THE MAYNE EVENT

DOUBLE SHOWS FOR PHOTOGRAPHER ROGER MAYNE

A RETROSPECTIVE show of work by the ground-breaking Lyme Regis photographer Roger Mayne has opened in London.

The Photographer's Gallery off Oxford Street in London is the first show of Roger's work to be displayed since he died in 2014.

His daughter Katkin, a ceramicist from Netherbury, worked closely with curator Anna Douglas to bring together some of his finest images including a painstaking reconstruction of the exuberant 1964 colour slide installation The British at Leisure.

Roger first came to prominence in the late 50s and early 60s with stunning black and white studies of city life, children at play and teen culture (these stills were used in the film of Absolute Beginners) and the show features a definitive selection of his famous portrait of Southam Street.

Katkin said "Forty years on since my dad's first show at The Photographer's Gallery it's been wonderful to see some of his best images displayed together again - and how much they still affect old and new audiences."

Closer to home, there will be a chance to see large-scale prints by Roger at an exhibition at the Thelma Hubert Gallery in Honiton, opening this Saturday.

On display is a collection of large-scale prints that used to be hung at a barn at the family home of Roger Mayne in Lyme Regis - plus the photographs he took for the 1975 Shell Guide to Devon that were written by Katkin's mother Ann Jellicoe.

An accompanying book has been produced by his friend David Hibberd and fellow artist Roger Polley.