Niall Benvie: Meet Your Neighbours – Exhibition Program

How typically does a Scotsman dwelling within the south of France go to western New York?

Niall Benvie, an distinctive environmental photographer and co-founder of the Meet Your Neighbours challenge, shall be becoming a member of us by way of Zoom on Saturday, January 31, at 12 pm (a 40-minute presentation adopted by 10 minutes for questions/feedback). Seating and a viewing display shall be arrange within the Green Gallery, and the general public might converse with Benvie in actual time in the course of the presentation. Viewers may have interaction with the Zoom at dwelling. Light refreshments shall be accessible within the RTPI foyer.

Benvie’s program will deal with his Environmental Impact Award-winning challenge now on show at RTPI, Meet Your Neighbours: how the challenge received its begin, and an astonishing survey of photos from the challenge that expands on the images displayed within the museum. Meet Your Neighbours makes use of portraiture pictures supposed to take the viewer’s breath away. Each topic is photographed within the discipline, towards a white background introduced onto the scene. This method not solely reveals the topic in nice element, however reveals their translucent qualities too. Each topic turns into a celeb, a person.

Founded in 2009, Meet Your Neighbours is a worldwide photographic initiative created by Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt. The challenge reconnects folks with the wildlife on their very own doorsteps. These creatures and crops are important: they characterize the primary, and for some, the one contact with wild nature we’ve got. Yet too typically they’re missed, undervalued. This is conservation pictures on the grass-roots degree, asking folks to care about the place they dwell and exhibiting them how extraordinary it’s in a novel approach.

Niall Benvie grew up in japanese Scotland, the place his dad and mom have been berry farmers. His past love has all the time been the pure world – and picture making. Benvie has been on the middle of a number of of the biggest outside pictures initiatives of the final 15 years, together with Wild Wonders of Europe, Meet Your Neighbours, and 2020VISION. He was a Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and has printed seven books and a whole bunch of articles. He now lives within the Morvan in central France along with his spouse Charlotte, with whom he runs Food and Photography Retreats Ltd and claims hoopoes and turtle doves, nightingales and golden oriole as his neighbors.