BRINGING THE LIGHT BACK

The Camera Club exhibition is always a Festival highlight. Each year the Club work on a theme, and this year, with the hope that the months and years of lockdown are now fading, they have come with a message of hope – ‘Bringing the Light Back’!

The Club was formed in 1977 when two Orkney-based artists, John Cartmel Crossley and Colin Johnstone, called a public meeting with the intention of getting interested photographers together to form a camera club. Initially meetings were in the Kirkwall Town Hall but after a couple of years the club moved to the Kirkwall Girl Guide Hut in Thoms Street and has continued to meet there ever since.