A PHOTOGRAPHER says he is excited to go into business with an old school friend as he opens a gallery of his work.
Graham Binns is opening up his self-titled gallery above artisan pies and bakery cafe, Hunters of Haworth on Main Street, Haworth, on Saturday.
Mr Binns, and the shop's owner, Nick Sharp, both 38, have been friends since meeting as pupils at Denholme Middle School aged five.
They have now decided to venture into the world of business together, as Mr Binns opens up a gallery of his landscape photographs above the shop.
Mr Sharp opened up his pie shop and cafe earlier this summer and it has already proven a hit with visitors to Haworth.
Mr Binns, who lives in Scholes, hopes this success can rub off on his business, which will officially open from this weekend, between 11am and 5pm both days and then from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 4.30pm, each day.
A number of precautions will be in place at the gallery to adhere to government guidelines on social distancing, also including a limit on the number of people allowed in the gallery at any one time, a number of hand sanitisers and a visitors' book for the NHS Trace and Trace programme.
Mr Binns, who is also a Telegraph & Argus Camera Club member, said: "It's my first gallery.
"I have been a photographer for a few years. I have known Nick since first school. We are two friends who have known each other for 33 years.
"It's a permanent gallery. I have put a lot of money into it.
"Nick opened his shop a few weeks ago and his pies have been going down a storm. He has had so many compliments for the quality of his pies.
"The amount of people coming into the shop means we will hopefully be busy.
"I'm really excited about Saturday.
"There are not really many local photographs in my gallery. They are from Cornwall, Yorkshire and Scotland like the Isle of Skye. They have been taken for the last four to five years.
"For the last couple of years I have taken them all on film. I have used cameras from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
"I've been a photographer for some time now and his idea to let me use the floor above the shop as a gallery where people can just come to view the gallery and possibly stay for a coffee, cake and pie or view the gallery whilst visiting specifically for a pie.
"I specialise in traditional analogue methods of film for capturing striking landscape images.
"From this week I will be putting in darkroom prints into the gallery.
"This recent period has meant that I have thought 'I have got to go for it'".
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