Enda Bowe

Enda Bowe is an Irish photographer that lives and works in Ireland . His publications include Kilburn Cherry 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 internationally.

Work Kilburn Cherry is a collection of photographs of cherry blossoms in Kilburn, London, The work was inspired by Japanese renku poetry. 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. 2018: Second prize, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London 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, National Gallery of Ireland

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, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 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.