PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER MISHKA HENNER HEADING FOR BARROW

LEADING international photographer and artist Mishka Henner is the latest high-profile guest to visit Furness as part of the new digital arts programme Lost Stations.

Born in Belgium and based in Manchester, he is redefining the role of photography in the internet age, and his work is held in the Tate Collection, the Centre Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

On Thursday June 15, he will be at Cooke's Studios, in Barrow, to talk about his incredible 15-year career, which has seen him shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.