Cameras in the Community is a contemporary photographic exhibition curated with FOTONOW, Plymouth based photography collective. It features Camper Obscura, Daniel Meadows, Launderette Residencies and the South West Graduate Photography Prize; all of which explore the documentation of communities through contemporary photography.

Camper Obscura is a fantastic mobile camera that FOTONOW has used with residents and community groups throughout Devonport to develop an archive of interviews and images, which is to be held at the new Devonport Library in St Aubyn’s Chapel. The Camper Obscura project is inspired by the work of Daniel Meadows who, during the 1970s, toured the UK in a converted double decker bus making portraits of the people he met on the journey. This nationally significant work by Daniel Meadows will be presented alongside work from Camper Obscura as part of the exhibition.

Tim Mills (FOTONOW) and Jamie Webb are interested in communal public spaces and the people who use them. Their photographs were taken as part of a series of residencies in launderettes In Plymouth, and are a candid portrait of the engagement and social aspects of these locations.

Finally, as part of the South West Graduate Photography Prize (as recently exhibited at the Vyner Street Gallery in London), we are proud to present the work of local photography graduates Kirsty Gash, Sarah Jackson, Celine Smith, Kirsty Thomas, Teo Ormond-Skeaping and Amelia Stewart.

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Images: Copyright FOTONOW 2010 (top) Teo Ormond-Skeaping, In the Fulcrum of our Dreams, (middle) Camper Obscura, (bottom) Daniel Meadows archive.