She_Captures 24 hours in Portsmouth

She_Captures is a small women’s photography group that has been regularly meeting, going on trips, sharing knowledge and participating in projects for a number of years. Following on from a successful pop-up exhibition in a seafront shelter in May 2019, some members of the group embarked on a project to photograph Portsmouth over a 24 hour period.

The event was planned to coincide with the weekend of the Kite Festival and other local events, however, adverse weather meant activities were drastically scaled back, creating some real photographic challenges. The group started photographing Portsmouth at 10am on 10 August 2019 moving onto a new location every hour until 10am on 11 August 2019.

The following photographs represent a selection of what we collectively photographed during each hour of the day and night. We had hoped to replicate our pop-up exhibition from 2019 but the Covid lockdown situation meant that this wasn’t possible. An online exhibition seemed to be the obvious solution and we hope you enjoy viewing it as much as we enjoyed taking part.