This place we share: Picture competitors

Photography competitors launched to showcase folks and locations round North East Lincolnshire

Are you a budding or eager photographer, with a ardour to your native place?

We are inviting folks of all ages, backgrounds and expertise ranges to share images of the tales, moments and locations that matter to them. Whether you might be an skilled photographer, a pupil, a part of a neighborhood group, or somebody who merely enjoys taking images in your telephone, we’d like to see your work.

Selected photographs will likely be displayed in an exhibition at Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre as a part of The National Lottery Heritage Fund Heritage Places funding later this 12 months.

The theme of the exhibition is “People, places and spaces of North East Lincolnshire”, and celebrating North East Lincolnshire by means of the eyes of the individuals who realize it greatest, residents, and guests, who work, stay or go to right here.

Whether it’s a incredible view of our seashore in Cleethorpes, or an image of somebody who has impressed you in North East Lincolnshire, we wish to see all of them! For all the main points and learn how to submit your images, please go to: Open Photography Exhibition – Create North East Lincolnshire.

Need inspiration for taking that good picture? We’ve acquired you lined with a photograph workshop and stroll alternative at Festival of the Sea on Saturday 20 June in Grimsby city centre.  Join photographer Wes Foster for an exploration of Grimsby’s dockside, noticing the main points of a spot that’s been formed by the ocean, trade and time, and discovering new methods to see and document it. To e-book a spot on the workshop, please go to: Imag(in)ing Space Tickets, Saturday, June 20  •  2 PM – 4 PM | Eventbrite

The open name is led by Abbie Jennings,  an award-winning freelance photographer whose work explores folks, locations and private nostalgia. Visit www.abbiejennings.co.uk for extra about her earlier work.

Abbie Jennings: “I’m really excited about this project and being able to help local people explore their towns, and their relationships with others through photography. I love working with people and developing their own abilities too.”

Abbie is inviting folks to search out out extra or get assist in the submission course of at drop-in periods throughout the open name.  The first one takes place on the Fishing Heritage Centre on 11 June 2026 between 11am and 3pm.  Future drop-in periods to satisfy with Abbie are:

• Tuesday 30 June at Cleethorpes Library, 9am – 1pm
• Tuesday 7 July at Waltham Library, 1:30pm – 4:30pm
• Tuesday 14 July at Immingham Library, 1pm – 4pm