12201198456?profile=originalA new photography festival Photo Frome is offering an extensive series of exhibitions, talks, workshops and other events. Two events that will be of particular interest to those interested in photographic history.

On 11 July David Lassman and Mick Yartes discuss Alice Seeley Harris who was a Frome resident. It will discuss the work of Alice Seeley, later Lady Harris. In collaboration with Frome Heritage Museum, which is featuring her in their Celebrated Women of Frome exhibition. Alice’s photography shocked the world in the early 1900s with her pictures of human rights abuses in the Belgian Congo, which led to King Leopold’s withdrawal, though her enduring legacy is not without controversy. (contains images which some might find disturbing). 

On 24 June Robin Ravilious will talk about her late husband James Ravilious, the internationally renowned  photographer who spent over 17 years in rural North Devon recording in intimate and affectionate detail the land, its people, their work, and their everyday lives. James started this work in 1972; more than 70,000 images later, his Beaford Archive work had become what the Royal Photographic Society called ‘a unique body of work, unparalleled at least in this country for its scale and quality‘. Robin will discuss James’s life (he died in 1999), his dedicated approach to his work, and the many influences that inspired him.

See full details and book here: https://photofrome.org/talks/

Image: James Ravilious © Beaford Arts digitally scanned !om a Beaford Archive negative. Courtesy The Beaford Archive

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