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Bernard Heymann with Hampstead Cemetery foreman Andy Brackell |
Dig photos? Cemetery pictures contest
CEMETERY bosses have launched a photography competition based on the theme “Images of West Hampstead” in a bid to raise the profile of a graveyard.
While the competition aims to capture the essence of West Hampstead – from people to gardens and buildings – The Friends of Hampstead Cemetery came up with the idea after taking hundreds of pictures of the cemetery.
The group, which is based in Fortune Green Road, hope the competition will not only send the people of West Hampstead into a snapping frenzy, but also gain new fans for the cemetery and its tranquil setting, and in particular pull in younger members.
Competition notices will be posted in schools to spark the interest of pupils, who will have their own under-16s category and prize, although there will also be three main winners.
The exhibition will be shown in the Friends’ lodge during the Jester festival in July, while the three best pictures will each win a prize.
Bernard Heymann, chairman of the Friends, hopes local businesses will come forward to support the competition and offer prizes.
“The cemetery is the lung of West Hampstead,” added Mr Heymann. “It’s 27 acres of lovely open space and it’s quiet.
“We just want to get people interested in it and we want more people to come here.”
Laying down the rules of the competition, he said photographs could be of anything, indoors or out, of a person, a place or an animal, but they had to demonstrate “an obvious connection” to West Hampstead.
The event is being sponsored by the Islington and Camden cemetery service and Plastic Sandwich, a binding company from Fortune Green, who will judge the competition.
For more information, contact Mr Heymann on 020 7435 9375, or visit the cemetery. A maximum of three photographs, marked with the entrant’s details on the reverse, should be sent to: The Friends of Hampstead Cemetery, 69 Fortune Green Road, NW6 1DR, no later than June 20. |
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