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LOVE’S FIRE SONG We featured Enda Bowe’s portrait
of ‘Neil’ in our In The Frame section of the mag last year. That went on to scoop second prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing competition. Bowe subsequently went on to win the Zurich Portrait Prize for his portrait of Cybil McCaddy with her daughter Lulu. Love’s Fire Song marks the re-opening of the Gallery of Photography and brings together Bowe’s work with young people in Northern Ireland. It is accompanied by a sound installation by electronic musician Max Cooper. “Rather than the expected images, laden with political and religious imagery, l concentrate on the ordinary, the everyday,” said Bowe when contributing to In The Frame. “The photographs are shown as a coherent series, using a saturated colour palette with only subtle symbolisms, and without visual reference to the specific locations they were taken. Free from political and geographical context, the photographs speak of longing, yearning, aspirations and vulnerabilities of young people in Belfast today; their myriad joys and sorrows; lingering on the moments that can resonate with us all, independent of our individual backgrounds and inherited place and beliefs.” Wednesday to Saturday, 11am-4pm endabowe.com ROADMAP Michael McDermott DEEZY DOES IT Care to benchmark your design and architectural project against award-winning criteria? Perhaps, it’s worth considering what Deezen, the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design magazine, used in selecting its Awards long-list this year which includes Kingston Lafferty Design in its nominations for ‘Emerging Interior Designer of the Year’ and London-based Bryan O’Sullivan Studio in the ‘Bar Interior’ category for work on the Berkeley Bar and Terrace in Knightsbridge, pictured. As for the criteria, the judges which include Norman Foster and MOMA’s Paola Antonelli, here’s your post-it-note considerations for future undertakings. Can you digit… Got the digits but shy of displaying them? Designer and Fumballista Swan will hand paint your house number for you iamswan.com 6 Beautiful: does it look amazing? We know that beauty is subjective, but our judges will be looking out for aesthetic rigour, good detailing and good use of materials. Innovative: does it incorporate original thinking or address a problem in a new way? We don’t mean that every entry has to reinvent the wheel, but we will be looking for evidence of fresh approaches and new ideas. Beneficial: is it useful and considerate to both people and planet? Your project doesn’t have to set out to save the world, but it should show respect and consideration for users and the environment. dezeen.com/awards/2020/longlists kingstonlaffertydesign.com bos-studio.com