Current Art Gallery Exhibition

Hereford Photography Festival

Contemporary photography that addresses human, social and cultural issues, locally, nationally and internationally.

Saturday 23 May 09 - Sunday 21 June 09

Hereford Photo Festival is pleased to present a photographic retrospective of the work of photographer and film maker John Bulmer.

Throughout the fifties and sixties, John Bulmer's contribution to British photojournalism was both extensive and significant. Working as a photographer for the Daily Express, the quarterly magazine Man About Town and the Sunday Times he worked on assignments both abroad and in the UK. One of his significant bodies of work was made in the North of England and is an affectionate look at the day to day lives of people whose way of life was rapidly disappearing.

In 1962 the Sunday Times launched the Sunday Times Colour Supplement, the first colour newspaper supplement in Britain. Having chosen to use colour film rather than the black and white format of his contemporaries, John Bulmer was one of the few photographers prepared for the dawn of colour editorials and he swiftly became a key contributor. This timely retrospective will show John Bulmer’s important work from the North of England, and his series of international assignments commissioned by The Sunday Times.
 
John Bulmer will be talking to Eamonn McCabe at the Hay Festival on Wednesday 27th May 2009 at 1pm

Photographic Portraits by Al Vandenberg

Tuesday 12 May 09 - Sunday 12 July 09

On the stairwell leading from the library foyer to the museum

A selection of photographic portraits by this native New Yorker who has lived in Hereford since the late 1970s.  All the portraits are of young Herefordians that Al has photographed over the past 30 years; see if you can spot yourself amongst them.  Al was a founder member of the Hereford Photography Festival and exhibited regularly in this annual show during the early 1990s.

Building on the Museum service's long-standing links with local artists.