Off The Shelf is an installation of photographs showing at Hull Central Library until mid December 2017 – encounters between documentary photographer and the Hull Library Service.

The installation features images created at Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Heads Up Festival, The Big Malarkey Festival, Head in a Book, Untold Hull, and elsewhere. The support that the library service provides for arts in the city is exceptional, and this display of images helps to illustrate the wide variety of projects delivered, often in partnership with leading artists and arts organisations. Hull Library Service is not just a provider of venues for some remarkable events and host to renowned authors and artists, it’s also a producer.

With this exhibition of photographs taken in the last few years (call it a retrospective if you’re arty enough) I wanted to steer clear of framed prints on walls. My encounters with the Hull Library Service are usually lighter appointments in my calendar, for example meeting Booker Prize winning authors for a portrait shoot and banter, or sitting in on a kids’ show for E52’s Heads Up theatre festival. This exhibition, then, was an opportunity for playfulness too.

I hope you like how we’re presenting the images, huge thanks are due to the team at Garthwest Ltd, Hull’s nationally respected packaging company, we rather love our boxes – there are about 200 of them on display!

Come along to Hull Central Library and explore Off The Shelf, we’re already pleased to hear visitors exclaiming phrases such as ‘oh gosh, I remember that!’

Let me know what you think, and share your photos online with the hashtag #OffTheShelf

Thanks,

Jerome

Off The Shelf is funded by Hull Culture and Leisure, and the James Reckitt Library Trust.


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