Twan Leenders: Meet Your Neighbors - Exhibition Program

Name: Twan Leenders: Meet Your Neighbors - Exhibition Program
Start: 2025-11-08T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-08T14:00:00-05:00
Location: 311 Curtis Street exd, Jamestown, NY, United States, New York 14701

Schedule

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

311 Curtis Street exd, Jamestown, NY, United States, New York 14701 | Jamestown, NY

This program is FREE, but registration is encouraged
Click the link to register
Have you ever taken time to observe the tiny frog sitting in your drain pipe, or chat with the caterpillars slowly chewing away at the leaves on your tree?
Please join us on Saturday, November 8, 2025, for an in-person program based on one of the Environmental Impact Award-winning projects now on display at RTPI, Meet Your Neighbours. Attendees will have the chance to hear Twan Leenders, a major contributor to the project and currently Director of Conservation at the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, give a talk on his photography and contributions to the project.
Meet Your Neighbours uses portraiture photography intended to take the viewer’s breath away. Each subject is photographed in the field, against a white background. This technique not only shows the subject in great detail but reveals their translucent qualities too. Each subject becomes a celebrity, an individual.
Founded in 2009, Meet Your Neighbours is a worldwide photographic initiative created by Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt. The project reconnects people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps. These creatures and plants are vital: they represent the first, and for some, the only contact with wild nature we have. Yet too often they are overlooked, undervalued. This is conservation photography at the grass-roots level, asking people to care about where they live and showing them how extraordinary it is in a novel way.