This C&C on the theme of ‘Old and New’ was the fourth and final outing in a series of four events intended to help members to interpret and find inspiration for images that reflect each the four themes of Challenge #16, which will provide the images shown at our Summer Exhibition at the York Theatre Royal. The Coppergate Woman production has its roots in the finding of the skeleton of a Viking woman during excavations around Coppergate in the late 1970s. The play imagines the woman coming back to life in contemporary York and the juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern.
As you will see from the gallery, the outing was well attended and our members found plenty to photograph. They were, not surprisingly, drawn to comparisons between ancient and modern architecture, which is much in evidence in York, but flowers and phone boxes, bicycles and buskers, cats and carvings, as well as Vikings and even the Queen also provided ideas and inspiration.
