Eamonn Doyle イーモン・ドイル
K
With the support of the Government of Ireland
Curated by Niall Sweeney
Born in Dublin in 1969, Eamonn Doyle studied painting and photography. He founded the internationally acclaimed D1 Recordings in 1996 and spent much of the next 20 years producing music and working in the independent music business.
In 2008 Doyle returned to photography and his subsequent Dublin trilogy of work (i, ON, End.), formed the centre-piece exhibition at Rencontres d'Arles in 2016. Fundación Mapfre Madrid staged the first comprehensive exhibition of his work in 2019. In 2024 Doyle was awarded The David Octavius Hill Medal by The German Photographic Academy. Doyle still lives and works where it all began, just off Parnell Street in Dublin. His music continues to feature as a fundamental aspect of his work, particularly in exhibitions and collaborative film works.
Doyle will exhibit the series K at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2025. In K, Doyle reflects on the impact of his brother's sudden passing on their mother, Kathryn. He layers the letters Kathryn wrote to her late son with images of a shrouded, spectral figure together with a specially composed sound work by David Donohoe based on Irish lamentation song, to create a powerful meditation on grief through photography, metaphor and sound.