Photographer Chris Mear writes:

'Disintegrating Histories' is the result of four years of photographing the county of Leicestershire, the county in which I grew up, a county infamous for: pork pies, stilton cheese, fox hunting, and not unlike many other parts of England, a long and proud coal mining heritage. My interest was to photograph a point in time that feels like the end of a significant transitional period in the region's history. With the people of the communities forged by coal mining now reaching their final years of life, alongside the development of thousands of trees which were planted throughout the region in 1991 as part of 'The National Forest', a very new social and geographic landscape is emerging and a new way of life is setting in. My motive was to describe this feeling of transition.

A opening event will be planned soon. If you would like to attend please email Penny Johnson at penny.johnson@leics.gov.uk.

We hope to see you there, but if not the exhibition is open until March 2013.