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Matinee: 'Anne Lees'
29 July 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 511th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Anne Lees.
This 5:40 video by Mick Child is the second episode of a series called Local People Behind the Camera. The locality is North Cambridgeshire in the east of England where Anne Lees works as a photographer for the Village Tribune, a local bi-monthly magazine.
Lees also established a walking group called the Amblers. And she takes photographer Dave Radcliffe on one of her favorite walks in the area.
There's a working quarry in the area but that doesn't detract from the peacefulness of the area, she says. As they walk along, she tells her story.
When she married in the 1980s, she and her husband bought a 35mm SLR and set up a darkroom in the bedroom closet. She took an evening class to learn the ropes and later in the video she recalls the lessons she learned.
She remembers her father taking family snapshots and encouraging her to save up lolly sticks to send in for a single-use camera. She dreamed about the photos she would make.
Radcliffe asks her what her favorite subject is and what's her favorite time of year.
Nature is her favorite subject, she confides. But she loves every season, although spring is special for bringing everything back to life.
Radcliffe asks if the images she's published in the local bi-monthly were all captured with her smartphone.
Yes, they were, she admits. Cameras are just too heavy for her to carry these days. And they smartphone captures are automatic, so she doesn't have to worry about camera settings. But she still enjoys editing the images later when she gets home.
Although it seems she's in no rush to end such a pleasant walk to head home.