Tom Bennett

The Tate is currently allowing the public to contribute to an exhibition that it is currently running, How we are: Photographing Britain. You can submit your photos by joining the group How we are now. Limit of four photos per person.

I was under the impression that once the deadline has passed, 40 photos would be selected to be displayed in the Tate as an exhibition. This is quite true, but also, right up until that deadline, all the photos that are currently in the group are being displayed on 4 screens in the exhibition and on the Tate website. To quote the Tate:

The group’s photographs will be displayed on screens as part of the exhibition at Tate Britain. The photographs will also be posted and shared on Tate’s website and on the website of the exhibition’s media partner, The Observer.

In the final weeks of the exhibition, 40 photographs – 10 from each of the four themes – will be chosen by Tate to form the final display in the gallery from 6 August – 2 September 2007. A panel of curators, artists, photographers and others will select the final 40 photographs. The final 40 images will also be archived on Tate Online as part of the exhibition’s website.

Managed to take a quick screenshot of a couple of my images being displayed on the slideshow, Mucky pups and Captured moment.

The other two photos that I submitted are Stonehenge and London eye in colour.

What a great idea from the Tate, I’m certainly going to try to make the effort to get down to the exhibition over the next few weeks.