SIXTEEN at Ellesmere Port Library
19 September - 27 September 2019
Opening event Thursday 19 September, 1.30pm – 3.30pm
SIXTEEN is a national touring exhibition that asks ‘what’s it like to be sixteen years old now’? Craig Easton invited fellow photographers to join him and collaborate with more than one hundred and seventy young people from across the UK to explore their hopes, fears and aspirations.
We are delighted to present this series of portraits selected from the wider SIXTEEN portfolio in an exhibition curated by the Year 10 students from Whitby High School and made in partnership with Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. The work included is from David Copeland, Craig Easton, Jillian Edelstein, Stuart Freedman, Kate Peters, Michelle Sank, and Abbie Trayler-Smith.
Young people from Whitby High School teamed up over a number of months to choose the images with the sixteen-year-olds’ accompanying stories, which they felt related most closely to their own lives. They also produced a booklet with more information about each of the photographers’ work. This is now on the library’s shelves for the public to read.
Opening event Thursday 19 September, 1.30pm – 3.30pm
SIXTEEN is a national touring exhibition that asks ‘what’s it like to be sixteen years old now’? Craig Easton invited fellow photographers to join him and collaborate with more than one hundred and seventy young people from across the UK to explore their hopes, fears and aspirations.
We are delighted to present this series of portraits selected from the wider SIXTEEN portfolio in an exhibition curated by the Year 10 students from Whitby High School and made in partnership with Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. The work included is from David Copeland, Craig Easton, Jillian Edelstein, Stuart Freedman, Kate Peters, Michelle Sank, and Abbie Trayler-Smith.
Young people from Whitby High School teamed up over a number of months to choose the images with the sixteen-year-olds’ accompanying stories, which they felt related most closely to their own lives. They also produced a booklet with more information about each of the photographers’ work. This is now on the library’s shelves for the public to read.