Being launched on Saturday, June 5, Great Yarmouth’s 'Finding Emerson Photo Festival 2021' plans to place Great Yarmouth within the history of photography and the work of the 19th century photographer Peter Henry Emerson.

Contemporary photographers, academics and curators have been invited to share their own understanding and practice with residents through a programme of seminars, break-out sessions, exhibitions and art installations.

The festival will provide people with the chance to discover more about P.H. Emerson, the history and development of photography as a whole, contemporary photographic approaches and the cultural heritage of Great Yarmouth.

The festival is a collaboration between Utter Nonsense and originalprojects and is being funded by Arts Council England.

Six Great Yarmouth venues will be used for different parts of the festival, including:

• St George’s Theatre

• Primeyarc Gallery, in the old Debenhams unit of Market Gates shopping centre

• Skippings Gallery, on King Street

• The Yare Gallery, in the old Nelson museum on South Quay

• Time and Tide Museum

• Utter Nonsense Studios, down Battery Road near the Barrack Estate

All events are free, apart from the seminars, where donations between £2 - £8 are being requested.

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