Simon Baxter: ‘Beyond the Trees’ Monday, 4th December 2023 – 7.00pm (via Zoom) For our final Zoom session this year we welcome ‘woodland photographer’ Simon Baxter, Simon is a professional photographer from North Yorkshire and “the first woodland photographer on YouTube”. His passion is to explore, discover, experience and photograph the less obvious intimate scenes that are close…
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Viewfinder Photographic Society Presents: “Rock Stars Don’t Smile”: Danny Clifford, Monday, 17th April 2023, 7:30pm – Parkway Cinema, Beverley
As a world-renowned Rock and Roll photographer, Danny Clifford has spent his illustrious career as a ‘fly on the wall’ to the most iconic musical artists of the last 40 years. From his big break, aged 20, as Bob Dylan’s official photographer in the late 1970s, through his close working relationships with Queen, The Who, The Rolling…
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Viewfinder PS: Reginald Van de Velde: ‘Memento Mori’, Monday 6th March 2023, 7.00pm via Zoom
Images: Reginald Van de Velde On Monday 6th March we welcome (via Zoom) award-winning Belgian photographer, Reginald Van de Velde. Reginald specialises in photographing unconventional architecture. He seeks out and captures ruins and abandoned places that take us on a journey through a world of dystopian dreamscapes. Reginald finds tranquility, beauty and wonder in the patina of dereliction and abstract patterns of forgotten grandeur. His…
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Viewfinder PS Presents: Damien Demolder: “Building A Street Picture”, Monday 30th January 2023, 7:00pm via Zoom
Damien Demolder is a photographer, journalist and educator. He has worked in the photographic publishing industry since 1997, including 15 years at the world’s only weekly photo magazine, Amateur Photographer, where he was editor. He is also a marketing and technology advisor for camera manufacturers, providing consultancy services for market development and brand positioning. Damien is…
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Viewfinder Photographic Society Presents: ‘Images from the Highlands’ by Alex Nail, Monday 21st November 2022 (7.00pm) via Zoom
Alex Nail is a full-time landscape photographer, particularly known for his mountain and wilderness images. He regularly travels to Iceland, Norway and Drakensberg, but it is the North-West Highlands of Scotland that draw him back time and again. These visits north of the border resulted in his highly acclaimed 2018 book ’Northwest’, which Joe Cornish described…
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Viewfinder PS: Chris Upton – “The Way I See It”, Monday 10th October 2022, 7:00pm by Zoom
Chris Upton is a professional photographer based in Nottinghamshire who specialises in travel, landscape and social documentary photography. Chris has received awards in national photographic competitions and has twice been commissioned to photograph in Thailand on behalf of the Tourism Authority of Thailand. His images are represented by several international stock agencies and clients have used them worldwide across…
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Viewfinder PS Exhibition and “Outstanding” book launch, 7th – 9th October 2022, Skidby Village Hall
The Viewfinder Photographic Society’s annual exhibition gets underway once again in October at Skidby Village Hall and is also the perfect venue for the launch of the club’s recently published book. Entitled ‘Outstanding’ and with a foreword written by former MP Alan Johnson, the book contains around 200 photographs that celebrate the natural and man-made…
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Viewfinder Photographic Society Presents: ‘A Year in East Anglia’ by Harry Wheeler-Brand, Monday 22nd November 2021, 7.00pm via Zoom
We’re looking forward to welcoming professional British landscape photographer, Harry Wheeler-Brand on Monday 22nd November for his Zoom presentation entitled; ‘A Year in East Anglia’. Harry has had a passion for photography and all things landscape from an early age, enabling him to achieve various milestones and awards in his career to date. This includes working with many of the photographic industry’s leading…
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Viewfinder PS: ‘Fine Art: A Workflow’ by David Garthwaite, Monday 1st November 2021, 7.00pm (Zoom)
We’re delighted to welcome Leeds-based, fine art photographer David Garthwaite on Monday 1st November for his Zoom presentation entitled; ‘Fine Art: A Workflow.’ Growing up in the industrial north of England shaped David’s artistic style, drawing him towards a bleaker and darker outlook of everyday locations. After starting in photography in 2017 he came across the work of Michael Kenna…
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Viewfinder Photographic Society Annual Exhibition, 8th -10th October 2021
The Viewfinder Photographic Society’s (VPS) annual exhibition gets underway once again inOctober in a newly refurbished Skidby Village Hall after the coronavirus pandemic forced thecancellation of the event back in 2020. David Marshall, VPS Chairman said: “We can’t wait to welcome visitors to our exhibition afterthe disappointment of having to cancel it last year. We’ve…
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Viewfinder Photographic Society Presents: ‘Dingle, My Only Place’ by John Hooton, Monday 19th April 2021, 7.00pm via Zoom
We’re delighted to welcome Irish landscape photographer, John Hooton on Monday, 19th April for his presentation entitled; ‘Dingle, My Only Place’. John has been taking photographs, primarily of the west coast of Ireland, for nearly 40 years. His main love is the Dingle Peninsula with its wide variety of rugged landscapes and roaring seas, offering perfect locations for both sunrise and sunset.…
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Viewfinder PS Presents: ‘The Fjords of Patagonia’ by Julian Elliott, Monday 29th March 2021, 7.00pm via Zoom
On Monday, 29th March you’re invited on a journey to the end of the world by following Julian Elliott on a commissioned trip to ‘The Fjords of Patagonia’. See the challenges a professional photographer faces with the weather and the imagery that’s created for use by his client. Julian has been a professional landscape and travel photographer for…
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Viewfinder Photographic Society – Amy Bateman: ‘My Life – Farming and Photography’ – 15th March 2021, 7:00pm
Note – previous date (1st March) was published incorrectly. Amy Bateman is a professional photographer living on her family’s farm just outside Kendal, in Cumbria. It’s at home where she loves to capture a ‘farming perspective’ of the changing seasons, landscapes and the animals and people who live/work there. Her presentation; ‘My Life – Farming and Photography‘ will cover the last four…
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