ONLINE TALKS

Jan Harris is lining up a stellar series of talks for us this year. These talks are one of the main benefits of your membership of the Creative Eye Group, so please take advantage of the education, entertainment, and enjoyment they bring.

Poetry And Photography

When : 3pm BST (UTC+1) on Saturday 22nd April

Price : Free for CEG members

£2 for RPS members

£4 for non-members

Tickets : events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L6a2rq

The P2 Collective , a collaboration of four poets and three photographers, explores a conversation between poetry and photography in which each artform inspires the other.

Poetry and photography. These two very different art forms have a lot in common, but can they converse with each other? Can photographers get inspiration from poetry and poets from photography? The answer, or course, is yes, but how does this work?

In the summer of 2019, a group of Chicago area photographers and poets met to discuss the idea of pursuing an ekphrastic conversation between poetry and photography, a conversation in which one artform inspires the other. For example, a photograph might inspire a poem, which in turn inspires another photograph, which then inspires another poem and so on.

The group named itself The P2 Collective, a collaboration of four poets and three photographers. The P2 Collective has held both online and inperson poetry readings in which accompanying photographic images have been displayed and has produced several poetry-photography videos. Their work was exhibited at the Perspective Gallery of Fine Art Photography in November 2021 and was summarized in their first catalogue of poems and images: “ Poetry and Photography ”. More recently, the readings with projected photographs have been presented in live in-person performances with musical accompaniment at various Chicago-area venues. The group has produced a second catalogue “ Collective Visions ” and is currently working towards a new program in the summer.

After a short introduction there will be a presentation in which poems from the P2 Collective will be read whilst the associated photographs that inspired, or were inspired by the poems, are projected. This will be followed by a round table discussion with the panellists from the P2 Collective, and participation from the audience.

Impressionist Landscape Photography

with Andy Gray

When: 3pm BST (UTC+1) on Saturday 24th June

Price: Free for CEG members

£2 for RPS members

£4 for non-members

Tickets: RPS Website

Andy Gray has unique style of landscape photography created with Intentional camera movement (ICM) techniques. He gets his inspiration to create his work from the old English master painters of the 19th century, along with the later impressionists. A huge influence and someone he actively tries to mimic in the form and colour scheme, is the 19th Century English master, JMW Turner.

While in the past Andy enjoyed making traditional landscape images of the local iconic views and more intimate landscape scenes, after a spell of loving making minimalist long exposures, usually monochromatic, he stumbled (literally) on intentional camera movement. It wasn’t long after this that he first saw the work of Valda Bailey who was just a short amount of time into developing her multiple exposure style and was captivated. So began Andy’s journey which has ended up with him all but abandoning the “reality” of photography.

He has never been afraid of carrying out seemingly excessive alteration to his captured images, which has probably been a large factor in the way his individual style of intentional camera movement photography has developed over the years.

Visit: andrewsgray.photography

Coming soon

Finally, I have exciting news that Linda Bembridge’s new talk, about developing projects will be on Saturday 7th October at 3.00pm (BST). I’ll give you more details when we have them.