A photographic celebration of Leicestershire’s sporting heroes has gone on display at the Highcross shopping centre.
The Back Page Exhibition, which was launched yesterday, features 24 images taken by the Mercury’s photographers.
Among the sports stars admiring their pictures at the launch were boxer Rendall Munroe, Ismail Saleh, of Leicester’s CKI School of Martial Arts, discus thrower Eden Francis and triple jumper Laura Samuels.
Super-bantamweight Rendall loved his photo so much he is going to put a print of it on his living room wall. “It was taken just before a fight so the pose is completely natural,” he said.
Eden posed for her picture on a cold and wet December night last year at Saffron Lane athletics stadium, in Leicester. “It took a few attempts to get the picture because the disc moves so fast,” she said. “I think the exhibition is really cool.”
The exhibition has been organised by Mercury photographer Mike Sewell.
He said: “To be here in the Highcross and to know thousands of people are going to see The Back Page is just incredible.”
The exhibition will be at Highcross for a month.