YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire NewsMarch 2016Newsletter for Photographers in the Yorkshire Region

in this issue Contacts - who’s who in Yorkshire: P.1 Note from your RO P.1 Canadian Chapter Journal P.1 Jack Bunn LRPS P.1 Got any news? P.2 HIVE - Harrogate Art Expo P.2 RPS Exhibition at Barnsley Civic P.3 Martin Parr at the HEPWORTH P.3 International Photobook Exhibition P.3 New members and successes P.4 What not to miss in Yorkshire P.4 LE TOUR - PHOTO REQUEST P.4

Yorkshire Region contactsRegional Organiser: Mary P Crowther ARPS E: photobox50@gmail.com T: 07921 237962

Regional Treasurer: Robert Helliwell ARPS E: bobhelliwell@clara.co.uk T: 07802 413570

Newsletter Editor: Brian Crossland LRPS E: RPS.Yorkshire.News@gmail.com T: 07540 824112

Website (handing over): Chris Leak E: leak32@outlook.com

Martin Hilton (picking up the website role)

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Canadian Chapter TwinningLast year, the RPS Yorkshire Region twinned with the Canadian Chapter and if any of our members is willing and able to spare a little time developing the link between us, please get in touch. If anyone wishes to submit a Yorkshire article to their Journal, the Canadian Image Maker (CIM), I’m sure they’d welcome it.

Here are the links to their latest edition:Flip version: http://ozonezonebooks.com/CIM/Nov2015/ready/index.htmlPDF: http://ozonezonebooks.com/CIM/RPSCanadaCIM-Nov2015.pdfMobile edition: http://ozonezonebooks.com/CIM/Nov2015/ready/mobile/index.html#p=1

Notes from your RO…

For some the anticipation of a white winter is a photographers dream, for others it’s a nightmare, but our winter has’t been white - just very wet.

Although the publishers have now rectified their posting error, it was a shame that December 2015 Newsletter went astray. I do hope those who received the Central Region Newsletter enjoyed the change, but importantly also appreciate the work of our Regional Newsletter Editor, Brian, does in bringing something of interest to your door.

As the website shows, much is already planned for the first part of 2016 with events and Advisory Days, and the ever growing Café sessions. The relaxed social atmosphere of the Café sessions will now incorporate Self Help Groups, aimed at giving support for those who are preparing for an Advisory Day, again very informal, but focused on your work.

We still need a Regional Committee Secretary. If you or anyone you know of may like to be involved please contact me.

Mary

Jack Bunn LRPS

It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing away of Jack Bunn, after a short i l l n e s s . H e w i l l b e remembered as a friend to so many and for his dedication to duties as Competition Secre tary a t Wakef ie ld Camera Club.

Sincere condolences go to his wife Joan and family. Jack was a true gentleman, always kind & helpful, an all-round top man, he will be greatly missed by WCC members and all those who knew him.

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Email the Yorkshire Region Newsletter: RPS.YORKSHIRE.NEWS@GMAIL.COM

Got any news?

Many RPS members and other readers of this Newsletter, are also members of a range of Photographic Societies and Clubs, so why not use this Newsletter to share y o u r n e w s o f members’ activities and achievements, v i s i t s , h i s t o r y , p r o b l e m s , developments, etc. If we can squeeze it in, we will.

Got something i n t e r e s t i n g happening?

Please let us know and we’ll try to include it in a future Newsletter, or write your own report and email it in.

K n o w o f a n y p h o t o g r a p h y exhibitions near you?

Please let us have v e n u e s , d a t e s , websites, contact details, etc and we’ll try to visit and report back in the Newsletter.

Harrogate International Visual Arts Expo 2015 (HIVE)Royal Photographic Society Members of the Yorkshire Region were invited to exhibit their work at the Harrogate International Centre, Kings Road, Harrogate for the 21st and 22nd November weekend ArtExpo. Mary Crowther ARPS, Regional Organiser, had pulled together a small group of helpers to hang our exhibits.

After first checking that the hanging space was straight, the installation began, under Mary’s watchful eye. Exhibits by Nigel Tooby FRPS were given centre stage….

The image shown on the right was one exhibit submitted by Brian Crossland LRPS. The photograph of a Rolleicord twin lens reflex camera and light meter has been described by viewers as being very effectively illuminated to bring out all the detail. The secret to achieving such lighting for this award winning record shot was to place them on three white mount-card cutouts on the conservatory window sill out of direct sunlight. As usual, simple can be best.

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…and the exhibiting photographers and artists, along with a range of invited friends and guests, attended the ‘pre-view launch’ that evening.

Some of Nigel’s thought provoking work is currently on display at Fenton House, Bath.

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RPS Members’ Print BiennialOfficial Opening by Mary Crowther ARPS. The Civic, Barnsley.

