Scunthorpe: Through Our Eyes

'Feeding Pigeons is like sprinkling kindness into the urban jungle' photograph by Anna Kowalska

Photograph of Market Hill flats by Michael Burkitt

4 May to 22 June 2024

20-21 Visual Arts Centre has invited photographers of all levels to be part of a new Open Call photography exhibition: ‘Scunthorpe: Through Our Eyes’ – with the aim of including everyone, from professional photographers, right through to people who have never taken a photograph before in their life!

Scunthorpe and its surrounding areas have a wealth of interesting locations to inspire amateur and professional photographers alike – from the gritty urban and industrial areas of the town, through to the surrounding countryside, industry and agriculture. We wanted an exhibition that represents what it’s like to live in Scunthorpe today – as seen through the eyes of people that live here.

The resulting exhibition features the work of over 90 photographers from the local area, with a huge range of styles and approaches, of locations across the town and beyond.

What do you find beautiful, or ugly, about your surroundings? What would you think of as ‘typically Scunthorpe?’ What would be a ‘hidden gem’ that no-one would expect to see in this area? Come along to 20-21 and see what the Scunthorpe Through Our Eyes photographers think?

Photographers:

Sarah Felis, Charlotte Tahira Durrant, Sarah Kirk , Bruce Michael Queenan, Nathan Ward, Anna Kowalska, Steven Ridgley, Alan Keen, Sarah Drury, Emilia Jupiter-Haze, Vic Allen, Chloe Myhill, Tracy Marsden, Jules May, Mia Jay Hewson, Stacey Camp, Maria Rhoades, Bill Rhoades, Daisy Smith, Jack Fletcher Lorna Fillingham, Eileen Curits, Steve Parrish, Lily-Mae, Abi Davis, Bob Riach, Carrie Kelsey-Donaldson, Kayleigh Hollingsworth, Brandon Yu, Gregory Culley, Michael Dixon, Jen Holtridge, Amy B Garratt, Lauren Norton, Adrees Khan, David Ford, Joseph Singleton, Robin Stones, Walter Nelson-Aylott, Georgina Corney, Eleanor Thompson, Dave Thompson, Calvin Taylor Lee, Nick J Morfitt, Tina Veall, Peter Wright, Paul Schofield, Brian Hall, Brian Woolhouse, Julia Pollock, Robert Spanna Hannah, Sean Andrews, Lisa Vickers, Michael Hartlebury, Nigel Pennington, Ben Ali, Ruth Holt, Ailsa Brasier, Dominic Mason, Michael Burkitt, Ang Creasey, Liz Clarke Wright, Hala McKee, Rebekah Glenwright-Cook, David Durant, John Marris, Bill Anderson, Gary MacSweeney Mark Woods, Rob Waddingham, Melissa Windley, Craig Charles, Sammy De Freitas, Julie Oxenforth, Abby Symonds, Amy Gower, Jane Wigley, Tia Fudge, Jessica Clark, Shirley Tierney, Louise Gower, Lewis Whittingham, Lindsay Evette Croft, Ann Gower, Ashleigh Vince, Tim Justice, Lee Blyth, Sarah Jane Pearce, Bailey Symonds, Anna Holt, Dan Leahy, Ian Lee