Thursday 15th June sees the visit of one of our feature speakers for 2017:- Viveca Koh FRPS – ‘From iPhoneography to Fellowship’.

Viveca is a self-taught Fine Art photographer, with a special fascination for small details, lost, abandoned, poignant and generally broken objects and also for darkness contrasting with light, both in a physical and emotional sense.

Many of her illustrative images simply evolve as she works on them. She begins with quite straightforward ideas of what she wants to achieve but is always willing to venture wherever the photograph wants her to go. She overlays multiple images or adds textures. Scans documents as new layers and uses subtle shading.

This approach leads her to produce a final image that is a little bit different, one that invokes emotion in the viewer and makes them question their sense of the world as they know it. In June 2014 she was awarded a Fellowship Distinction by the Royal Photographic Society, following on from an Associateship Distinction in June 2011 and a Licentiateship Distinction in 2010.

In this particular talk Viveca will discuss her use of an iPhone to take photographs, leading up to the separate challenge of attaining her Fellowship using illustrations from a book of poetry and prose entitled ‘Star Blossom’ using the written words as inspiration.

Full details of Viveca’s lecture can be found here.

On the 15^th July Gwynfa will once again be representing the WPF alongside Inn Focus and Tenby at the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick.

This is an extremely well organised event providing a showcase of the best work from the 38 qualifying clubs from across the UK.

It’s held in the 550-seat tiered theatre within the Arts Centre complex of Warwick University. There are bar and catering facilities within the building and ample free car parking. Admission is by prepaid ticket only at £10.00 each.

Full details and ticket application form can be found on the PAGB website.  You can download a ticket application here.

Contact Rob Beynon or any other committee member if you have any questions.  This is a brilliant day out and we guarantee you’ll see some amazing and inspirational photography.

The Barrian Cup Club Competition 2017 is for the best panel of 5 prints & the Dave Cowdrey Trophy for the best individual Landscape or Seascape print in the competition at the St. Francis Millennium Hall, Porth y Castell, Barry, CF62 6NX on Saturday 10th June, 2017 commencing at 2.00pm. As usual Gwynfa will be entering.