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Bob Preston is a photographer with a mission.

He wants to photograph as many people in the Cariboo Chilcotin as he can and thereby create a large community portrait of the area through images of its people. Bob will be working with the staff and board members of the Station House Gallery to help achieve this goal from June 10th to June 24th.

(Photo:  Bob Preston)

The portraits will then be exhibited at the Station House Gallery from July 9 – 31, 2010. This is the first in a series of such community portraits Preston hopes to make throughout BC in the coming years. He chose to start this work in the Cariboo Chilcotin because he feels it represented the best of everything BC has to offer, and the people at the Station House Gallery were very excited by the idea and its potential to engage the whole community.

Although this is a community portrait, it is also a personal project for Preston. “I have been a photographer for 30 years and have published and exhibited my work nationally and internationally. In the last 9 years I have been constructing my own portrait cameras and photographing with them almost exclusively. I have always dreamed of doing a large scale portrait project and now that I have hit 50 and am at the top of my craft, it is time to pursue that dream. I will be using digital cameras as well large format film cameras that I have constructed - the results will combine to make a lasting record of the people of this area.

Gallery hours are Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm. Admission is free or by donation.

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