The four exhibitions viewed, form part of the Bristol Photo Festival that is a new and innovative festival celebrating the power and diversity of photography. It commissions and produces national, international solo and group exhibitions in a biennial festival, alongside an ongoing programme of talks, events, workshops and training.

The Snappers enjoyed, but also had their critiques, of the photos with a general agreement that the exhibits on display were not all to Snappers standards ... perhaps we are not too bad after all? 

The exhibits represented a wide variety of life.

• ‘Island Life’ provides snapshots of life around post-war Britain by the Martin Parr Foundation;
• ‘Lips Touched With Blood’ is a series of black and white images highlighting the iniquities of colonialism along with some stunning portraits of Africans by Sarah Waswa a Kenyan photographer;
• ‘Beyond the Frame’ is a series of photographs that offers a post-colonial perspective on the paintings from the 18th century is presented by Heather Aguepong, Jessica Fairbrother and Lua Ribera;
• ‘Ghanaian Modernism’ is a series of photographs from James Barnor that reveals aspects of the early Afro/Caribbean society in Britain as well as some of the first coloured photographs taken in Ghana. 

The cool interiors of the museum was a welcome relief from the external unrelenting heat. To fully investigate the full range of photographs on view, was an exercise in 3-D map reading, around the many differing floor levels and myriad corners and corridors of the rambling museum building, as some images were located in distant corners and recesses.