2025 Annual Exhibition

Hebden Bridge Camera Club’s annual exhibition returned to the Town Hall this year. Nearly 1200 visitors viewed the 48 prints on display and 770 votes were cast. Visitors were asked to vote for their favourite three images in order of preference and every print on display received some votes. There was no set theme and many people commented on how difficult it was to choose, with so many good and varied images. They included local views, scenes from around the world, buildings, still life, people, animals, birds plus more abstract images. All the votes were counted and the results were as follows:

  1. Launch for Hire                      by Graham Barnes
  2. Love is in the air                    by Barbara Lansdell
  3. Street of Vaults                      by David Mosley


The Club would like to thank all who attended for making the exhibition successful and remind anyone who is interested in joining the Club, to please contact us through our website for details of a free trial of membership.

The club’s 2026 calendar of Hebden Bridge images is now on sale in local outlets and copies can be purchased here.

2024 Annual Exhibition

Hebden Bridge Camera Club’s annual exhibition returned to the Town Hall this year. Over 1200 visitors viewed the 57 prints on display and 937 votes were cast. Visitors were asked to vote for their favourite three images in order of preference and every print on display received some votes. There was no set theme and many people commented on how difficult it was to choose, with so many good and varied images. They included local views, scenes from around the world, buildings, still life, people, animals, birds plus more abstract images. All the votes were counted and the results were as follows:

1st: Maunsell Fort at Redsand by Graham Barnes

2nd: Fiery Autumn Colours by Steph Penny

3rd: Winter Morning by Barbara Lansdell

The Club would like to thank all who attended for making the exhibition successful and remind anyone who is interested in joining the Club, to please contact us for details of a free trial of membership.

Annual Exhibition 2023 Winners

We’re happy to announce the result of the public vote from this year’s successful exhibition at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall.

🥇 First place – Spooky Woods by Jennifer Hartshorn

🥈Second place – Head On by Max Malisan

🥉Third place – Evening Colours by Heather Stanton

Thank you to all the club members who exhibited their images and to all the members of the public who took the time to look around and pick their favourites – we know it’s not an easy task!

We look forward to seeing you all again in 2024.

Annual Exhibition 2022 Winners Announced

Hebden Bridge Camera Club’s annual exhibition was held at the Town Hall again this year.  

Deputy Mayor Cllr Bernice Hayes and her consort James Hayes Deputy opened the exhibition, and over 1000 visitors viewed the 47 prints on display. 

Visitors were asked to vote for their favourite three images in order of preference and every print received some votes.  

There was no set theme and many people commented on how difficult it was to choose, with so many good and varied images.

Prints included local views, scenes from around the world, buildings, still-life, people, animals, birds, plus more abstract images. 

After all the votes were counted, the results were as follows:

1st    Chris Scarborough’s    ‘Eaves Wood’
2nd    Ian Parker’s     ‘Beach Reflections’
3rd    Bill Pilkington’s     ‘What Ewe Looking at?’

The club’s 2023 calendar of Hebden Bridge images is now on sale in local outlets and copies can also be purchased by contacting the club via the website.  

The club would like to thank all who attended for helping make the exhibition successful and remind anyone who is interested in joining that the club to see the website for details.

Our 2022 Annual Exhibition is Open!

L-R; Hebden Royd Deputy Mayor Cllr Jane Hoyle, HBCC President Jennifer Hartshorn, Mayor’s consort Kevin Hoyle

On Saturday 27th August the Hebden Royd deputy mayor kindly opened our annual exhibition at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall. The exhibition is free to the public and runs from Saturday the 27th through to the 3rd of September. Closed Sunday 28th. The town hall is open from 10am to 4pm each day and we will have members of the club on hand to answer any questions you might have. We always invite the public to vote for their favourite three images, the results of which will be published here a short time after the close of the exhibition.

