For our March meeting the group shared a diverse selection of recent work all, in their own way, celebrating this month’s theme, Spring.

Richard Baker showed a collection of photos taken over three evenings following a serendipitous view at a distance of the demolition works at Ealing Studios, where he saw the shadows of two excavators “as monsters fighting”. He returned with a camera and while it was not possible to reproduce the original image he was able to build a relationship with the team to take a variety of images that captured the energy and atmosphere of the night-time works.

Jonny Baker immersed us in the depths of a lost rainforest in Scotland and the heights of Snowdonia. 

We were taken to Mexico courtesy of Sarah Wilikie’s photographs from her recent trip and the vibrancy of colours was a tonic for the soul. 

Back in London Sean McDonnell showed some dusk and night pictures from the West End.

Robert Vaas then shared a powerful image he had created promoting a performance at Questors Theatre plus the video promo that accompanies it.

[All images above by Richard Baker]

[A lost rainforest on the isle of Seil, Scotland by Jonny Baker]

[From the Snowdon Horseshoe by Jonny Baker]

[Centro Historico, Oaxaca by Sarah Wilkie]

[Fallen bougainvillea, Oaxaca by Sarah Wilkie]

[Rarámuri woman at sunset, Copper Canyon by Sarah Wilkie]

[Both images above by Sean McDonnell]

[Find Me by Robert Vaas]

In conclusion we discussed recent shows we’d been to and Richard shared a guide he’d found at the Serpentine

The Deutsche Börse has just opened at the Photographers’ Gallery so the group discussed a trip there as the last time we visited was 2020 before the pandemic. It would also be an opportunity to see both Frankie MacAllister’s and Arun Misra’s books which are now on sale there.

We concluded by thinking about the topic for next month’s meeting, Zines and Book Publishing.