THE curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock says he is “delighted” to have captured a photographic exhibition by Welsh photographer John Paul Evans.

‘What is lost…What has been’ is a photographic exhibition from the 2016 Hasselblad Masters Award winner John Paul Evans.

Museum curator Roger Watson says he has been following Mr Evans for the past four years and is delighted to be exhibiting his photographic work.

He said: “These images may strike some as strange - in the history of photography they are portraying things seldom seen - but that’s OK. It means that an all-important dialogue has begun.”

The tragi-comic series of work comes to the Fox Talbot Museum gallery as it re-opens following a month of refurbishment work in late March.

Mr Evans, 53, is a Welsh born photographic artist and academic who now lives in East Devon with his husband Peter Phillips, 81.

His metaphoric series examines various points of view regarding gay marriage - with the pictures of ‘otherness’ fluctuating between the poignant, the comic, and a potentially disturbing presence in the domestic space.

Mr Evans said: “Contemporary attitudes around gender, sexual orientation and the nature of human relationships are still a mixed bag of opinions on what is considered ‘proper’ or ‘natural’.

“As a species, until we can embrace life in all its permutations, accepting all as part of life’s rich tapestry, and leave prejudice and condemnation in the dustbin of history, well, we still have some work to do.”

The exhibition introduces visitors to four chapters of Mr Evans work, each forming a view to his interest in gender representation and the discourse around representing men under patriarchy.

The exhibition will be on show at the National Trust’s Fox Talbot Museum until July 14.