{"id":496111,"date":"2026-03-26T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496111\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:02:07","slug":"keighley-photographer-showcases-ordinary-people-who-became-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496111\/","title":{"rendered":"Keighley photographer showcases &#8216;ordinary people who became extraordinary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former newspaper photographer showcasing his work in Keighley has said the exhibition aims to offer a &#8220;sideways view&#8221; of life in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bob Smith worked for Keighley News for 31 years and began photographing for the exhibition in May last year as part of Bradford City of Culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite being an exhibition about &#8220;real people&#8221;, K-Town People features two MBE recipients &#8211; England rugby player Ellie Kildunne and Charles Morris, who owns the Picture House Cinema and received an MBE in the New Year honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith said the exhibition, which is on display at Keighley Creative until Saturday, was focused on the &#8220;ordinary people of Keighley who turned out to be quite extraordinary in many ways&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former newspaper photographer showcasing his work in Keighley has said the exhibition aims to offer a &#8220;sideways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496111","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=496111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}