It’s always good to welcome fresh contributors. This added an extra zest to our June session.
Let’s begin by welcoming contributions by four presenters making their debut. Frank Lauriello and Andy Harrison provided very different views of our world. Frank’s images were of huge industrial power, concerning the heat and intensity during the process of making steel in Scunthorpe. In contrast, Andy took us out of doors at night, with pictures showing the solitude of Worcester City by night and views of the cosmic realm from the county.
David Sowerbutts informed us about the street life of Jaipur, where much of the teeming population live cheek-by-jowl in a kaleidoscope of colour and a cacophony of sound.
Our youngest ever contributor, Henry Leeson, who’s just 11 years old, presented a very competent and personal view about ‘Human Detritus’ in and around a derelict hotel in Lanzarote.
We all look forward to enjoying more images and visual stories from our new colleagues.
More regular members and ‘old hands’ presented their individual interpretations of the world and its curiosities. Dr. Charles Ashton compared scenes in two European cities, featuring many similarities of human interaction.
Gill Haynes and Richard Handley chose two very different ‘grand houses’ to reveal opulence, elegance and gardens created during the early to mid-20th century.
Entering the space of an abandoned motorway services area, Darren Leeson expected to find dereliction and debris but instead encountered a semi preserved environment where order is maintained. The theme of nostalgia continued through Bob Oakley’s series of Polaroid look-alike photos from a visit to the resort of Llandudno.
Clive Haynes elevated our viewpoint to the height of church steeples with his mini photo-essay about the variety weathercock design from an eye-level point of view. Bringing us back to ground level, Tessa Mills featured a telephone kiosk in Sidmouth repurposed as a miniature public art gallery.
Our two ‘outside sources’ provided yet more diversity and ways of seeing, firstly with ‘Archive 193: Abstract Photographs by Women’. Click upon the title as the link.
And secondly, the unique one-off visual treatment of ‘Polaroid lift’ to interpret and re-present the world as expressed by Laura Barth. In her work, one discovers a certain irony in the fact that images stemming from painful memories and events can transform into objects of serenity and beauty.
Here’s the link: ‘Mythos and Manna’
All members’ work from our session can be seen in our Viewpoint e-book for this month. Click on the image below or this link: Viewpoint and choose the June 2025 edition. The same link provides access to many previous issues of ‘Viewpoint’ - a fascinating treasure-trove waiting for you to explore!
The next CPG meeting will be on Thursday, 3rd July 2025.
We look forward to your input and company
Best wishes,
Tessa and Clive