Rotary’s ‘Life in Lockdown’ Photography Competition

The winning photograph, ‘Lost Connections’, was taken in Harrogate by Hannah Morris. It shows her daughter, Lucy Morris, outside with her cousin, Mary Walker, inside socially distancing at what should have been a ‘baby shower’ event, prevented by ’lock down’ restrictions.

The third photograph, ‘Save the Arts’, was taken inside Harrogate Theatre by Rachel Auty, Head of Communications at Harrogate Theatre prior to April 2020.  Rachel teamed up with two performing artists and a film maker to create a short film about the need to support the arts through the crisis that can be seen at https://medium.com/@rachauty/same-storm-the-arts-in-crisis-200851f24ce5. She spent the day in an eerily empty theatre using polystyrene heads from the wardrobe department to visualise social distancing, illustrating that 2m distancing in the auditorium isn’t financially viable. 

Harrogate Theatre has now received two Arts Council England sums to sustain it until April 2021. It will remain closed to the public until then. Many of Rachel’s colleagues were made redundant in the summer. It’s a worrying time for the arts and all those employed in the industry.

Highly Commended runners up were taken by Mike Morley ‘Cats Lockdown’, Sue Lunn ‘Caring for Grandchildren Whose Parents are Keyworkers’, David Moore ‘Temperature Check’ and ‘Sign of the Times’, Sue Parton ‘NHS Rainbow’, and Jonathan Coot ’Socially distancing market’.

Knaresborough Rotary club are grateful to all those who submitted photographs. The Judges, Charlotte Gayle and Brian Souter, both Rotarians and professional photographers, enjoyed looking at the photographs. The only disappointment was that there was only one entrant under eighteen. Surely with all those mobile phones out there someone under the age of 18 has taken photographs since March?

Knaresborough Rotary is currently meeting online. Rotary is a non-political, non-religious, worldwide service organisation, open to men and women of all cultures, races, and creeds. To find out more contact rotaryknares@gmail.com visit www.knaresborough.rotary1040.org or find us on Facebook.