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.
Each Contemporary Group meeting brings its own particular delights, and September’s session provided a veritable basketful.
"Crackin!" as Wallace might say, this would be a brief yet accurate description of the session we enjoyed this month.
'Lively, brimming with ideas, good seeing and good company' is just a partial description of our meeting in July.
It’s always good to welcome fresh contributors. This added an extra zest to our June session.
Our April session provided a spectrum of topics and ‘contemporary seeing’.
Once again, the Contemporary Group showed a wide range of originality and thoughtful photography. Here’s how our March session unfolded….
After a break in January, our February session contained many strands of expression to enjoy.
Our December meeting continued to embrace our distinctive, individualistic, approach to the genre of ‘contemporary photography’.
Running the CPG session from where Gill and Clive were on holiday at Porthmadog added a little extra spice to the proceedings.
October’s session of the Contemporary Photography Group opened yet another box of delights and of ways of seeing.
Our Contemporary sessions continue to be a constant source of wonder and delight.
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