Contemporary Group
As a companion to the other WCC ‘Thursday Groups’, this informal group meets every month throughout the year.
The Contemporary Group offers an exciting opportunity to step outside the boundaries of conventional ‘club photography’ to discover alternative and new-found freedoms of expression. By encouraging the attitude that pictures are ‘about something’ rather than ‘of something’, the group seeks to promote a wide range of opportunities for personal artistic development and expression through examples of the genre, constructive review of members’ work, discussion, interpretation and the option of participating in group themes and projects.
Taking our broad direction from the RPS Contemporary Group, we copy that ethos herewith: "Photography that explores the photographer’s personal view of contemporary society, environment, art or culture, usually through a themed body of work".
Meetings are usually held on the first Thursday in the month currently via Zoom
The group is run by
The group publishes a PDF book after each each monthly meeting - click here or on the image below to see all the recent editions since March 2021. Earlier books are listed lower down on this page.

Our November session embraced a wide range of genres for everyone to enjoy.

What another fascinating session we enjoyed this month with a variety of topics and styles.

Eclecticism and variety describe the content of our September get-together.

Summer months provide frequent fair-weather opportunities for our photography.

Just a glance at the front cover of ‘Viewpoint’ for June will confirm the eclectic range of topics we enjoyed this month.

Our May session once again showed how diverse subject matter can be represented with a contemporary viewpoint.


Once again it was good to appreciate a diverse range of subjects during our March session.

After our New Year break, our Contemporary Group got off to a cracking start for 2023.

Our final session of 2022 once again underscored how an eclectic variety of themes

Our November meeting provided a feast of ideas and interpretations.

Our October session once again celebrated diversity of both approach and content.
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