Youth and the elderly in photography

As part of the ongoing ArtCaritas project in collaboration with Start artists, photographer Joe Smith has tackled the issue of youth and the elderly in a photography exhibition.

It is being displayed at the Inquisitors Palace, in Vittoriosa, after which it will be displayed at St Aloysius College in the first months of 2004.

The pictures were taken when a group of volunteers spent an afternoon at St Catherine's residential home.

Mr Smith studied art and design in Malta and Florence, Italy where he was awarded a scholarship in 1983.

He is a member of the Malta Photographic Society, Fellow of the Malta Institute of Professional Photographers, and Associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and in 2001 was the first and only Maltese photographer to achieve fellowship status of the Malta Institute of Professional Photographers.

In October 2002 he was awarded the prestigious Overseas Master Photographer Award of the Master Photographers Association of the UK in the Fashion/Illustrative category.