A PHOTOGRAPHER will sign copies of a new book of photos of Oxford.

Douglas Vernimmen will be at Waterstones in Broad Street on Saturday, November 18, from 2pm to 4pm, to sign copies of Oxford Through the Lens.

The foreword was written by Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter, who died earlier this year.

The hardback, price £25, is published by ACC Art Books and contains images of the floods of 2007, May Morning celebrations and other typical city scenes and traditions.

So many images, so many perspectives, captured here, in lucid photographic language: winter’s mornings, before the snow has started to melt; the river hosting one of the university’s most popular sports, as well as leisurely punting.The floods of summer 2007 when the river extended its reach. Dawn on May Morning, when crowds have gathered together on Magdalen Bridge to listen to the choristers singing from the top of Magdalen College tower before jumping into the River Cherwell from the bridge! The city celebrates with funfairs and spectacles. Douglas Vernimmen’s magnificent portfolio of photographs is his unique, early twenty-first century, pictorial interpretation of an extraordinary city.