From Moor to Sea… Photo by Croft House B&B Lynton
27 MAY – 1 SEPTEMBER, 2017:
Dunster Visitor Centre
Dunster Steep, TA24 6SE
Open Mon-Sun 10 am – 5 pm
Opening night: 26 May 5-7 pm, fund-raising event for the Exmoor Pony Centre and the Exmoor Pony Project – open for all
1 SEPTEMBER – 31 OCTOBER, 2017:
Lynmouth National Park Centre
The Esplanade, Lynmouth, EX35 6EQ
13 NOVEMBER – 24 DECEMBER, 2017:
Toucan
3 The Parade, Minehead, TA24 5NL
THE EXHIBITION:
The initial idea behind the Running Wild exhibition was a desire to create pictures of the wild Exmoor ponies that would challenge the traditional imagery seen of these iconic animals. The curator, photographer Nina Dodd brought together nine Exmoor-based photographers and asked them to create images of the ponies over a period of six months in 2016-17. The result is an engaging collection of images, presented in a multiple of genres and post-processing styles. A show of taking on a traditional topic and running wild with it.
OPENING NIGHT:
Opening night on the 26th of May 5-7 pm at Dunster Visitor Centre is also a fund-raising event for the Exmoor Pony Centre and the Exmoor Pony Project and is open for all.
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Geoff Baylis
Photographer, Picture framer
Alex Dodd
Creative Media student
Nina Dodd
Photographer
Gaynor Gough
Photographer
www.photographybygmg.weebly.com
Laura Grant
Artist, Photographer
Paula Kirby
Photographer
Jack Mccausland
Visual Media student
Stuart Warstat
Photographer
www.stuartwarstatphotography.co.uk
Dawn Westcott
Photo by Paula Kirby
Here are some more photos shared by our fans and followers on Twitter and Facebook during January. Enjoy!
Photo by Janet Voaden
Here are some of the images shared with us last week. To see them full size, please click on an image.
Free roaming Exmoor mare. Photo by Liz Mitchell.
Talk on ‘Exmoor Ponies & Their Future’ – with a book signing for newly published ‘Wild Pony Whispering’ by Dawn Westcott
Date: Thursday, 8 October 2015, 7pm
Venue: Exmoor National Park’s Lynmouth Pavilion
Free entry, booking advised.
Congratulations to the winners of our 2015 Photo Competition!
We had well over 1000 entries between January and August 2015. Each month, the public chose their favourite images on Facebook, and the top ten made it through to the final. In September, we asked our judges to pick their top 20 photos. Once again, we counted ‘likes’. The top 13 photos are now on our calendar which is ready to be ordered.
A huge thank you to Peter French who masterminded the photo competition and designed the calendar. He will also send out the calendars once we’ve got them back from the printers.
I would also like to thank our judges: John Turner (CEO, Visit Somerset), Giles Adams (What’s On Somerset), Cllr Andrea Davies (Chairman, Exmoor National Park), Nigel Hester (NT Holnicote Estate), Martin Hesp (Editor-at-large, Western Morning News), Annelise Yard (West Somerset Free Press), Andy Cooper (Group Editor, Archant, Devon Life), Charlotte Skidmore (Editor, Somerset Life).
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