A Keswick photographer has been shortlisted in a national competition for his work at Appleby Horse Fair.
Tim Fisher, who runs the town’s Northern Lights Gallery, had the image of the young traveller girl featured in the annual Portrait of Britain book, put together by the British Journal of Photography and JC Devaux.
However, Tim said he was disappointed that the photograph did not make it into the final 100 images, which will exhibited nationally.
On average, Tim has had one of his portraits selected in each of the competition’s years that PoB has been running since 2015.
Tim said: “Annually you get to submit a maximum of 10 images per submission, images taken over the preceding 12 months. Since I attended the Appleby Horse Fair for four days each year, I do with a view to capturing some portraiture for competitions such as this, but also I have a longer term project in mind which will culminate one day in a published larger body of Appleby Horse Fair work.
“Each day I take along a different lighting assistant, the aim is to come away with several defining portraits, so having only one single image selected is a little disappointing.
“Whilst selecting my 10 images, Josie was the final image that I thought would be suitable, which to my mind it was not my strongest portrait, indeed, I considered it my weakest shot.”
