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Headlines 5 100 years ago photographer C E Kille was at the height of his career. While his contemporaries took portraits or sold postcards, Kille had a keener eye and used his creativity and technical ability to produce real works of art. In the 1920s images were taken on glass plates with the exposures carefully managed by eye, then followed by hours spent in the darkroom developing and printing images. The 1920s and 1930s saw advances in printing technology that lead to a boom in photojournalism and the use of photography in advertising. An ideal outlet for Kille’s talent, cuttings scrapbooks shows the breadth of his work including national daily papers, advertising contracts and competitions, as well as his many articles for photographic journals. When he closed his business, glass plates from a lifetime’s work were thought lost, left in the shop basement and later thrown into a skip by builders in the 1960s. Ten years ago his granddaughter, clearing boxes for a house move, found a treasure trove of some 400 plates and prints. This tantalisingly small selection of his work is full of charming and engaging pictures of his family as well as many depicting the local area, now of historical signi fi cance – the demolished Minehead Lido, the last launch of the wooden lifeboat, old farming methods, ships and their sailors, and local characters, all The Forgotten Photographer Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon EX14 1LX 01404 45006 | [email protected] | thelmahulbert.com Open: Tues – Sat 10am - 5pm | Free admission, donations welcome THG Open 2025 12 July – 23 August 2025 Generously sponsored by Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood auctioneers thelmahulbertgallery Simon Tutty, THG Open 2023 captured with careful composition and impactful lighting. This year, for the fi rst time, these images will be on show in his home town of Minehead, not 500 yards from where he had his darkroom. This forgotten photographer will be back in the heart of the community which once knew and loved him, providing a window onto the 1920s and ‘30s detailing period clothes, vehicles and agricultural technology, and celebrating Minehead, Exmoor and the South West and capturing a bygone era. Suzy Rushbrook 26 July - 9 August: Townsend House, Townsend Road, MINEHEAD, TA24 5RG. 10am - 4pm. 07769 276166.