{"id":259549,"date":"2025-11-13T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:08:08","slug":"online-exhibition-to-celebrate-island-photographer-james-dore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259549\/","title":{"rendered":"Online exhibition to celebrate Island photographer James Dore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  James Dore, who died on November 25, 1925, was a photographer during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As well as preserving Island history through his photographs, he was also Sandown\u2019s pioneering fire chief, as well as a councillor, magistrate, and owner of a High Street jewellery business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countypress.co.uk\/news\/25056859.ten-perfect-pictures-captured-island-photographers\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ten perfect pictures captured by Island photographers<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>James Dore in ceremonial fire brigade uniform, 1920 (Image: Isle of Wight Fire Brigades Federation)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Building the Bay is celebrating Dore\u2019s centenary with an online exhibition of his historic images which capture daily life and landscapes in the Bay area in the late 1800s and early 1900s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  These will be posted over the coming weeks on the Bay Heritage Facebook page and the Building the Bay website in partnership with the Isle of Wight Heritage Service, starting with Dore\u2019s photographs of the Bay&#8217;s shoreline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countypress.co.uk\/news\/25431511.stunning-images-scooped-island-photographic-societys-end-year-competition\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stunning images scooped in Island photographic society&#8217;s end of year competition<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Boy with toy yacht (Image: Isle of Wight Heritage Service)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Paul Coueslant, Building the Bay\u2019s heritage representative, said: &#8220;Dore\u2019s legacy is a precious record of Island life in the decades before the First World War.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Because of him, we\u2019re able to see how the Bay area looked in Victorian times and the changes that have taken place since.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We\u2019re fortunate that so many of his original negatives survive thanks to the Isle of Wight Heritage Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Dore, who died on November 25, 1925, was a photographer during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-259549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}