Enda Bowe’s work is concerned with story telling and the search of light and beauty in the ordinary. Influences in his work include writer John McGahern, poet John Glenday, and directors Lynne amsey, Eve Arnold and Lenny Abrahamson.
Enda’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including the V&A , London, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, the National Portrait Gallery, London, Fotohof, Salzburg and Fotomuseum, Winterthur. Enda is a committed artist who approaches personal projects with passion, dedication and attention to detail.
About ‘Songs from boni’:
Belfast is a city segregated and divided: its so-called ‘peace walls’, built to separate Unionist and Nationalist communities, are taller in places even than the Berlin Wall. For his current project, Songs From Boni, Enda photographed youth culture on either side of the peace walls, choosing the symbolic bonfires of the 12th July and 8th August as his starting point. Rather than the expected images, laden with political and religious imagery, he concentrated on the ordinary, the everyday.
The photographs are shown as a coherent series, using a muted colour palette with only subtle symbolisms, and without reference to the specific locations they were taken. Free from political and geographical context, the photographs speak of longing, yearning, aspirations and vulnerabilities of young people in Belfast today; their myriad joys and sorrows; lingering on the moments that can resonate with us all, independent of our individual backgrounds and inherited place and beliefs. Enda hope to have Songs From Boni published and exhibited for autumn 2017.
