Popular Irish photographer to conduct photography workshop in local Tipperary arts centre

As part of the ‘Love's Fire Song’ exhibition, photographer Enda Bowe presents a masterclass at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles.

Enda Bowe Photography Workshop focuses on seeing the special in the ordinary, the sometimes noticed or often forgotten things we see, live in, or walk by every day.

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The workshop takes place on Saturday, April 12.

Tickets are €80, and spaces are limited to ten people.

Enda will show a selection of slides of books and images that inspire him, a short video, take guests through his work process and then talk with the group about their own work and ideas on photography.

Attendees will then have the opportunity to go out on the streets and take some shots of their own, with a review later.

This is a great opportunity to get hands-on interaction with one of Ireland’s best photographers.

The organisers ask that you bring a camera and some samples of your work.

Enda Bowe’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Red Hook Gallery, New York; Gallery of Photography Ireland; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the National Portrait Gallery, London; Fotohof, Salzburg; The Visual Centre Of Contemporary Art, Ireland and most recently in The Other Side, Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany.

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His collection of work At Mirrored River received the international Solas Photography Award 2015.

He was nominated for the Prix Pictet Award 2016 and the Deutsche Borse Foundation Photography Prize 2016.

In the UK, his work has been shortlisted for the National Gallery Portrait Prize for 2019 for Love’s Fire Song and was runner-up for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize in 2019.

Bowe’s first monograph Kilburn Cherry was published by J&J Books and received the Birgit Skiold Artist Award 2014 from the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

In self-publishing his photobook At Mirrored River the artist was kindly supported by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Oscar nominated director Ken Loach and writer Colm Toibín.

This book coincided with the exhibition of At Mirrored River at The Visual Centre of Contemporary Art, Ireland.

His third monograph This Thing I Want.

I Know Not What, inspired by Carson McCuller's novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published by Paper Tiger Books in 2018. Bowe worked with Lenny Abrahamson on the acclaimed tv series Normal People.

Bowe was the winner of the National Gallery of Ireland Zurich Portrait Prize 2019.