Snapshots
NORTH EAST IMAGES TO FEATURE IN FINAL 100 IN EXHIBITION
FRANTIC Carol Bennett is begging her missing boy to come home.
It has now been almost two weeks since David Bennett vanished after slipping out his mum’s house - and no-one has heard from him since.
Carol says her 30-year-old son lost his phone while out the night before he disappeared.
Carol said: “It is just as though he’s vanished. There’s no trace, no sightings, no leads, nothing. I just feel ill. I’ll do anything to bring him back home.”
And speaking directly to David, she added: “No matter what it is, please just come home, we love you. Anything can be sorted out.”
David lives with his dad Charlie in Shiney Row, near Houghton-leSpring, but would regularly visit his mum in the village.
And Carol, 56, said there’s rarely a day that she does not speak to her son.
David had been working at the TACLE Seating factory in Houghton-le-Spring until a recent operation on his neck stopped him from working. Police said:“If anyone knows his whereabouts we would encourage them to contact us.” Call 101 quoting 589365 with information. Reporter THESE three snaspshots will be displayed across the country as part of an exhibition celebrating Britain’s diversity.
The British Journal of Photography asked the public to submit photographs that represent the nation and the final 100 have now been unveiled.
They will now feature in the Portrait of Britain exhibition from tomorrow and you could see them at train stations, shopping centres - including the Metrocentre - and on Britain’s high streets.
Terry Graham, originally of South Shields, has been working on a documentary showcasing what goes on behind the scenes of the North East wrestling circuit.
He entered his photograph of wrestler ‘Hayden Tempest,’ of South Shields wrestling club Almost Pro, in the competition.
Terry, 32, who is now based in London, said: “I was photographing another guy and I turned around and saw him pouring water over himself, slapping his elbows and getting ready and thought that is a great shot.
“He is a big guy and really mean in the ring, but behind the scenes he’s a really nice jolly giant.”
Photographer and filmmaker Jane Hilton, who is based in London, had her picture of “hensioner” Pat Caine taken at a Gateshead care home picked.
The home introduced hens as part of a scheme to introduce henkeeping, to improve the lives and health of elderly residents.
Jane, who took the image in 2015, said: “It was the most amazing project to help elderly people living alone.
“It was their responsibility to look after the hens and they would take the chicks and hens to schools. They loved meeting the kids.
“They were just a really happy bunch of people who lived life to the full.”
Jane added: “I feel it will put a smile on faces.”
Professional photographer Alex Telfer’s portrait of Linda Gask, who is a professor in psychiatry at the University of Manchester, was one of the winning images.
Alex, who has a studio in Byker, Newcastle, said: “I think the thing about this competition is that it covers all walks of