Visit Scunthorpe People's Gallery
07 August 2012 by Scunny Independent News
Last night the Baths Hall hosted the successful launch of the Visit Scunthorpe Community Gallery.
Consisting of 32 photographs taken in and around North Lincolnshire the gallery tells the story of Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire both past and present.
Taken by 19 different contributors, using a range of cameras from mobile phones, to the latest professional SLRs, the gallery shows North Lincolnshire in all its fabulous diversity.
Curated by Visit Scunthorpe's founders, from submissions made by members in April and May of this year, the gallery aims not only to capture the very essence of community spirit in the town, but to also tell the story of how the town and the region have moved from being an agricultural, rural economy in the 1850's to being the steel giant it is today, paying homage to its workers, skills and engineering prowess along the way.
We are so very proud of the fantastic photos submitted by the community, and feel that this really illustrates just how much the people of North Lincolnshire care about their region and the town of Scunthorpe.
The gallery will be open daily from 10:30 to 4pm Monday to Friday until October, at which point it will be replaced by a gallery by Scunthorpe Telegraph's professional photographer Carl Gac.
Any one who is resident in North Lincolnshire can contribute to next year's Visit Scunthorpe gallery, and to make it more inclusive, we're starting collecting photo's now! Each month for the next 10 months we will be publishing a "Photo theme" on our facebook group. We want members of the public to submit us photographs based around this theme, and each month we'll select 3 photos for inclusion in the principal gallery, along with several others for our smaller "community collages" which feature in this year's collection.
We believe that events such as this should be inclusive, and encourage any one who shares and interest or love for the town to contribute whether its be with a professional camera or mobile phone.
This month's theme will run untill the first week in September and is "Recreation". The only rule is the photograph must be taken in North Lincolnshire.
This year's photo contributions are from:
Alison walker smith
Maria Rhoades
Jane Oxby
Keith Dawson
Bill Rhoades
Brian Hall
Paul Parker
Maria Borrill
Becky Drewery
Chris Skinner
Amanda Dawson
Sue Kilmore
Kevin Kaye
Paul & Ruth Holt
Paul Evarret
Pete Hewes
Our face book group is : https://www.facebook.com/groups/194989023874592/ Please join it to submit photos.
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