My K-Town People project began in May 2025, part of the Bradford City of Culture 2025 Our Patch programme. The idea was to create a photographic record of Keighley’s extraordinary ordinary people.
Thanks to everyone who visited the exhibition – my first ever despite the fact I’ve been a professional photographer for more than 42 years! Many of the subjects of my project came to see pictures of themselves and other K-Town People.
If you didn’t get down to see the photos and pick up your free copy of the newspaper, there’s still chance: the exhibition is open on Tuesday and Wednesday this week from noon to 4pm, and again on Wednesday evening from 5pm to 7pm. Entry is free and it will be open again next Saturday, 28 March, from 10am to 4pm.
I was really pleased with how the exhibition and newspaper look. Huge thanks to my producer Gemma Hobbs, without whom this project wouldn’t have happened. Also to Lee Goater, the designer of the newspaper; Aimee Grundell who did the graphic work on the exhibition and made the a-boards; and to James Drake who did a lot of the donkey work putting the exhibition together.
Demonstrating just what a team job it is to put together something like this launch, my thanks also go to Dan Mallaghan and Cat Murray who played the part of paper vendors; Adriana Szczerepa , Lauren Kelly and Louie Haslam-Chance who ran the Polaroid and zine-making workshop in the Airedale Shopping Centre; Hannah Butterfield and Shane Durrant, along with the Keighley Chorus, for their performance in the centre; to Garry Cook, the event photographer and to volunteers Dan Palmer, Anna Olczyk, Lorna Hampton-Bowes and Ellie Pedley.
My final thanks go to the wonderful people of Keighley, who happily went in front of my camera, and without whom this project wouldn’t have been possible.
And yes, I am a trustee of Keighley Creative, but handed over all the arrangements to Gemma to distance myself from the charity on whose board I sit.
