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About
ClickIt!
In
2000 Charnwood Borough Council commissioned Charnwood Arts to
produce a photographic time capsule of the Charnwood area.
Our
main aim was to document the area in the millennium year so that
future generations would have a visual record to gaze upon and
consider.
Charnwood
Borough Council was also very keen to know the views of local
people about the areas in which they lived and worked. Three themes
were set to focus these opinions:
- Things
we like about the Charnwood area
- Things
we do not like about the area
- How
we live our lives
Posters
and an advertising campaign were launched and local people were
asked to send in photographs on these themes. We would like to
thank all those people who took the time to help us and in doing
so immortalise their pictures.
Photography
workers Faye Chamberlain and Stuart Hollis set up several photographic
workshops working with a range of groups and individuals. As they
toured the local villages many people were consulted about the
project and 'commissioned' photographs of the things they wanted
to see enter the archive. Nearly 1,500 photographs were used to
create an exhibition, a CD-ROM and a Web site. The exhibition
was first shown at Charnwood Museum in February 2001 and continued
to tour around the borough throughout the year.
Charnwood
Arts decided to take the ClickIt! project a stage further by creating
a facility for anyone living or working in Charnwood to add their
own photographs of the places they live and work in. The aim of
this was create an ongoing record of the borough and provide a
basis for future community photography and other community arts
projects.
We
hope you will contribute! For more detailed information on how
to please read the How to Contribute
page.
Acknowledgments
Thanks
to:
Richard
King, Borough Arts Officer
Kevin Ryan, Charnwood Arts Director
Faye Chamberlain, Photographer
Stuart Hollis, Photographer
Sean Clark, Web Site and CD-ROM Design
Plus
all those who sent in work, featured in the photographs and helped
with the project.
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