Local

LOCAL

portraits by Sam Scott-Hunter

I have photographed all sorts of people in all sorts of places.

But they’re not from around here, local to where I live now.

Since I’d landed in Burton Latimer, a Northamptonshire town near Kettering, I’d travelled to take photographs, and people travelled to me, but I hadn’t photographed anybody local.

As a way to explore what was going on around me, I started asking some local people if I could take their picture.

Each time I photographed someone I asked if they could suggest someone else who might be a suitable subject, and I let that randomness guide me.

These are some of the local people I met along the way.

Thank you to everyone who helped create these photographs, including those who were camera-shy but took the brave step to stand in front of my camera.

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Kettering lettering: The typeface used here is Kettering 105 by Talbot Type Cover picture: Kezzabelle, performance poet

Rusti Steel

Kezzabelle,

performance poet

Ade Law

Mick Henson, sculptor

Markus Reeves, Reeves Electro guitar pedals

Heidi Vowles, manager of the Burton Latimer Community Library

Chris Palmer, with a Wickies skateboard, celebrating the old concrete skatepark that used to be in Wicksteed Park. The words that have been worn away say “eighteen feet deep, for old times ache, since 1978”