Tavistock Doorstep Portraits

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Wow, what a great project this is turning out to be!

I’ve been asked quite a few times

“what are you doing this for?”

Well as a wedding photographer, I’ve had so many weddings postponed until 2021.
I have all of this free time and I would have been photographing people.
Well, why not still photograph lovely people, just from a safe distance?!

Why not make myself useful and capture what’s going on, and document those who make our town what it is?

I set up an online form and shared it on some local Facebook groups. I had about 100 enquiries at first! I spent a few days organising and separating the enquiries into neighbourhoods, allocated an evening to each, planned a route, emailed everyone a time…

This project is so great to do, I’ve gotten to meet so many people while doing this, and have found so many little areas on foot that I hadn’t been aware of before. I don’t think I’ve ever used Google Maps this much!

This project went on for a fortnight during late May/early June of 2020.

See the bottom of the post for updates.

This project is the result of…

114

households photographed

27

hours of shooting

33

miles walked

And here are the results!

That’s the end of these lovely few weeks of doorstep portraits! Thanks to all of those who’ve participated.

Quite a few of you have wanted to donate money – I’d love for you to donate to either:

Oooh how exciting, I’ve been featured in the local newspaper!

Click here to see the article.

Click here to read “Photographer captures Tavistock families in lockdown” – Tavistock Times

A TAVISTOCK photographer is busy walking the length of the town in order to capture on camera families in lockdown.

Lauren Dillon, a wedding photographer (LDillon Photography), decided to launch doorstep portraits in order to help put a smile on the faces of families from Tavistock.

She said: ‘It’s really important that we make the most of this time we have.

‘I was sat at home, having wedding after wedding rescheduled and thought I might as well be productive and do something.

‘I’d seen others doing similar things and noticed how no-one in Tavistock had done it yet. We’ve got some gorgeous houses and such lovely people, I just thought I’d try and document this crazy time by photographing the people that make our town what it is.’

Lauren has been walking around the town, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, and documenting the people from the pavement or at least 2m away — all for free!

So far, Lauren has visited a few busy residential streets in Tavistock and plans to cover the whole of the town — and wants people to request where she should go next.

She said: ‘I’ve had enquiries from people asking me to come to Callington, Mary Tavy, Plymouth, Bere Alston — but for now, it’s just Tavistock. I’m doing it all on foot and it’s nice to visit areas I hadn’t been to before.

‘It’s something for the little kids to look forward to — we’ve had the photos fall on some people’s birthday, so they had balloons in their photos — and is a good excuse to put on nice clothes and feel somewhat normal again.’

Thanks all!

Lauren Dillon x
Lauren Dillon Photography

Wedding photographer based in Tavistock, Devon. Capturing life as it happens.

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