Enda Bowe is an Irish photographer that lives and works in London.[1] 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. He has had solo exhibitions in Carlow and in Dublin.
Work
Kilburn Cherry is a collection of photographs of
cherry blossoms in
Kilburn, London,[1] traditionally the home of the
Irish diaspora.[2] The work was inspired by Japanese
renku poetry.[2] Bowe has said the "bold appearance of the cherry blossom seemed to play with ideas of hopefulness and revival".[2]
At Mirrored River was made over four years in an unspecified Irish midlands town.[1][3] 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.[1][3]
Publications
Publications by Bowe
Kilburn Cherry. Includes a poem by
Don Paterson ("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.
ISBN978-3902993304. Includes a poem by
John Glenday ("The River") and a short story by
Lucy Caldwell ("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, Source and
Gallery of Photography, for At Mirrored River. The other winners were Ciarán Óg Arnold,
Eamonn Doyle, Emer Gillespie, Shane Lynam, Dara McGrath and Yvette Monahan.[4][5][6]
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[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]