Biography
Ángel Luis González Fernández was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1974. His interest in media is deep and wide-ranging; he studied journalism, 3D design, graphic design, and finally graduated in Photography while managing his own web design company, Quomo, established in 2001.
Amongst his previous projects is 'Mr Garlic', an underground magazine that included work by young Spanish writers and illustrators, in a themed trilogy of love, rage and madness.
In 2006, his short film 'Marian', about the life of a young immigrant kid living in the changing Dublin, was shortlisted for the Darklight Film Festival and the Nokia/Darklight Pocket Movie Challenge and featured in the festival's catalogue.
He currently lives in Dublin, where he is developing Ireland's first International Festival of Photography and Visual Culture
Motto
There is no colour, only light.
Bohoe is particularly interested in the complex extent of the photographic language and the importance of context as originator of meaning. While how we read a photograph has been the matter of many of the most important academic writings in the last century, very little has been done to promote literacy in our image based world. Bohoe believes that a photographer's practice must be an informed one, critically and historically aware of the language at use, whether working for a commissioned job or for a personal artistic project.
It is only then that Photography as a language becomes whole, and one refrains from being distracted by nice colours: there is no colour, only light.
In Short
Dublin based photographer Bohoe graduated at the Dublin Institute of Technology, He counts amongst his clients some of the best known names in Ireland, like Trinity College, AIB and Clerys, and has published work in national papers like The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Independent. He is involved in a number of ongoing projects, both commissioned and personal, some of which feature in this site.
Education
2010-2011 MAVIS, MA in Visual Arts Practices, Curatorial Strand, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
2010 PhotoIreland Festival Currently developing Ireland's first International Festival of Photography and Visual Culture.
2007 Second Class Honours, B.A. (Hons) Photography, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Thesis: ‘Art In The Archive, Documents In The Gallery: The Contradictory Discourses That Surround Photographic Practices’. Elective Modules: Curatorial Practice, Documentary Practice.
2003 Studio Techniques, Part-time course, Dublin Institute of Technology.
2002 New Media Creative Design. Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Curved St., Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
2001 Digital Audio-visual Applications. Foundation in Macromedia Director and Adobe Photoshop. Arthouse Multimedia Centre Curved St., Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
2000 Full time course in IT and Auto CAD R14 and 2000.FAS Training Centre CABRA, Bannow Road, Dublin 7.
1995 Journalism and Broadcasting Media. European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Group Exhibitions
Nov 2009 - Feb 2010 Unframed
Man-Made Images Gallery, Mountcharles, Co Donegal.
Nov 2008 Ireland [an insider’s view]
European Month of Photography, Berlin, Germany.Organised by the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, and supported by Culture Ireland.
Jul 2008 Ireland [an insider’s view]
Les Rencontres d'Arles 08, France. Organised by the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, and supported by Culture Ireland.
2007 Photoworks 2007
The National Photographic Archive and the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland. (Catalogue)
2007 Group Exhibition
Bad Art Gallery, 79 Francis St., Dublin 8.
2006 Darklight Film Festival 2006
Irish Film Institute, Dublin Ireland.
'Marian' short film.
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Inside the CameraCafé Noto Gallery, 79 Thomas St., Dublin 8.
Co-Curated Projects
2006 PORTENT, The Back Loft c/o La Catedral Studios, Dublin 8. Catalogue
2005 FINDINGS, The LAB, Dublin 1. Catalogue
Reviews and Articles
2009 "There's a touch of magic to Spanish-born Bohoe's work"
Love at second sight by Aidan Dunne. The Irish Times, Friday, November 27, 2009.
2008 Photography-now.com.
'Ireland: An insiders view' at the Irish Embassy in Berlin. Botschaft von Irland.
2008 Europaisher Monat Der Fotografie Berlin.
'Ireland: An insiders view' at the Irish Embassy in Berlin. Botschaft von Irland.
2008 'Ireland: An insiders view'. Arles.
Feature: The Gallery of Photography web site.
2007 'A new wave of Irish Art' by Aidan Dunne. The Irish Times, Wednesday June 27th 2007, p. 14.
(review of ‘Photoworks’)
2007 Graduate Photography Online. Source Magazine, since June 2007. http://www.source.ie/graduate
2007 ’Photoworks 2007’. Gallery of Photography, since June 2007.
http://galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions
2006 ’The future of photography’ by David Lynch. Daily Ireland, Thursday May 18th 2006, p. 22. (review of curated project)
2006 Darklight Film Festival 2006, web site and catalogue review, www.darklight.ie
Published work in print
2007 Source Magazine.
Reference to project 'Aisling, The Vision'.
2007 Sunday Business Post.
Babypotz product photography.
2007 Irish Independent.
Seagrass review.
2005 The Dubliner.
David McDermott at 'Spy' Dublin.
On the Internet
The Gallery of Photography Exhibitions
iStockphoto Stock Photography
Pix.ie Everyday records
Clerys Bed Store Product Photography
Brian Jacobson Jewellery
Merrion Fleet Portraits
Babypotz Product Photography
Seagrass Restaurant Food Photography
Il Posto Restaurant Food Photography
Ouch Entertainment Promos
