© Rosie Barnes

Postcards from Great Britain is a largescale project from Shutter Hub, inviting photographers to share their visions of British culture through photographic images to create conversations and exchange. Pop-up exhibitions will be held in locations across Europe, with related events, showcasing thousands of postcard-sized images. Every image submitted to Postcards from Great Britain will be collated into a digital and print catalogue, to be housed in libraries and archives around the world, and 100 images will be selected for a collectable postcard set. (See the up-to-date Project Overview here).

In a significant time in European history this project sets out to document and share aspects of British culture, spanning all genres of photography, and collating images which include social, political, historical, traditional and observational responses.

When we’re putting together our exhibitions we love finding the connections between images taken by different photographers in completely different locations, at totally different times. Sometimes it’s a colour that several photographers have been drawn to, sometimes a resemblance in the scene, sometimes the lines just flow from one to the other. So for this collection we’re stripping things back and focussing on form. As part of our Postcards from Great Britain ‘Curated Collections’ we bring you this themed feature – Making Shapes.

© Debbie Naylor

© Susan Bittker

© Louise Hagger

© Gemma Taylor

© Gerard Francis

Would you like your work to be part of the Postcards from Great Britain archive and future exhibitions? The Call for Entries is open until 31 December 2020 – find out more and enter here!

Postcards from Great Britain is supported by: FujiFilm Original Photo Paper

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