RPS Yorkshire Newsletter - July 2008

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Gus Wylie was born in Lowestoft in 1935, but he spent a considerable part of his childhood in rural Scotland. He studied fine art at the painting school of the Royal College of Art, but has also taken numerous film and photography courses. Whilst studying for his Masters degree in photography, he travelled across the United States using the famous Greyhound busses, taking a series of colour photographs of rockers and bikers.

Gus was a Professor of Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has also taught in Florence and at the Royal College of Art. Acclaimed as a leading exponent of monochrome photography, Gus Wylie’s photography books on the Hebrides have earned him the accolade of ‘best modern photographer of the Western Isles’. He recently exhibited his Hebridean photographs in Stornoway and was deeply moved by the warmth of the reception there. In 2006 Gus was made an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society. He is currently the course director of the postgraduate Masters course in fashion and photography at the University of the Arts in London.

Gus will give two presentations, one in colour (Rockers & Bikers)  one in monochrome (Western Isles).

Ian Beesley was born in Bradford in 1954 and after an incident involving Potassium Permanganate at Hanson Boys Grammar School swimming gala in 1971 he was invited by the headmaster to seek employment. He failed the physical to become an apprentice gravedigger and consequently ended up as a labourer on the local sewage works. Here he was quickly promoted to boiler cleaner and then roadrunner for the railway gang. His workmates, realising his artistic ambitions, encouraged him to pursue a career and he left in 1973 to go to Bradford Art College and then onto Bournemouth & Poole College of Art 1974-77. Ian graduated with a double distinction in editorial and documentary photography and was the recipient of a Kodak Scholarship for Social Documentation.
He has worked as a freelance documentary photographer ever since. His work is exhibited regularly both here and abroad. Portfolios of his work are held in the collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, The National Media Museum, The National Museum of Coal Mining, The National Museum of Labour History, The Imperial War Museum and the collections of Bradford, Leeds, Oldham, Preston, Salford and Stockport Art Galleries.
Ian is Senior Lecturer for the MA in International Photojournalism, Documentary & Travel Photography at the University of Bolton.
Ian’s presentation:  The Ethnographic Photographer – Blood, sweat, toil & tears
Sunday, 26th October 2008    10.30 am to 4.30 pm
On Location Conference Suite, National Media Museum, Bradford

Tickets:  £8.00

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AV Weekend at the National Media Museum

Saturday, 22nd November 10.00 am
RPS AV Distinctions Panel
The AV Panel will assess Distinctions Applications for LRPS and ARPS

If you wish to seek advice on an application, contact the AV Distinctions Panel Chairman,
 Robert Albright FRPS, Robert@robertalbright.co.uk  or by phone on 01672 540754.

Contact for attending the day & submission advice on the day (time allowing after the applications):
Bryan Stubbs on 0113 2661448 or bryan@stubbsbm.freeserve.co.uk

Sunday 23rd November 10.00 am
Great Yorkshire AV Day

10.00 am Bring along sequences for constructive criticism

2.00 pm Jill K Bunting CPAGB and John Smith APAGB CPAGB will show their sequences and teach aspects of PTE 5 and the superb free sound editing program, ‘Audacity’

For more information and to book your place contact:
Bryan Stubbs on 0113 2661448 or bryan@stubbsbm.freeserve.co.uk

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Have a day out and don’t miss………..

Hebden Bridge Camera Club Print Exhibition 2008

Arts Festival Shop, New Oxford House, Albert Street, Hebden Bridge, 23 - 30 August, 11.00 am to 4.30 pm
An exhibition of work by members of the Hebden Bridge Camera Club

Distinctions Workshop

 RPS Panel members give both general and specific advice to anyone interested in submitting work for a Society Distinction. There will be an opportunity to view successful portfolios of work. The day will begin with an introduction to the RPS Distinctions. Each Panel member will give details of the requirements and assessment criteria for his Panel. Members of the audience will then show their work for comment.
Don’t miss this opportunity – get your portfolios ready now! Panel Members will be:

Licentiateship and A&F (Travel)   Leo Palmer FRPS
A&F (Visual Art)   Ann Miles FRPS
A&F (Nature)   Sandy Cleland FRPS

Tickets: £15.00 if bringing work, £10.00 for spectators
These Workshops are usually over-subscribed – book early!

Sunday, 16th November, at the National Media Museum, Bradford.  10.30 am to 4.30 pm

The National Media Museum caters for all disabilities.