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A local teacher with a taste for photography is presenting a collection of "bright and uplifting" images captured around the island during lockdown as a way to relax.
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Pictured: Miss Hotton turned to photography during lockdown to relax.
Local history teacher Charlotte Hotton turned to photography during lockdown as a way to relax.
While she has always liked taking pictures, she started capturing more and more local landscapes, mostly coastal due to her love for the ocean, as well as abstract images with her iPhone while out and about.
“I just really love it, I just get a real buzz out of getting a good photo,” she said.
“I just find it’s something which is really relaxing, it’s like my headspace, my ‘me time’, whatever you call it. Some people might go for a run, I just go out and take pictures. They are all quite bright so hopefully they are quite uplifting and happy sort of photos.”
So far, she has produced two collections, the first one features photographs taken only in the west of the island – “I am a westie” Miss Hotton said – while the second documents her adventures in the East, including Archirondel and Mont Orgueil.
After people started showing interest into her work, she was encouraged to share it and Miss Hotton’s photographs are now on display at the Love Bird Studio at the Jersey War Tunnels.
“Lots of people were saying ‘I really like your photos’ but I thought they were just being nice, but then some people said they wanted to buy my photos, it kind of steam rolled from the support from my friends,” she explained.
“It is just something which I have really enjoyed and have been encouraged to share. It never occurred to me it could be a mini little business. It’s just photographs I really enjoying taking and now they are on walls making people happy. It’s been really exciting!”
Miss Hotton said she was “chuffed” to hear that local families had bought some of her photographs to send to relatives who live abroad in the USA or elsewhere.
On Monday between 10:00 and 14:00, she will be at the Love Bird Studio and is inviting “people to come and have a chat about whatever they want”.
The Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive is inviting islanders to join in a free series of six online workshops starting next week.
The programme aims to encourage and support participants in producing bodies of work that are representative of the island’s communities through weekly workshops, tasks and regular feedback.
It is hoped the participants’ work will help build “an archive of contemporary people, places and objects” that future generations will be able to reflect back on and see “our wonderfully varied communities”.
Any islander aged over 18 can take part and prior photographic skills are not required, participants will simply need “a passion for community and sharing your unique stories”.
Pictured: The project aims to help build “an archive of contemporary people, places and objects".
“We are living in a beautifully varied and ever-evolving society,” Shannon O’Donnell, Digitisation and Outreach Coordinator at the Société said.“Our communities and variety of inhabitants is what makes this island a great place to live.
"Through our communities we are able to share our cultures, share our stories, bring a sense of belonging and most importantly be a support for one another. And what better way to encapsulate that feeling than creating a visual documentation within these communities that you are a part of. At the Photographic Archive, we want to expand our contemporary collections focused on the islands social and cultural history.
"We want to engage islanders in documenting our communities and immortalising them through making photographs.”
Spaces for the workshops are limited, contact shannon.odonnell@societe-jersiaise.org and photoarchive@societe-jersiaise.org to join.
ArtHouse Jersey has launched a photo competition linked to its latest project, ‘Roaming Soundtrack’. Running until 28 April, the competition invites islanders to share their own photographic moment while out and about enjoying the playlist at one of the seven featured locations. The photo can either be a selfie, a landscape or even an abstract close up of something encountered on the trail.
The best picture will earn the lucky photographer a bespoke, private performance by a musician at a special location, accompanied by cocktails and nibbles for up to ten people.
Pictured: The winning photographer will receive a bespoke, private performance by a musician at a special location, accompanied by cocktails and nibbles for up to ten people.
Created in collaboration with DJ Rob da Bank, founder of Bestival and Camp Bestival, 'Roaming Soundtrack’ saw seven music acts, including electronic music stars Groove Armada and musician, producer and composer Nitin Sawhney CBE, produce seven pieces of bespoke music in direct response to a variety of locations around the island, all of which have been captured by local photographers.
Listening posts have been set up at each of the locations so that islanders can scan a QR code, bringing the associated music straight into their ears so that they can enjoy the space in a “fresh, auditory way”.
Islanders in Jersey can enter the competition by uploading their shot to social media using the hashtag #roamingsoundtrack and tagging @ArtHouseJersey on FB, Twitter or Instagram.
Video: Singers of all ages, abilities and genres are invited to perform in the Lounge.
Jersey College for Girls is launching a ‘Live Lounge’ and is inviting students of all ages and of all singing abilities to get involved.
In a video, singing teacher Georgi Mottram explained the college’s newest musical venture is open to “singers singing all different types of songs, all different types of genres”.
“We want pop, we want musical theatre, we want classical, we want opera, we want jazz, anything that you like…” she said.
Students are invited to contact Ms Mottram if they want to get involved and their performances will be shared with the school.
“This is your chance to do a sweet little performance in front of a professional camera, a professional little recording studio set up and is going to be streamed to the JCG TV to your friends, to your peers.”
A series of aerial photographs captured by Marc Le Cornu of Bam Perspectives with a drone has been selected to feature on a set of stamps.
From La Hougue Bie to St. Catherine’s breakwater, St. Helier at night and Corbiere Lighthouse the photographs show the island’s “most loved features, as well as some of her best kept secrets” as Jersey Stamps said.
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