Artist Max Bwire calls for Arts Fund

By Stephen Ssenkaaba

Very few young people today venture out into the uncharted waters of business. For Max Bwire, a young enterprising photographer, absence of employment has been an impetus to create opportunities for herself and like-minded young people. 

She and a group of male friends started Blush media three years ago.

Today it is a thriving company that deals in professional branding, designing and photography.

Now, Bwire has her eyes set on some more challenging work.  The University of Westminster graduate is set to explore the possibilities of art  in a new photo exhibition set for September.

“This is an opportunity for me to use art to reach out to the public by creatively exploring lives, she said. The exhibition will showcase her work in photography, a part of which The New Vision has seen.

My photos, My passion

For Bwire photography is a “visual tool and a way of communicating with the world about issues that I am passionate
about, issues that affect me and I believe are important.”

Bwire’s work examines ordinary lives in very interesting ways. Her work plays on the contrast between light and darkness to produce captivating illusions. Moving images of people on the streets, of men and women in different forms and atmospheres all conspire to produce a rich repertoire that taps into the daily struggles of all of us.

There is colour and courage in the collection of this young lady who attended Mt. St. Mary’s college Namagunga, Makerere college school and who cut her artistic teeth at Makerere University’s Margaret Trowell school of Industrial and Fine arts before pursuing her graduate studies in the UK.

The exhibition will also act as a launch pad into  Bwire’s next venture- a new gallery that will promote artists of all kinds. The gallery whose venue has yet to be decided will be in the suburbs of town in a place that many people will easily access.

“Support us”

Bwire hopes that young art entrepreneurs like her could be supported by the government.

“I would really like an Arts fund to be created for young people. I believe it is important to develop the arts, there are so many creatives who just need that little financial boost to start up. We keep talking about having more job creators in this country, but we do no actually encourage them financially to start up,” she said.

Starting a venture like hers has not been a bed of roses.

“Having people take a group of young creatives seriously is not easy. We have now created and continue to create a brand that stands out but it has not always been easy, like any start up business, we have had our low moments.”