The opening of the 2015 Members’ Biennial Exhibition, on display at The Civic in Barnsley from 21st November 2015 to 16th January 2016, was opened by the Regional Organiser, Mary Crowther, on Friday 27th November.Around two dozen members and visitors attended the opening, before viewing the 100 exhibits - chosen from around 3300 submitted images.

The Hepworth Wakefield is delighted to announce a new commission and major survey exhibition by British photographer Martin Parr.The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories opens to the public on 4 February 2016 - 12 June 2016 and will be the largest Martin Parr exhibition in the UK since his Barbican retrospective in 2002, comprising more than 300 photographs that span the past 40 years. 

Martin Parr: The Rhubarb Triangle and Other Stories

Something interesting is happening

The International

Photobook Exhibition

At The Impressions Gallery Bradford BD1 1SD

on 12th Nov 2016

10:30am to 4:30pm

Closing date for entries is 31st July 2016, from which a shortlist selection plus the winner, second and third-place photobooks will be displayed at this exhibition.

The FREE exhibition is

organised by the Yorkshire Region

and the Contemporary

Group on behalf of the RPS.

Keep up to date with details at www.rps.org

The Yorkshire Region continues to grow…

Welcome to our new members:

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS DATA WAS NOT AVAILABLE IN TIME - WILL INCLUDE IN NEXT NEWSLETTER

Congratulations on receiving your Distinction:

Andrew Green LRPSColin Welby LRPS

Jim Souper (ARPS Exemption)

What you should not miss - please check the venue and/or our the website before setting off

• Martin Parr: The Rhubarb Triangle and Other Stories - at The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield from 4th February to 12th June 2016.

• Advisory Day - Licentiate and Associate panels (Travel) - Sunday 6th March 2016. National Railway Museum, York.

• RAF Linton on Ouse photography day - 9th March, 10am - 2:30pm • Don Valley Festival - Photography Competition included - Sat 12th

& Sun 13th March 2016. Open competition - all levels. • Sheffield Photographic Society Exhibition - 11th to 17th April • Yorkshire AGM - NMM Bradford - Sunday 17th April 2016, 10:30am. • Tour de Yorkshire - Friday 29th April to Sunday 1st May • Cafe Session / self-help - Saturday 21st May 2016. VJ’s Art Bar, York. • Distinctions Advisory Day - Wakefield 18th June

The 37th Frame

The last bit, squeezed in at the end. When using 36 exposure films, it was expected that a Yorkshireman would manage to get at least one more frame out of the film.Page 4 of 4

Visit - letour.yorkshire.com - for the three 2016 routesThe development of this regional cycle race continues to ensure a range of spectacular photographic opportunities for all styles - from sport and photojournalism through to people studies. Full details can be obtained at the website letour.yorkshire.com including the three stages:

Friday 29th April - 185km from Beverley to SettleSaturday 30th April - 135.5km from Otley to Doncaster

Sunday 1st May - 198km from Middlesbrough to ScarboroughSo, if you needed a good excuse to get out there and take photographs of Giggleswick, Beverley Minster, Grassington, the liquorice capital of Pontefract, Conisbrough’s rebuilt castle, Doncaster Racecourse, Thirsk's Market Square, Whitby Abbey, Robin Hood’s Bay or Scarborough - and hundreds of other places along the route, get on your bike.At least one camera clubs or photographic society previously created very popular exhibitions of ‘le tour through our town’ using the photographs they had taken, standing along the route in their locality - so if you do the same, please let us know, send in samples, give us links to your images (some of which we could include in the ISSUU version) and let’s show everyone the quality of your photographs and our region, then everyone will see why we say ‘if it isn’t in Yorkshire, it’s not worth looking at’ - or was that because of the price of petrol?

Please send details of your events and/or images or links to them to RPS.Yorkshire.News@gmail.com

Newsletter now on ISSUUThe RPS has recently provided access to www.issuu.com (pronounced ‘issue’) to ensure an alternative method of getting the Newsletter out to members. As with the RPS Journal, many prefer a printed version, some like electronic copies. I do agree, though, that a few years worth of electronic Journals and Newsletters takes up very little space at home - but I don’t know of anyone who likes to take their tablet into the bath for a good soak and a read.Also available at www.issuu.com is a vast array of other publications, including many photographic journals and magazines. On the opening page, search for RPS Yorkshire Newsletter and it appears, with several other RPS newsletters from other regions and SIG Journals.As the Yorkshire Newsletter now appears to have settled down to a three monthly production, appearing early March, June, September and December we are still limited to 4 pages in print, due to the cost, but there is almost no limit to size and content of the electronic version through ISSUU, so why not take some photographs within our region to show to the rest of the world? A few may get squeezed into the print version, but many others can be included on-line. Any images we receive are accepted on the assumption that copyright and any other permissions have been granted.Images, details and stories to RPS.Yorkshire.News@gmail.com