The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A new photography exhibition which focuses on people in Spalding in the last few months is due to launch.
‘Portrait Promenade’ is a series of portraits created by photographer Steven Hatton of Electric Egg, captured during Transported Art’s Spalding Super Saturdays arts events in recent months.
The portraits will be exhibited at Spalding Gentlemen’s Society from March 20 to June 19.
A spokesman for Transported said: “The portraits give a small glimpse of a community at a given time but together paint a portrait of the town beyond the landscape and bricks and mortar instead shifting the focus onto the individuals who make it special and give it life.
“Using a type of camera originally designed in the late 1940s and combining digital and analogue techniques, the photos capture residents, traders and visitors alike.
“The technology and vintage of the camera required a slower and more formal approach to capturing each portrait, allowing conversation to flow and allowing participants to see an approach to portrait photography which, with the advent of smaller and more flexible digital camera technology, has been largely forgotten.”
Steven said: “They will be exhibited at Spalding Gentlemen’s Society which holds a large collection of glass plates taken in Spalding and the local area.
“These portraits, like the images held in the collection, carry on a long and rich tradition of documenting our local surroundings, ways and traditions through imagery – in this case photography.
The exhibition is free to enter and is open from 11am to 1pm every Wednesday, from 2pm to 4pm on Sunday March 20, April 17, May 15 and Sunday June 19 and from 11am to 4pm for a Celebrating Fens and Civic weekend.
