Anne Cook's Glastonbury photos go on show to mark 35 years

A new exhibition of Glastonbury photographs by Anne Cook celebrates 35 years of the festival through the eyes of one devoted observer. Cook, who turns 90 next year, has spent three decades capturing the people, performances and eccentric moments that define the event.

Her method, as she describes it, is simple: "I lurk and stalk. I find a really super background and I'll lurk in front of it and then pounce on people as they walk past." She asks permission before taking each shot, a technique she says she is sharing "for nothing".

Cook first visited Glastonbury in the early 1990s, when the festival had already been running for two decades. Originally called the Pilton Pop Folk and Blues Festival, tickets in 1971 cost one pound and included free milk from the farm. The event has since grown to hold a capacity of 210,000 people, and Cook says she finds it an "anthropological experience" that she cannot resist.

She recalls the festival's earlier, more chaotic days: "People could get in over the wall or under the wall or through the wall. It was a bit dodgy. I liked the edginess." She also remembers first hearing Amy Winehouse: "I had no idea who she was. She suddenly sang that song of hers, Rehab, and I just became her everlasting fan."

The exhibition, titled "One Last Chance", offers a final moment in the spotlight for these images. But Cook is far from finished with Glastonbury. She plans to use a mobility scooter to get around the site, saying: "Something's always happening in those theatre fields, something ridiculous, and you think that is the most ridiculous thing. It's absolutely wonderful."

Her work captures the spontaneous fun and simple joy of listening to music in a field, a record of the festival's enduring appeal through the lens of a woman who has made it her life's passion.