NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library will feature an exhibit of photography by former Oxford resident, Emily Delamater, beginning Thursday, March 31.

The exhibit will be held in conjunction with a talk given by Scott Vlaun titled “Beyond the Snapshot: Using Photography to Tell a Story,” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31.

The exhibit and talk are part of the library’s adult programming series called “Memoir: Lives and Stories.”

Delamater said, “As the youngest of three sisters, I have become increasingly more interested in my sense of self, in relation to my siblings, the place we have grown up and the situations and identities associated with our childhood. More than anything, I have been interested in how a person’s ‘story’ is formulated and recreating those visual moments in our lives that serve to shape us.”

Delamater lives in Portland where she works as a wedding and portrait photographer in Maine and New England. She works with a focus on fine art and a love of narrative. Online galleries of her work may be viewed at www.emilydelamaterphotography.com.

Of the work to be exhibited, she said, “I have photographed myself and my two older sisters as children and as ourselves in the places and costume of our childhoods; the places of made up games, memories, and dreams. These images serve to me as partly a mind’s eye recollection and partly romanticized or deconstructed memories.”

The work is shot with a Roliflex twin lens camera with 120mm 160 ISO film and a canon 5d mark11.

The photographs will remain on view through June and may be seen whenever the library is open. For more information, call 743-5309, ext. 1, or stop by the information desk.