You can view more of Rory’s work here: www.lightpriority.net
Jim Strom has kindly agreed to let us share the video slideshow he made showing last year’s bi-monthly and annual competition winners on the website. If you came to our summer exhibition you may have spotted this playing on the TV we had, if not here’s your chance to see it. Sit back and enjoy!
Hebden Royd mayor Tony Hodgins opens the exhibition with club president Judith Baron.
We’d like to thank all the members of the public who helped make our 2016 exhibition a great success this summer. Our informal tallies show a record number of visitors came to view the exhibition, totalling nearly 1,600 people. Over 1,140 people also cast their votes for their top three images, the results of which are as follows:
1st place: Fusion of Colour by Helka Czuhra
Scored 319 points (53 1st choices, 49 2nd choices and 62 3rd choices)
2nd place: Nuthatch by Jim Strom
Scored 309 points (62 1st choices, 44 2nd choices, 35 3rd choices)
3rd place: Scout Rock Ice Falls by Steph Penny
Scored 296 points (54 1st choices, 47 2nd choices, 40 3rd choices)
We weight a 1st choice as being worth 3 points, a 2nd choice 2 points and a 3rd choice 1 point.
Prints were judged by Rory Prior, projected images were judged by Ian Parker.
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Our annual exhibition will be running again this year from the 27th of August to the 4th of September at the Hebden Bridge Town Hall. The exhibition is free and open from 10am to 4pm daily. Members from the club will be on-hand to answer your questions and we’ll invite you to vote for your favourite images. To see the winners the public has picked in previous years click here.
This June we were lucky enough to get a behind the scenes tour of the archives at the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford. Curator of Photography, Colin Harding showed us around, explaining the museum’s collections and how it preserves them for future generations to enjoy. Colin explained that while only a tiny fraction of the collection is ever on display, the public can request to see specific items for research purposes (which can be a fairly broadly interpreted term). Even more of the museum’s collection is housed off site at various locations around the country, which gives an idea of its immense scale.
There has been controversy recently with the news that a large part of the collection is moving from the NMM to the V&A in London and with it the downscaling of photography as part of the museum’s remit. As such, this opportunity to explore the collection while it’s still all in one place has been particularly significant. Our thanks go to Colin and the Museum for giving our members this opportunity.
Prints were judged by Jennifer Hartshorn, projected images were judged by Chris Scarborough.
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Hebden Bridge Camera Club 