List of Speakers

October 8^th 2024
Mat Davies
Advertising Portraiture – Behind the scenes on what goes on a typical advertising shoot and post production involved.

October 29^th 2024
John Bolloten
John is a professional photographer with projects such as bare knuckle fighting, northern grime and drill scene and Bradford Sunday football league.

November 26^th 2024
Harry Kingman
Harry will be showing images taken on a trip to the southern ocean and Antartica in 2023.

January 14^th 2025
Joe Houghton
Joe will demonstrate monochrome techniques using Lightroom and Silver Efex.
This will be on Zoom.

March 12^th 2024
Tracy Lund
Tracy is a wildlife photographer and will show images from Japan, Finland, Greece and other areas.

October 10^th 2023
Karen Thorburn
Karen is based in Scotland and covers various types of photography including landscapes, family and commercial.
She will be speaking to us by Zoom and we will show the Zoom call in the hall.

October 31^st 2023
Steve Proctor
Steve will be giving us his presenta􀀖on ‘Talk to Me’ describing his workflow for portrait photography.

November 28^th 2023
Tim Smith
Tim is a freelance photographer, writer and researcher based in Yorkshire. He will talk about how he combines his day to day work with long-term projects, which result in exhibitions in galleries, museums and other spaces.

January 16^th 2024
John Gill
John’s documentary photographs cover life and homelessness in the harsher parts of the UK.

February 13^th 2024
Simon Sugden
Simon’s images of abandoned buildings and the north of England have a dis􀀖nct look that captures the essence of many of the places near to Leeds.

March 12^th 2024
Nick Hellier
Nick is a young photographer just starting out in his career. His images cover a wide range of subjects with great humour and style.

September 6^th 2022
Peter Yeo – FRPS
Peter takes a wide variety of images, in colour and monochrome. He was a member of the LRPS assessment panel for several years and is still active with the RPS.

September 27^th 2022
David Garthwaite
David will be talking about how he creates his fine art black and white architectural images.

October 18^th 2022
Andrew Foley
Concept and Change. Andrew will talk about his thematic, portrait, landscape and documentary photography.

November 22^nd 2022
Tom Peck
Tom will look at the history of photographic portraiture from Victorian beginnings through to our modern selfie culture, giving us a challenging view of the subject.

January 10^th 2023
Ken Payne
Ken’s talk is on macro flower photography, concentrating on images taken at his home during lockdown.

January 31^st 2023
Jack Taylor
‘Searching for the artist within’. Jack’s talk is about his personal photographic journey, always looking for new ideas and trying to keep progressing.

February 21^st 2023
Leah Cole
Leah is an international travel and portraiture photographer. She has worked around the world, most recently in Latin America, but now has a studio in Leeds for her business.

March 14^th 2023
Erica Oram
Erica is well known throughout Yorkshire and nationally as an excellent judge and photographer. This is a great opportunity to see some of her inspiring images