Eamonn Doyle’s (b. 1969) ‘Beckettian’ portraits of elderly inhabitants of his native Dublin are a bold new presentation of a familiar genre. At once candid and composed, they capture the colour and frailty of the human condition in an urban environment. His timeless characters provide a meditation on the act of photography itself, of fleeting encounters captured, a transient moment immortalised.
Doyle’s debut photobook ‘i’ released in 2014 was described by Martin Parr as ‘the best photo book in a decade.’
"I started photographing in and around Dublin city centre in the late 1980s, but I took something of a hiatus from photography in the late 1990s in order to concentrate on music. Returning to photography in recent years, I set out to work with what I knew. As a long-term resident of Parnell Street in Dublin's north inner city, there was a wealth of photographic subjects on my doorstep. It's an old working class area, now quite multicultural. At times it's edgy and raw and vibrant, while at others, it seems half-sunk in a weary pathos. This set of photographs came about over a long reflective period in which I was re-reading Beckett. While photographing, I began to strip away as much of the context and background from the subjects as I could. The subjects are all shot at close range, but respectfully, perhaps even reverently. The pictures show only fragments of possible narratives, but for me, every life has weight and drama, even if its meaning is ultimately elusive." - Eamonn Doyle
Untitled
40 x 60 cm (15.7 x 23.6“)
Edition of 8
Pigment print
(EACH)
We will be exhibiting a grid of 9 works by Eamonn Doyle from a series of 30+ images. Please enquire for further details of his work.
In total we will be exhibiting 40 works from 18 artists at Aipad this year.
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AIPAD PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 2015
16 - 18 April, New York.
