Upcoming Exhibitions
Canwood Gallery - Thursday 23rd July to Sunday 16th August.
Hay Camera Club is delighted and honoured to announce that its member’s photographs have been chosen to be displayed at the prestigious art gallery at Canwood near Hereford. The exhibition entitled ‘Through the Glass Lens’ brings together photographers and leading contemporary glass artists in a shared exploration of light, memory, and perception.
Glass is central to both photography and glass making, not only as a physical material but as a way of shaping how light is gathered, held, and transformed. In photography, glass lenses frame and focus the world. In glass art, the material itself bends, contains, reflects, and refracts light, creating form through transparency and opacity.
In this exhibition, photography and glass are presented side by side, each approaching light from a different perspective. Photographic works capture powerful and memorable moments shaped by glass, from everyday encounters to extraordinary scenes, using light and timing to transform the familiar into something remarkable. Glass artworks, meanwhile, explore light as a material presence, where transparency and reflection allow light to shift, fragment, and reassemble through movement, time, and the viewer’s position.
The exhibition will run from 23rd July to 16th August on Thursday to Sundays 11:00 am - 4:00pm. The gallery is set in lovely countryside at Checkley, HR1 4NF.
Hay Camera Club has an active membership from beginners to more advanced photographers. It organises weekly meetings of speakers, learning events, some competitions and club trips. At the end of July, the club becomes international when it competes against Marlborough Camera Club in New Zealand. It meets in Cusop village hall on Tuesdays and sometimes by Zoom. Peter Seaman, chair of the club said “We are friendly and keen to learn more about our interest: we warmly welcome new members with further information available via our website at Haycameraclub.com”