Student exhibits Bath street life on city hoarding
A student from the University of Bath is bringing an exhibition of photos back to the streets where he captured them, on hoardings surrounding Bath’s Gainsborough Building opposite the Thermae Bath Spa, from today (Thursday 1 October).
(Media-Newswire.com) - A student from the University of Bath is bringing an exhibition of photos back to the streets where he captured them, on hoardings surrounding Bath’s Gainsborough Building opposite the Thermae Bath Spa, from today ( Thursday 1 October ).
Tim Holsgrove, a 26 year-old postgraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is exhibiting ten large-scale prints that capture moments, emotions and people in Bath.
Tim has taken photos every day for the past 15 months and this exhibition features some of his best images of life on Bath’s streets.
Tim said: “I decided to try and get a good photo every day, the idea being that some days it would be easy and some days hard, but it would all improve my ability and help me to see things in a novel way.”
“I’ve become really passionate about it, to the point where I don’t like to leave the house without my camera.”
Tim prefers photographing people to buildings and his inspiration for the street exhibition came from Parisian photographer JR, famed for exhibiting his art on public spaces around the world.
Tim spotted the hoardings around the Gainsborough building, on Beau Street and Hot Street, and has been given the go-ahead and funding by owners Bath Hotels & Spa Ltd to run the Bath Streetlife exhibition during the next six months, while the building is renovated to become the Thermal Spa Hotel.
The exhibition images can be viewed on Tim’s website, plus a map of the location. The site also features series of images which emerged as themes from his daily photo sessions.
Tim was an undergraduate at Bath and is now completing a PhD in spine biomechanics. Photography has overtaken his previous passion of ultra marathon running which saw him win Britain’s longest non-stop foot race in 2007 from Birmingham to London. He raced 145 miles in 29 hours and 39 minutes.
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