Programme

2023 to September 2024

April 2024
Date Day Event Venue
4thThuMore...Talk
Paul Sanders		KCC
Paul has been a professional photographer since 1984beginning his career as a fashion and advertising photographer. He moved into newspapers finally becoming Picture Editor at the The Times in 2002. His photography company, Still, brings together his love for landscape phtoography and his personal experience of using photography for wellbeing, offering a new way to use photography to express yourself and explore the world.
9thTuePost Processing GroupZoom
10thWedTable Top GroupRaleigh Road
11thThuMore...Talk
Simon Ellingworth		KCC
Simon Ellingworth is a professional photographer and photography educator running photography tutorials and workshops through his business and through the Royal Photographic Society. His personal style covers many genres including street, people, portraits, landscape, monochrome and others. He has been a finalist in the iPhone Photography Awards, Professional Photographer of the Year, Mobile Photography Awards' and 'Sony World Photography Awards'. His workshops aim to challenge people’s thinking, change the way they see the world, and provide techniques to craft compelling images through a lens. You can see more of his work at www.flickr.com/people/simonellingworth
15thMonCreative Eyes GroupZoom
18thThuExhibition Opening Landmark Arts Centre
22ndMonCommittee MeetingKCC Meeting Room
23rdTuePictorial GroupZoom
25thThuPDI Analysis
Paul Hendley		KCC
28thSunExhibition ClosesLandmark Arts Centre
May 2024
Date Day Event Venue
2ndThuMore...Talk
Paul Waller		KCC
Paul Waller is President of Kingston Camera Club and this is part of our Society exchange programme. In this talk he will share how he gains access to the areas he photographs.
9thThuMembers evening KCC
14thTuePost Processing GroupZoom
15thWedTable Top GroupRaleigh Road
16thThuMore...Expressing Creative Vision
Linda Wevill		KCC
Linda is a highly creative photographer whose characteristic style is to achieve a soft painterly effect which captures the atmosphere and essence of a place. She has two Fellowships at the RPS, in 2013 and in 2022, both in the Visual Art Photography category. She also has an EFIAP Bronze distinction. Linda’s work is exhibited widely both within the UK and internationally, including at the Royal Albert Hall, the National Theatre, the Oxo Gallery and the Saatchi Gallery in London.
20thMonCreative Eyes GroupZoom
23rdThuMore...In Search of...
Bill Ward (Paying Evening £3)		KCC
Bill Ward is a well know and highly acclaimed TV and Theatre actor, but also a top UK photographer. He has won many awards and commendations, both nationally and internationally and he has been widely exhibited and awarded in numerous exhibitions and galleries. In the last two years he has been a judge for UK Landscape Photographer of the year. He is also a tour/workshop leader for Light and Land. He runs his own workshops around the country and has given talks for the RPS. His work is highly creative and on occasions includes techniques such as close up work, Intentional Camera Movement and multiple exposures.
28thTueMonochrome GroupZoom
30thThuPDI Analysis
Paul Parkinson		KCC
June 2024
Date Day Event Venue
6thThuOpen Print Trophy Review
Tim Morland		KCC
11thTuePost Processing GroupZoom
12thWedTable Top GroupRaleigh Road
13thThuMore...Talk
Leigh Preston FRPS EFIAP MPAGB		Zoom or KCC to be confirmed
Leigh Preston’s work covers travel, portraiture, street, documentary, urban, landscape and studio, His style of photography relies heavily on atmospherics, dramatic lighting and strong storylines. Much of it is taken either in isolated places or is of buildings and landscapes that are well past their ‘sell-by’ date. Much is in monochrome. Leigh holds two RPS Fellowships, one for pictorial images taken of the mill towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire and the other for Darkroom printing. He belongs to the ARENA group of photographers and is a member of The London Salon. Now semi-professional, his work involves teaching photography and running workshops in the UK. He also is as a tutor and lecturer for Permajet. See his work at www.leighpreston.co.uk.
17thMonCreative Eyes GroupZoom
18thTueAwards & Distinctions GroupZoom
20thThuPrint Analysis
Peter Merry		KCC
24thMonCommittee MeetingZoom
25thTuePictorial GroupZoom
27thThuAwards Dinner
September 2024
Date Day Event Venue
5thThuTalk
TBC
10thTuePost Processing GroupZoom
11thWedTable Top GroupRaleigh Road
12thThuTalk
TBC
16thMonCreative Eyes GroupZoom
19thThuMembers' Presentation
24thTueMonochrome GroupZoom
26thThuPDI Analysis
Alan Copeland		KCC
30thMonCommittee MeetingZoom

Venue Key

KCC - Kew Community Centre

Kew Community Centre, Upper Hall, The Avenue, Kew, Richmond, TW9 2AJ (Main Thursday meetings)

St Lukes

The Avenue, Kew, Richmond, TW9 2AJ (Specialist Group meetings, except Studio Groups).
It is suggested that attendees at these meetings congregate at the main entrance to St Lukes. All meetings to start at 8.00pm

SHS - Signal House Studio

Signal House, 127 Molesey Avenue, West Molesey, Surrey, KT8 2FF (Studio Portraiture Group meetings)

RRUC - Raleigh Road United Church

Raleigh Road, Richmond TW9 (Table Top Group meetings)

Landmark

Landmark Arts Centre, Ferry Lane, Teddington, TW11 9NN (Annual Exhibition)

VH - Vestry - Vestry Hall

RPLC, The Vestry Hall, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, TW9 1SA (Committee meetings and Open Evenings)

Note that KCC, Landmark and RPLC are accessible to wheelchair users.
Unless otherwise stated all meetings begin at 8:00 pm
(£) indicates there will be a small charge to be paid upon entry

Click here to view a map of these venues.