Sadly, the Durham Photographic Society’s Annual Exhibition in the Galilee Chapel of Durham Cathedral is behind us, at least until the next one in July 2013.
John Cogan reflects on his experience stewarding the exhibition in an article just posted in “Articles” from the home page of the DPS website. Here is an extract:
“We chose well. There were sufficient images to satisfy nearly everyone who came. Joe’s pale tree in the garden captured some hearts while Mavis’s steam locomotive challenged a few gender stereotypes. “Where did you take these then?” asked a pasty-faced teenage girl. I told her it was Whitby, at the Goth weekend. “I’m a Goff,” she said. “I ain’t been to no Whitby! Why Whitby then?” I tell her but she merely shrugs. Perhaps Dracula isn’t what she thinks of being just a “Goff”. And perhaps she’ll return next year with a little more understanding after having her interest stimulated by our images. If we have achieved anything it has been that: the gentle exercise of expanding the understanding of those who, for a brief while, stood in front of our images and entered into our world.”
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