Meeting opens at 7.00pm and ends at 9.00pm
Free entry to members, visitors £5 to cover costs.
Join us for an evening with Gateshead based photographer, Damien Wootten.
Damien is a British documentary and art photographer. Much of his work focuses on the North of England. It is a place that has a rich photographic history and a strong contemporary presence. Damien's work draws from that history, and the wider photographic tradition of recording the land and our place within it. His work, in part, looks at how history and politics are embedded in both our communities and landscape.
Damien is a British documentary and art photographer. Much of his work focuses on the North of England. It is a place that has a rich photographic history and a strong contemporary presence. Damien's work draws from that history, and the wider photographic tradition of recording the land and our place within it. His work, in part, looks at how history and politics are embedded in both our communities and landscape.
Damien will be talking about his practice in general, but will focus on his latest project The Killing Ditch, maps the topography of Northumberland and Cumbria, bringing a physical, historical and philosophical context to the Roman Wall ditch.
Damien was previously Head of Photography at an FE college on Tyneside. He has worked extensively in the community, working on many research projects, commissions, residencies and collaborations, and lectures in photography at Newcastle University, in the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape.
He is a director of Banyan Arts, which has an emphasis on wellbeing through creativity. He delivers arts based workshops to a range of groups as diverse as stroke survivors, parents and carers of young people with addictions - and refugee and asylum seekers.
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