2023 Hebden Bridge Calendar Available

The exhibition also marks your first opportunity to purchase a copy of the ever popular Hebden Bridge calendar that the club has been producing since 2014. Proceeds from the calendar help fund our activities so we’re very grateful for your patronage. We’re expecting to sell out early this year as we’ve been forced to reduce our print run due to significantly increased costs from high inflation, so get yours early to avoid disappointment!

Martin Parr to give camera club talk

Martin Parr Collection. CUBA. Havana. Autoportrait. 2000

We’re delighted to announce that Martin Parr, one of the UK’s leading documentary photographers, will be giving a talk to the club on October 19th. Some of you may know of his work in and around Hebden Bridge in the 1970s, where he was briefly a member of the club while he completed his Non-Conformists project. Martin will be giving his to talk to us via Zoom and as such we’re pleased to invite members of the public to join us for this exciting presentation from the comfort of their own homes. Tickets are available via EventBrite. Proceeds will be split between the camera club and the Martin Parr Foundation.

2021 Exhibition Winners

We would like to thank all the members of the public who came to view our annual exhibition at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall this year. It was wonderful to be able to hold an in-person exhibition again for the first time since 2019.

Hebden Royd mayor Cllr Rob Freeth with our club president, Judith Baron at the opening of the exhibition.

We’ve counted up the hundreds of vote you cast and are delighed to announce the winners this year are:

1st Place: Barbara Lansdell with “Wren”

2nd Place: Judith Baron with “What About Me?”

3rd Place: Bill Pilkington with “In the Cold Midwinter”

Annual Exhibition Open!

We’re delighted to announce our first on-line only annual exhibition is now open to the public. We hope we’ll be able to return to the Hebden Bridge Town Hall next year, but for now we’re making the most of the current situation by expanding the number of photographs on show from members, as there are no physical space constraints. To make things easier to browse we’ve split the exhibition into themed categories; Open, Nature, Portrait, Travel, Monochrome, ‘Scapes and Local.

Every year we invite the public to vote for their favourite three images – due to the change in format this year we’ve changed that to allowing you to vote for your favourite image in each category giving you 7 votes in total if you wish to use them all. Voting will remain open until the end of September and results will be published in October.

Visit the exhibition.

As our exhibition is usually your first chance to grab a copy of our popular Hebden Bridge calendar, we’ve decided to setup an online shop this year if you want to get your order in early. The calendar will also be available in all the usual venues around town. As a word of warning, we’ve reduced the number we are printing this year due to the uncertainties caused by Coronavirus, so they will be in more limited supply than usual. If you’re keen to get one, don’t wait!

2020 Online Exhibition

Due to the pandemic limiting our ability to host our usual annual exhibition at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall, this year we are going to be presenting member’s work online. The online exhibition will be launched on the 29th of August.

Coronavirus Notice

As we let you know at last week’s meeting, we have been closely monitoring the rapidly evolving COVID-19 virus situation and how it might impact on our programme.

In the past week several members have, understandably, expressed reservations about attending meetings on Wednesday evenings. With social distancing now recommended by the government and with some of our members being in the higher risk category, we have taken the decision that the responsible action is to cancel all meetings up to the end of April when we begin the summer break. 

This is immediate and there will not be a meeting this Wednesday 18th March. Hopefully when the Club programme begins in September things will be back to normal and we can once again get together on a weekly basis. 

In the interim, the committee are thinking of ways to hold part of the bi-monthly competitions remotely, i.e. judging PDI’s from home and maybe recording comments that can be uploaded to the web. Prints present a different challenge, but possibly we can look at moving them to September and increase the number of entries per member. The Summers walks are under review but it’s unlikely these will go ahead. 

Nobody is more disappointed than we are at having to make this tough decision, but we hope you understand and agree that it’s the best course of action in the exceptional circumstances the World finds itself in at present.

Kind regards,

Judith Baron, President.

Bill Pilkington, Programme Secretary / Vice President