Estate's pets are captured on camera

TREASURED pets will form the focus of a specially-commissioned body of work to be exhibited next week.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Jun 2013, 08:00 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:21 BST
A photograph taken by D Jun-Yu LowA photograph taken by D Jun-Yu Low
A photograph taken by D Jun-Yu Low

As part of the Festival of Chichester, Chichester Community Development Trust, in association with ZeroC Holdings, will present Roussillon Pets, a series of pictures by award-winning animal photographer, 
D Jun-Yu Low.

Her new photographs, taken of the four-legged residents of Roussillon 
Park housing scheme, are intimate but unsentimental: a cat peers, uncertainly, out from under a heap of blankets in a furnitureless room; another scentmarks a bunch of crocuses growing in the garden – the only things planted so far; a dog rolls happily on an old living room rug that is reassuringly familiar, from her last home.

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The housing development welcomed its first residents in October 2012, and among them were six cats, seven dogs, and two guinea pigs – now the subjects of Low’s work.

Another of the photographs taken by D Jun-Yu LowAnother of the photographs taken by D Jun-Yu Low
Another of the photographs taken by D Jun-Yu Low

The exhibition, which launches on Friday, June 21, is free, but a suggested donation of £1 will be collected for the benefit of Chichester’s RSPCA Mount Noddy Animal Centre.

Head to Roussillon Park’s showhome at 11 Donegall Avenue; limited edition prints will be available, and all profits from the sale of prints go to the same cause.

The show runs until Saturday, June 29 – it will be open from 10am-5.15pm, Thursday to Sunday only.