“What we do today is the tradition of tomorrow.”

©2007 Living Craft Project

The Living Craft Project has been created to showcase our great British traditional and Heritage crafts and the craftsmen and women in action today.

Using our rapidly expanding library of professional, high quality, contemporary images and with help from the craftspeople themselves, our information and educational resources are raising the profile of our crafts industries in our ‘local’ and ‘worldwide’ communities.

The LCP is far from ‘just another’ web based image library. You’ll see that our relaxed, vibrant, documentary style of photography results in images that capture some of the spirit of our craftspeople at work, bringing our crafts to life.

We often hear how the ‘old’ traditions are ‘dying out’, that our ‘heritage’ is a thing of the past that we should cherish and remember - quite true and a key part of the LCP is to collect our ‘heritage’ and work proactively to raise it’s profile and make it accessible - understanding our past helps us understand our present.

You’d be quite right in thinking that there’s not much difference then in what the Living Craft Project is doing and every other image library, archive or museum do - IF that were all we were doing.

What makes the LCP exciting, dynamic and unique is that we’re working ‘with’ the crafts industries, not just pointing a camera ‘at’ them. Many of the ‘old ways’ aren’t evident in today’s industries - not because they’ve just ‘died out’ though - more because they’re evolving alongside the ‘new’ ways - and in understanding this, the LCP truly is leading the way forward - understanding what’s happening today leads to an understanding of tomorrow.

Our LCP photographers are themselves expert craftspeople in their field, just as the craftspeople in our images are experts in theirs. The Living Craft Project brings them together in a meaningful way.

As a team, we work closely to ensure our images and resources are evocative and illustrate the craft work and crafts accurately. The craftspeople in our images are very much part of the Living Craft Project itself - as are the photographers, trainers, educators, those looking for craft products and services, schools, children, in fact, anyone who wants to know a little more about the heritage of tomorrow - a growing community you can join.

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