'', ''Poetry ''(Chicago), ''The Scotsman'', ''The Guardian'', ''Financial Times'', '' ...

("The River") and a short story by

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("Days"). Edition of 800 copies. *''This Thing I Want. I Know Not What.'' Paper Tiger, 2018.

Zines by Bowe

*''Me and My Friends.'' Issue 4. Nicole Bachmann.

Awards

*2015: One of 7 joint winners, SOLAS Ireland award, ''

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'' and Gallery of Photography, for ''At Mirrored River.'' The other winners were Ciarán Óg Arnold,

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, Emer Gillespie, Shane Lynam, Dara McGrath and Yvette Monahan. *2018: Second prize,

National Portrait Gallery, London The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it ...

for "Cybil McAddy with daughter Lulu" *2019: Second prize, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London for "Neil", a portrait from a series exploring youth culture on either side of the Belfast peace lines *2019: First Prize, Zurich Portrait Prize,

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''At Mirrored River,'' Visual Centre of Contemporary Art Carlow, Carlow, Ireland, 2016 as part of PhotoIreland Festival. *''At Mirrored River,'' The Library Project, Dublin, 2018 as part of PhotoIreland Festival.

Group exhibitions

*"Samantha Nolan" in ''Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize,'' National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010. *''Plat(t)form,''

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, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2011. *SOLAS Photography Award Winners, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 2015. Work from ''At Mirrored River.'' *''Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize,'' National Portrait Gallery, London, 2018. *''Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize,'' National Portrait Gallery, London, 2019.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowe, Enda Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Irish photographers