Exhibition Report

Hi Everyone

As the previous post was put up, to advertise and advise of the exhibition, I though I would write a short report on the event. Some of you may want to organize this sort of thing yourselves.

As back ground information may be of interest, I am giving some here.

The exhibition venue was booked last November (2007) and it's use was offered free to the three of us, on the basis that there would be images from the local area.

The three of us as friends, decided to get together for this show have varying interests.

Keith Tranah had been a miner for 25 years and had obtained a permit to photograph down the 'Pit' and developed into an expert in paint by light photography, has amassed hundreds of stunning images on film and hand printed them of working life of a miner up to 1999, when finally all of the mines in the area we live had closed. He has since been shooting images various subjects, landscape's, creative,urban, details etc. In mono and colour.

James Mason has is studying and doing an HNC in photography and has started up a portrait studio in a small way to finance his studies, he works in all mediums and specializes in portrait, figure studies and glamour.

I have been photographing various subjects as you can see in my photo steam for over 50 years, I have recently been shooting glamour, for the first time in my life, having avoided shooting people for years.

The venue for the exhibition allowed us to exhibit in the region of 100 prints , set up a small portrait studio and exhibit some camera's and mining equipment.

We set up on Friday morning and had a couple of local newspapers visit for pictures to supplement the press releases we had given them.

The show ran from Noon on Friday to Sunday evening, over 1260 visitors passed through the exhibition, including 40 invited guests we had there on Friday evening, who comprised of family, friends, fellow photographers, local councilor, studio owner, models, etc . Everyone said they enjoy the event and praised the mining images in particular.

This exhibition has been a great success for the venue, 1260 visitor in two and half days, compared with an average of 4000 a month! We have been invited to do more exhibitions because of this!

This show took a lot of work to organize and set up. Meeting visitors and seeing your work exhibited is a great experience and well worth the work to do.

I hope you find this blog of interest.

Some pic's will follow

Geoff