A photographer is aiming to capture 100 portraits of centenarians - recording their stories along the way. In 2012 Kevin Wilson, from Dorchester, Dorset, photographed 20 100-year-olds for his fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, and the collection was turned into a book. He revived the project after being asked to photograph a friend's 105-year-old mother and has so far gathered portraits of 56 of people who are 100 years old or more. He is still looking for subjects and hopes to complete the project by the end of the year before holding an exhibition. Wilson said: "I had no intention of publishing a book, my intention was to get a fellowship with these pictures. "I did the fellowship and my printer at the time said 'I would love to make a book for you on the people you've photographed'. "He formulated this book, plus he did some research on some of these people and they had some quite remarkable stories." The Covid pandemic forced Wilson to pause his work but a commission to photograph a friend's mother two years ago "reinvigorated" him to find more century-old subjects. He said: "I thought I'm never ever going to get 100 but if I could get 50 that's quite an achievement.
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A photographer is aiming to capture 100 portraits of centenarians - recording their stories along the way. In 2012 Kevin Wilson, from Dorchester, Dorset, photographed 20 100-year-olds for his fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society,…
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