Field Notes exhibition in Whitby showcases variety of Yorkshire life
An exhibition featuring photography by George Hutton and writing by Cameron Hill, who are both local to the Whitby area, is currently on at the town’s Pannett Art Gallery.
Yorkshire covers 10% of England’s land mass, a sprawling landscape threaded through with networks of work, culture and everyday life, woven into the moors and dales over generations.
This exhibition draws a year spent reporting across the rural corners of the county – joining lobster fishermen, moors rangers, farmers, fossil hunters and other groups chosen to show the deep variety of life here.
After growing up in the Esk Valley, George now moves between international photo projects and producing collections that profile the Whitby area.
Field Notes starts with sunrise at the Whitby Abbey.
It then flows into the North Sea with lobster fishers, welcomed back onto land by fossil hunters, then the park rangers build a path between land and the beach, continuing into the valley to visit rural churches and young farmers.
It is then drawn to a close with rural communities through the gooseberry show and the age-old game of quoits before finishing where it began, but with a sunset at Whitby Abbey.
Each frame has been bought second hand from charity shops around the area to provide a worn and lived-in feel to encase each photograph.
Purposely picking a certain type of wooden frame that to George, felt familiar, having grown up around old photos in these frames.
Field Notes runs until November 23.