CAPTURING photographs of creatives with their passion of craft, spaces worked in and what makes them tick has been an incredible experience for a local photographer. Marc Bongers said recording the next chapter of ‘Beechworth Family Album - Portraits of Creative Beechworth’ with his camera had been an incredibly rewarding experience. ‘Everyone was doing something that they love, and I was in the process of doing what I love doing,” he said. “Everyone one was a little nitty gritty about what they do, why they do it, how they do it and moulded the way I assessed how I was going to take the photos. “I wanted to try and work where they created their art into my photos too. “The challenge I had and really enjoyed, was going into everyone's different studio spaces.” Mr Bongers said while he’s often captured artists’ work in presentations, it's another thing to bring someone into the artist’s space where the work is created. An exhibition brief for black and white photos had been a perfect fit for Mr Bongers. “Black and white photography is an area of what I love and goes back to my roots where I first started,” he said. The photographer said he has loved taking photos since he was a ten-year-old. In helping to record artistic creativity in the community Mr Bongers said a lot of his work is documentary style photography. “I’ve worked for North East Media for over 20 years and that's part of documenting what goes on,” he said. “This is effectively going to be a time capsule of photos of a selection of artists in Beechworth and it's great to be a part of it.” The exhibition held in the Sub Treasury building in Beechworth’s historic precinct ran over the long weekend until Monday. The exhibition now relocated to the Beechworth Library runs there until 30 June.
