Untitled 2, from the series i

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Eamonn Doyle , Irish, b.1969

Title

MediumArchival pigment print

Dimensions

Image: 80 x 53.3 cm

Credit LinePresented, 2019

Object numberNGI.2019.170

DescriptionBorn in Dublin in 1969, Eamonn Doyle graduated with a Diploma in Photography from IADT in 1991. He spent much of the next twenty years working in the independent music business. In recent years, Doyle has returned to his practice of photography. Most of his work is produced in and around Dublin city centre. Inspired by the solitary characters of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, 'i' is a series of cropped portraits of individuals as they go about their daily lives. Most of the subjects are elderly, which imbues the images with a strong sense of the transience of our existence. In 'i', Doyle presents a sequence of images depicting unknowable figures enveloped entirely in their own interior landscape of street, poised in silent choreography. Doyle has said of his work; “I usually tried to avoid showing the faces. Not showing faces seemed to be a way to evoke the very unknowability of these people, and perhaps, by implication, of all those with whom we have such fleeting, urban encounters”.