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 October meeting certainly dispelled any sense of the hastening year through a set of inspirational images from group members.
The fresh WCC season continued its fine start with a splendidly diverse selection of imagery from members at the September CPG meeting.
Despite the expected impact of holidays and summer weather upon members taking part in the August session, an enthusiastic crowd attended and participated.
About 25 members and a welcome visitor enjoyed the wide range of imagery, imagination presented. Here’s a flavour of what we enjoyed.
We're constantly surprised and delighted by the originality the work seen and the resourcefulness of members during our monthly CPG sessions.
Once again our CPG meeting sparkled with imagery, original ideas and many fascinating concepts as a focus for our photography.
The CPG session once again proved to be brimming with variety and interest.
Our first meeting of 2019 marked the beginning of our fifth year for the CPG and it proved to be as fascinating and diverse as usual.
The December meeting of the Contemporary Group was a very lively and most interesting session with wide range of work to enjoy.
Everyone considered our meeting in October to be something special: well judging by comments received and the buzz in the room, our November session was another cracker!
We've enjoyed many a splendid night of photography in this group but the October meeting was particularly outstanding.
The September meeting of the Contemporary Group proved once again to be a most enjoyable and fruitful session.
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