Joanna Theunissen and Jenny Thompson have been friends since school. An Exhibition Of Photographic Images is their third collaboration - sharing their love of great images to be captured on the coast. Norwich-based photographer Jenny Thompson is particularly pleased with the image of the Candy Floss Bar, photographed in north Norfolk. "It was taken towards the end of summer 2002 and I wanted a piece that had extreme contrasts in shape and colour," she said. "I enjoy photographing Cromer - I think the style of the writing and waltzers make it a timeless picture. It could be from any point in the last 50 years. "What I like about it most is the deserted feel, the heavy grey sky and nobody around, a lack of people," she added. Joanna's love affair with the lighthouse began when she was a student at Norwich School of Art and Design. She took regular trips to the Norfolk coast and, in particular, to Happisburgh.
 | | Happisburgh lighthouse (detail) |
"Each time I visited Happisburgh I was amazed by how much the coastline had eroded. The lighthouse became a point of reference, a dependable beacon on a fiercely changing coastline," she said. During 2004, Joanna exhibited her collection of East Anglian lighthouse images at the Take Five Gallery in Norwich and at the Norwich Fringe Festival. "I began searching for other lighthouses in East Anglia, referencing nine in total, from Hunstanton to Orford Ness. At Orford Ness I was again struck by the imminent threat of the sea on the coastline and more pressingly, on the actual lighthouse," she said. For Jenny, it was the call of the wind turbines that originally took her to the coast. "I started to photograph wind turbines as they are massive sculptures on the landscape. They then drew me further out to the coast as they portray man's impact on the landscape, without man in it," she said. "I want to do more seascape and environmental photography, concentrating on the coastal erosion in Norfolk, which I hope to encompass in an exhibition at some point," she added. The exhibition in Ber Street features a collection of photographic images displayed traditionally and on canvas. An Exhibition Of Photographic Images can be seen at the Tea Lounge, Ber Street, Norwich, until Saturday 5 February, from 10am-5pm Monday to Saturday. | 
