FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER

Someone pressed the shutter. Someone made choices about light and composition. Someone had a story worth telling. I sat alone, mesmerized, with the pictures piled up all around me on the floor, in what I now know to be the very beginning of my passionate love affair with photography. My life experiences have brought me to this place where I find myself overwhelmed with the drive to make photographs about who I am, what I feel inside, what I believe to be sacred and enduring. I am inspired by moments that hold contradictions… like a big lightning storm that is really uncomfortable and really beautiful at exactly the same time. Such duality is true for the very best things in life. Loving someone is uncomfortable and beautiful. Having children is uncomfortable and beautiful. Being an artist is uncomfortable and beautiful. I kept a journal for most of my youth, and this work is very much the same. It is a visual diary of my grown up, conflicted, complicated, rich, womanly, Mother Nature-loving life. And maybe someday if my children’s children find the drawer full of my photographs… they will spread them out and sit crisscross applesauce in the middle of it all and they will know me… as if I were right there with them.

Lori Vrba

www.lorivrba.com

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (Continued)

Rollright Visual Art Group

A day with Robert Harvey BA CEnv CSci MCIWEM ARPS EFIAP

1 June 2019

10:00 - 16:00

Village Hall, High Street, Long Compton, Warks, United Kingdom, CV36 5JS

Another day not to be missed: The Art of Landscape Photography. As a scientist, Robert knows how to combine painstaking preparation, deep knowledge and a light touch in his presentations to fascinating effect.

RPS/Non RPS Member £13.00, Ploughman’s Lunch £5.00

Event organiser: Andreas Klatt ARPS (rpsva@klatt.co.uk)

Visual Art Group

Autumn Weekend

27 September 2019 - 30 September 2019

Mercure Liverpool Atlantic Tower Hotel, Chapel Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom, L3 9AG

This autumn our residential weekend is set for Liverpool. Speakers so far will include Nat Coalson ARPS, Carol Emmas and Michael Pritchard FRPS. Our base will be the Atlantic Tower Hotel, opposite the Royal Liver Building and overlooking the historic waterfront. The city is a hot destination, and we’ll aim to do it justice. This event will become bookable in spring.

Event organiser: Andreas Klatt ARPS (visualart@rps.org)

Visual Art Group

2019 Members’ Print Exhibition

6 December – 21 December 2019

10:30 - 17:30

The Point, South Parade, Doncaster, United Kingdom, DN1 2DR

As part of our attempts to generate a higher public profile for our group, this display of the full Members’ Exhibition will visit a northern venue new to the Visual Art Group.

Event organiser: Janie Chapman LRPS (janie.chapman13@btinternet.com)

Future events

Further regular meetings of the Rollright Visual Art Group have been set for 31 August 2019, 2 November 2019, 22 February 2020, 16 May 2020 and 22 August 2020.

Visual Art Group Notice of AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the RPS Visual Art Group will be held at 21:00 on Friday 5 April 2019 at the De Vere Beaumont Estate, Burfield Road, Old Windsor, United Kingdom, SL4 2JJ. Relevant papers will be filed on the microsite in due course.

Postal And Email Portfolios

Get even better value from your membership of the Visual Art Group: join a circle. Email circles are free to join, while print circles will cost you no more than postage. Meet new people keen to share their experience, to ask questions and to comment on your photographs. Get a different angle on your work from people who are neither fellow club members, nor your family! Members range from new recruits to very experienced photographers, from people who just want to enjoy their photography with new friends, to people working towards distinctions. There are print and email circles and we’d welcome a few more members. Join a circle.

To join or ask for more information, just email Gill Dishart ARPS (Gill@dishart.plus.com)