Hello and welcome to the Scottish Parliament podcast. My name is Kasha and I work at the communications team.

In this episode, we're going to explore the WordPress Photo Exhibition, which is currently on display at the Parliament for most of August.

I'm joined here today by Mariana Hettori from the WordPress Photo Foundation, who is the curator of the exhibition,

and who will tell us a little bit more about it. So hi, Mariana. Thank you for joining us today.

Thank you, Kasha. Very nice meeting you. Thanks for having me. Nice to meet you as well. Now, before we go into more detail about the exhibition itself, could you tell me a bit about yourself and your role at WordPress Photo?

Yeah, sure. So I'm Mariana Hetty. I work at WordPress Photo as an exhibition's manager and curator.

And I'm very glad to be here in Scotland to set up the one and only exhibition of WordPress

photo at UK right now. Fantastic. And is that your first time to Scotland?

No, actually I studied in Glasgow for a little bit.

Oh, no way, that's great.

The first time I come back to the UK since then.

Or is that your first time at the Scottish Parliament then?

Yes, first time at the Scottish Parliament.

I hope you're enjoying being here with us.

So I will preface my next question that, you know,

as someone who has seen the WordPress photo exhibition in person for the first time,

I think it's a really moving experience and it does change quite a lot if you're here in person

and get to experience these stories

by looking at the pictures, you know, going with the flow of the exhibition that you so carefully prepared.

But I would like to ask, you know, for those who can't make it to the Scottish Parliament,

could you briefly describe, you know, what the award press photo is? for those who can't make it to the Scottish Parliament.

Could you briefly describe what the award-press photo exhibition is?

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