Waddesdon Manor’s Christmas art exhibit

Hills Road’s subject leader for Photography, Tuuli Parker, has been working with the National Trust’s Learning Centre at Waddesdon Manor, to help support them with their Christmas Exhibition. This year, the theme for the exhibit is based on ‘The Lights that Dance in the Night’ by Yuval Zommer.

Photography students were invited to take part in this festive event by creating a series of images inspired by the book using a process called Lumen printing. This involves the use of traditional photographic paper and exposing it to UV light, which makes the paper change colour. The image is then made permanent by fixing it in traditional darkroom chemicals.

The students embraced the photographic brief with enthusiasm and were very inventive and creative in their approach, producing some very successful images! Throughout this process, they used a variety of natural materials, including leaves, flowers and berries.

Their work has now been sent off to Waddesdon Manor and will form part of the exhibition alongside the work from other schools that took part! Congratulations to all of those who took part, this is a fantastic opportunity, and we cannot wait to see how the exhibition turns out!