Crossings: A Giant Photo Adventure For Everyone!
In March 2022, together with The Walkers Are Welcome Hebden Royd Group we launched our CROSSINGS project - a giant outdoor photo adventure which was open to the public, and leads to a touring exhibition in June.
Everyone was invited to take part; young and old, those with cameras and those with smart phones, photography novices and professionals alike. Participants were asked to simply go for a walk to ‘capture’ photographic images of the crossings and land marks around Calderdale in both the countryside and urban areas. The aim is to create a huge repository of local crossings, and share these images with the public through an exhibition, featuring prints, mapping and a projected slide show of all submitted photographs.
Stiles, gates and zebra crossings, tunnels and bridges, gaps in the wall and stepping stones – our landscape is filled with all manner of ways to cross a field, a river, a railway track, a road giving access to public paths and places we wouldn’t otherwise be able to explore. Crossings are a unique feature in the landscape and footpath network in the locality. They allow for the possibility for one to continue with their journey but also to contemplate with where they have been and where they are going to next.
To inspire and enable as many people as possible to take part, we offered free guided walks and creative workshops during March and April. Crossing Town was an accessible 90-minute guided photo walk tailored to meet the needs of wheelchair users, families with pushchairs and individuals with limited physical mobility. The Road Not Taken was a photo walk and creative writing workshop for everyone aged 16+, and SNAP! was aimed at 4-8 year olds who took part in a crossings guided photowalk and foraging workshop leading to the production of cyanotype images.
Those who got involved in these walks and workshops displayed their photos, artwork and poems at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival’s LAND MARKS exhibition at Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags over the weekend 22-24 April.
Hundreds of Crossings photo submissions have been received, and they will be taking centre stage in the June exhibition. A special Crossings trail will also be developed, influenced by the locations of some of the most exciting and beautiful Crossings photo submissions, celebrating the unique features of our local landscape.
Our Crossings exhibition will be touring in June as follows:
Saturday 11 June / Hebden Bridge Town Hall / 11:00 - 16:00
Saturday 18 June / St John’s Church Cragg Vale / 11:00 - 16:00
Saturday 25 June / Mytholmroyd Community Centre / 11:00 - 16:00
Crossings is a collaboration with ‘The Walkers Are Welcome Hebden Royd Group’ for the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival’s Land Marks project, which links Calderdale community groups with local artists to creatively explore the local and global environment. The project is supported by Hebden Royd Town Council, Calderdale Council, Arts Council England and Art Fund.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their photographs.
Please make a note of the dates above, and pop along to see your work at the exhibition venue most convenient for you.
Everyone was invited to take part; young and old, those with cameras and those with smart phones, photography novices and professionals alike. Participants were asked to simply go for a walk to ‘capture’ photographic images of the crossings and land marks around Calderdale in both the countryside and urban areas. The aim is to create a huge repository of local crossings, and share these images with the public through an exhibition, featuring prints, mapping and a projected slide show of all submitted photographs.
Stiles, gates and zebra crossings, tunnels and bridges, gaps in the wall and stepping stones – our landscape is filled with all manner of ways to cross a field, a river, a railway track, a road giving access to public paths and places we wouldn’t otherwise be able to explore. Crossings are a unique feature in the landscape and footpath network in the locality. They allow for the possibility for one to continue with their journey but also to contemplate with where they have been and where they are going to next.
To inspire and enable as many people as possible to take part, we offered free guided walks and creative workshops during March and April. Crossing Town was an accessible 90-minute guided photo walk tailored to meet the needs of wheelchair users, families with pushchairs and individuals with limited physical mobility. The Road Not Taken was a photo walk and creative writing workshop for everyone aged 16+, and SNAP! was aimed at 4-8 year olds who took part in a crossings guided photowalk and foraging workshop leading to the production of cyanotype images.
Those who got involved in these walks and workshops displayed their photos, artwork and poems at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival’s LAND MARKS exhibition at Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags over the weekend 22-24 April.
Hundreds of Crossings photo submissions have been received, and they will be taking centre stage in the June exhibition. A special Crossings trail will also be developed, influenced by the locations of some of the most exciting and beautiful Crossings photo submissions, celebrating the unique features of our local landscape.
Our Crossings exhibition will be touring in June as follows:
Saturday 11 June / Hebden Bridge Town Hall / 11:00 - 16:00
Saturday 18 June / St John’s Church Cragg Vale / 11:00 - 16:00
Saturday 25 June / Mytholmroyd Community Centre / 11:00 - 16:00
Crossings is a collaboration with ‘The Walkers Are Welcome Hebden Royd Group’ for the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival’s Land Marks project, which links Calderdale community groups with local artists to creatively explore the local and global environment. The project is supported by Hebden Royd Town Council, Calderdale Council, Arts Council England and Art Fund.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their photographs.
Please make a note of the dates above, and pop along to see your work at the exhibition venue most convenient for you.
If you have any questions or want to know more please email contactus@hebdenbridgearts.co.uk
