Hackney's best snappers wanted to help make history

Become a part of Hackney’s history and capture the spirit of Hackney’s changing landscape in a photograph.

Hackney is a borough of huge change and redevelopment thanks to the London 2012 Olympics and there are plenty of budding photogrophers wondering around with their SLR's at the weekend.

This summer, Hackney Museum has joined forces with will renowned photographer Stephen Gill, to select images sent in by Londoners for the "Capture Hackney" exhibition - to be held at the museum from Thursday 17 October 2010.

Afterwards, pictures selected will be placed into Hackney Council’s archives as a lasting legacy for future generations.

 

Hackney Museum is in search of photos that have real personality, a genuine sense of the Hackney zeitgeist and a clear way of talking to the viewer, so that future generations feel they are leaping right back into 2010 and the rest of us can remember our lives and times.  

 

Whether you want to say it with people, buildings, landscapes or something altogether more quirky, we’re looking for pictures that will help us build a "moment in time" as Hackney moves towards 2012 and the event that will have the world watching.

 

Cllr Jonathan McShane, Cabinet member for Community Services said: "Hackney is currently undergoing huge change and we are calling on London's photographers to help us capture this amazing period to provide a visual legacy for future generations."

 

Mapping the Change will capture the changes brought to the lives of Hackney people by the 2012 Games through photography, digital media, writing and work with oral histories.

All the art work produced from 2008 until 2012, as part of Mapping the Change, will be kept in Hackney for posterity.

 

From now until Friday 17 September, Hackney Museum, working with Shoot Experience, is looking for Londoners, who are over 16-years-old, to submit inspiring photographs that frame the way the borough is transforming as Hackney moves into a new era.

 

It’s free to enter images for Capture Hackney – in pictures. To find out the rules and entry conditions go to: www.shootexperience.com/capturehackney

 

The closing date is: 10pm Friday 17 September 2010.

 

Photographers whose work has been chosen will find out on the opening night of the Hackney Museum exhibition on Thursday 7 October. Prizes for the best and most creative pictures, include cameras and photographic equipment.