RESIDENTS are having the history of their community served up on a plate.
Photographs of faces from the past have been digitally impressed on to 150 white porcelain dinner plates on display at Middlesbrough's Dorman Museum.
Each plate bears a portrait made by digitally blending the features of two faces from crowds in photographs, taken in the Middlesbrough area over the past 150 years.
The photos include boy workers at a grinding mill in 1859, munitions workers from 1917, teenagers at a bus stop in 1956 and British Steel foundry workers from 1963.
The exhibition has been mounted to celebrate the 150 years Middlesbrough has been a borough.
Digital artist Mark Haywood, the man behind the plates show, said: "We are onlookers over the past 150 years of the town. The faces on the plates who look back at us are not spectators, but they join us as collective witnesses and participants in history."
Published: 24/01/2004
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