Programme

Winter Programme 2025-2026

Event Information:

  • Tue
    21
    Oct
    2025

    Lighting and Flash Photography - Jonathan Sayer

    8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church

    A guide and practical session for flash photography from our resident expert, Jonathan.  Please bring a camera and memory card.

    On this evening, committee will be on hand to help anyone wanting advice for the up-coming monthly competitions.  If you are unsure of the rules, how to get the right sizing and format for PhotoEntry or have any other queries, there will be help available at this meeting.

Summer Events 2026

Coming Soon

Provisional Winter Programme 2026-2027

Event Information:

  • Tue
    16
    Mar
    2027

    Free Mines Coal Faces - Nick Hodgson

    8:00 pmSt Ives Free Church
    Nick Hodgson FRPS is a British documentary landscape photographer based in London. His talk, Free Mines Coal Faces, is about his documentary project on coal free mining in the Forest of Dean, which formed part of his Photography MA, his successful FRPS panel submission, an award-winning book and various exhibitions. Nick has also been a member of the RPS Distinctions Panel for the Applied and Documentary photography genres.

    In the first section of his talk, Nick discusses mining photography that he researched to inform him about his own approach to the project. He also explains what free mining is and how he published a book of his work (there should be a few copies still available to purchase at the talk). After the break he will go through a number of his images, how he shot them and the challenges he faced. He finishes by talking about postproduction and printing, showing physical examples from his F panel which the audience is also encouraged to look at throughout the evening.