The next PhotoBath meeting on Monday 14th May will focus upon short visual introductions by members regarding their ongoing work. This will be an opportunity to get to know individual members photography practise, to discuss and learn more about the diversity of Photography work within the group. Amongst other things, we will be discussing layout…
Local photographer Rabban has been photographing for many years. His distinctive, intuitive style can be both provocative and compelling. Rabban will be presenting and discussing a range of photography including his own work. He will be looking at issues of truth and honesty. This promises to be both an interesting and thought provoking evening http://www.rabbanphoto.com/about/
PhotoBath Presents: Benedict Brain – New Colour work Monday Mar 12th Benedict Brain is an award-winning journalist and practising photographer. He is currently the editor of Digital Camera, one of the UK’s best-selling photography magazines. He balances his ‘day job with a vibrant creative life as a photographer and has…
The Road Trip, the ultimate photographic adventure. We are probably all familiar with certain trips, resulting in classic phonebooks such as Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’. But did you know that you can trace the history of this genre almost back to the dawn of photography. And it’s not just an American idea. Jack Kerouac’s ‘On…
A talk and presentation by locally born Photojournalist Carlo Chinca. Monday October 9th, 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, York St, Bath BA1 1NG Carlo has worked as a Photojournalist all of his life and has worked and lived in a variety of places including London, Spain and New York. He has completed assignments for a number…
Longtime PhotoBath stalwart, Gabriel Stillwater drew the largest gathering ever to attend one of our regular monthly meetings. With extracts read by his wife Lynne, he talked about his major book project about the lives of fictional characters based on his archive of fascinating family photo albums which he has acquired over 40 years in…
At the April meeting PhotoBath members had a chance to try their hand at curating images for an imagined exhibition. This involved working in small groups, editing available photographs into a coherent exhibition structure. Available images had too be reduced in numbers by 50{74ab25842e4e307579e2ae34b7460f26550548bdb3238991fdebad45546554df} and themes, sequence etc. chosen. All of those participating were fully engaged and…
On Monday 14th March, our own Jon Leahy gave a presentation and led a discussion around popular forms of Street photography. Debate centred around the ethics of photography in public spaces and issues around democracy and access. A lively discussion ensued with lots of interesting and varied contributions from members with plenty of food for thought.…
Dutch photographer Eli Dijkers gave an hour long talk about his work and that of his photographer heroes: Moriyama, Akkerman, Gilden, Sobel, Parke and others, at a very well attended meeting held at the Friends Meeting House, York Street last Monday. https://www.facebook.com/EliDijkersPhotography/?fref=ts Eli’s work is part of the ‘Otherness’ exhibition at Lane House Arts until February…