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.
Early spring encouraged CPG members to experiment with a wide range of approaches and styles as well as those offered by more conventional methods.
Early spring can be the launchpad for new projects and ideas. Our March session showcased many sparkling sets and projects.
Each month brings yet another amazing meeting of the Contemporary Group.
A really full house this month with outstanding presentations from 13 members and a most appreciative audience. Once again, diversity of topics was the key.
Phenomenal. isn’t a word to use lightly, yet it describes the November session of the Contemporary Photography Group.
Our October session provided another wonderful selection of work, rich in its variety of imagery and imagination.
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’.
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