{"id":300620,"date":"2026-02-16T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300620\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:41:06","slug":"bishop-auckland-exhibition-showing-beauty-in-peoples-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300620\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Auckland exhibition showing &#8216;beauty in people&#8217;s differences&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photographer hopes her first solo exhibition will help people see the beauty in others&#8217; differences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Debbie Todd, from Stanley, County Durham, is presenting portraits of people &#8220;often misunderstood or excluded from mainstream media&#8221; at Bishop Auckland Town Hall until 16 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 45-year-old said she hoped her work would encourage people to learn more about others and not judge them &#8220;purely by how they look or how they act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel like there&#8217;s so many people in the world who are not represented and that people kind of don&#8217;t know enough and understand enough so then don&#8217;t feel like they&#8217;re as inclusive as they could be,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer hopes her first solo exhibition will help people see the beauty in others&#8217; differences. Debbie Todd,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-300620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}