VIEW FROM THE RPS BENELUX CHAPTER ORGANISERS Carol Olerud ARPS and Didier Verriest ARPS

The Royal Photographic Society Benelux Chapter

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ARM-CHAIR TRAVEL In these difficult times I have made great use of the talks

organised by the RPS. I have seen photos from all over the world giving me a satisfying feeling of having been there myself. Arm-Chair travel I call it. Inspirational!

I have also had a lot of time to go through my own archive and I often find myself back in Australia, my homeland. Checking out all my great pics taken on my trips back. I’m longing for travel again as I’m sure many of you are too! I observed some Assessment Days for Print & Digital, see my impressions about it in the eJournal. Very educational for anyone wanting to go for a Distinction.

We in the Benelux Chapter are continuing with our regular Study Group Zoom Sessions. We have had a guest photo club ‘Rarekiek’ come and present photos after André Bergmans and I have given presentations of our work to them. Armando was jury for their annual club competition last year. Read the article and be inspired by their photography. We are happy that a few of the members from ‘Rarekiek’ are now also joining in with our Study Group Sessions. So you see, we are open for all who are interested in photography.

Fingers crossed we can get back to physical meet ups soon. We want to combine this with Zoom sessions so we still attract our members/guests from afar, like France, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and the UK.

Meanwhile Pelt is taking shape. We are filling our weekend of 18-19 September with a programme. Saturday for our members, we have our Print Exhibition to see and will have a Documentary Photography workshop. On Sunday we will be open to all Pelt visitors with several presentations and portfolio reviews. We look forward to meeting you all there! More info inside.

Our Theme of “Photographing in Times of Corona” will be looked at on our June 1st Study Group Zoom session. I’m very curious to the first results. We will publish them in the Winter edition.

Please enjoy this edition. Spread the link and feel free to contact us.

Carol Olerud ARPS and Didier Verriest ARPS