Brighton-based photographer Lyn Weddle has worked with participants in Pallant House Gallery's Community Programme to produce a series of portraits exploring their motivations, experiences and unique journeys. The portraits are accompanied by assemblages of images taken and selected by the participants and other memorabilia illustrating aspects of their lives and their experience of Pallant House Gallery.
Over the past eight years Pallant House Gallery has developed a pioneering and well-respected Community Programme. Acknowledging that people do not fit into boxes, the Gallery has aimed to provide a distinct programme that is inclusive to a diverse range of people's needs. The Gallery has chosen to take an individualised approach in developing long-term relationships with people from its local community. Brighton-based photographer Lynn Weddle, was commissioned to produce a series of photographs to capture, celebrate and share some of the stories of the people who take part in the Community Programme.
Lynn Weddle's practice is concerned with human relations and exploring ways in which people can be supported to represent themselves through photographic portraits. Her work is concerned with social meaning, asking the viewer to witness an experience that has come from the collaboration between a photographer and a sitter.
In Creative Communities Lynn Weddle has worked with the participants to produce a series of portraits that explore the motivations, experiences and journeys that make each person's engagement with Pallant House Gallery a unique experience. The portraits are accompanied by photographs of assemblages that consist of images taken and selected by the participants and other memorabilia that illustrate aspects of their lives as well as their experiences of Pallant House Gallery. As well as being artworks in their own right, these assemblages provide an interesting framework for interpreting the portraits.
Lynn Weddle has been a freelance photographic artist and artist educator since 2003.