Biography

Enda Bowe – Film Stills & Portrait Photographer, Ireland & UK

Enda Bowe is a photographer whose work explores cinematic narratives — blending documentary and staged photography to trace the physical and psychological landscapes of the everyday. His photographs move between the urban and suburban, the personal and universal, creating emotionally charged portraits and quiet visual stories.

Film Stills Photographer – Ireland & UK

Enda has worked extensively as a unit stills photographer in both film and television, bringing his distinctive eye for intimacy and atmosphere to screen-based storytelling. He collaborated with director Lenny Abrahamson as stills photographer on the acclaimed TV series Normal People and Conversations With Friends, and has since worked on several major productions, including:
• God’s Creatures (Emily Watson, Paul Mescal)
• Small Things Like These (Cillian Murphy)
• In the Land of Saints and Sinners (Liam Neeson)
• What It Feels Like For A Girl (Ellis Howard)

For Enda, working as a photographer in film and television is the continuation of a lifelong fascination with cinema — a world he approaches with deep sensitivity, care, and attention to detail.

“I’ve returned to his photographs often, when I feel the need to be reminded of that extraordinary relationship that can exist between the looker and the looked-at… Enda’s subjects are responding to him as a very special, deeply empathetic human being.”
— Lenny Abrahamson, 2020

Exhibitions & Recognition

Enda’s photographic work has been exhibited widely, with solo and group shows at:
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• Red Hook Gallery, New York
• The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
• National Portrait Gallery, London
• Fotohof, Salzburg
• Dortmund U, Germany
• The Gallery of Photography, Dublin
• The Visual Centre of Contemporary Art, Carlow
• Museum Hilversum, The Netherlands

Awards include the Zürich Portrait Prize (2019), National Gallery of Ireland, and two consecutive Taylor Wessing Portrait Prizes (2018 & 2019), with a nomination again in 2023. He was also long-listed for the Prix Pictet for his project Love’s Fire Song.

About
Enda is a committed Irish film stills photographer who brings the same passion and integrity to commissioned and personal projects alike. He lives and works between Dublin and London.