Your Retail Soulmate - opening night

Still getting over how many people were kind enough to come and visit the opening night of this exhibition. I took some pictures early on to capture how good all of the exhibits looked in this unique venue ( Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane Leeds but did not capture the idea of how many people were there. Must have been a couple of hundred all in all and people were very kind in commenting about my work and that of the other 6 artists. If you did not catch it there is still time - the exhibition runs until 18th May and the venue is open most days - best bet is around lunch time when the cafe is open too. If you cannot get there here are my shots and a few general views of the exhibition. My aim was to get people to move along the pews where the images were sited and get them to read the little cards telling you who the subjects were. Seemed to work pretty well and it was fun seeing people shuffling along! Thanks again those that came and do catch it if you can - the differing styles of shooting and processing are really interesting and it was my first chance to see the work of others too and some talented people in there.



Rat sells the Big Issue on Briggate - here outside the exclusive Victorian Quarter

Tom with one of his dogs which later died!

Tom busks alone now

Chris has been selling the Evening Post for 12 years in town

I love it that Kava, from Afghanistan, sells his mobile accessories bang outside the Carphone Warehouse

Amer says times are hard and he might have to go back to security work if business does not pick up

The Marvellous Cake company now have a tearoom near the market and do great cakes, tea dances etc etc!

Andrew and his great pop up streetfood fish stall on Commercial Street

Universal Dread now touring in Europe

Malcolm - 40 years a warehouseman with Grattans and now doorman at Harvey Nichols

My work in the pews - as big as I could print them to safely stand in situ

We even had music