Memorial Lecture
A Memorial Lecture takes place in the autumn each year and is free to all N&EMPF club members as it is sponsored by 'The Dennis Shipman Bequest'.
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This year we shall be very pleased to welcome Tony Worobiec FRPS as guest speaker for our Memorial Lecture on Friday 13th October 2023, delivering his talk “The Water’s Edge; a celebration of the British Coast”—also the theme of his latest book (co-written with his wife Eva).
Although a PDI based talk, Tony shall also be bringing thirty prints with him.
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Author of numerous books, Tony studied fine art at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne and spent 18 years as head of a large design faculty in Dorset. He has won awards for photography and been exhibited in London’s Barbican Gallery, Bradford’s National Museum of Photography, The Menier Gallery, and The Fox Talbot Museum.
A passionate traveler, Tony has documented the depopulating areas of western Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and south-eastern Montana—culminating in the much celebrated book, “Ghosts in the Wilderness; Abandoned America”. The follow up, “Fragments of The American Dream“, reinvestigates the same area to see what has changed. Another project, “Icons of the Highway”, involved scouring the old American highways in search of the dwindling glamour of many of the independent diners, motels, hotels, and theaters that continue to survive.
His photographs have been used for book or album covers and have appeared in more than a hundred photographic magazines, both here in the UK and in America. He has also been invited to write articles for well respected photographic magazines including Black & White Photography, Digital Camera, Digital Photo, Photo Plus, Photo Techniques USA, Practical Photography, and Total Digital Photography—with several articles also published in the German magazine, Canon Foto.
A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Tony has work in their permanent collection, The Fox Talbot Museum, and in numerous corporate and private collections here in the UK, in Europe, Japan and in The States.
Tony is also a Panel member of both The Visual Arts Group and The Landscape Group.
A passionate traveler, Tony has documented the depopulating areas of western Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and south-eastern Montana—culminating in the much celebrated book, “Ghosts in the Wilderness; Abandoned America”. The follow up, “Fragments of The American Dream“, reinvestigates the same area to see what has changed. Another project, “Icons of the Highway”, involved scouring the old American highways in search of the dwindling glamour of many of the independent diners, motels, hotels, and theaters that continue to survive.
His photographs have been used for book or album covers and have appeared in more than a hundred photographic magazines, both here in the UK and in America. He has also been invited to write articles for well respected photographic magazines including Black & White Photography, Digital Camera, Digital Photo, Photo Plus, Photo Techniques USA, Practical Photography, and Total Digital Photography—with several articles also published in the German magazine, Canon Foto.
A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Tony has work in their permanent collection, The Fox Talbot Museum, and in numerous corporate and private collections here in the UK, in Europe, Japan and in The States.
Tony is also a Panel member of both The Visual Arts Group and The Landscape Group.
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Last year we were very pleased to welcome both Ann Greiner MPAGB and Rod Wheelans MPAGB, MFIAP, FRPS, FIPF, HonPAGB, HonSPF from Dumfries in Scotland as guest speakers for our Memorial Lecture held on Friday 14th October 2022.
We saw a great selection of superb prints covering their photography both abroad and here in the UK. Anne and Rod love to travel and really enjoy meeting new people, seeing how they live and taking wonderful portraits of them in their homes or at places of work. There was plenty of time during the break and after the lecture to view their prints up close. Between Anne and Rod, over five decades, they have had many thousands of acceptances and several hundred awards in national and international exhibitions. Nowadays, they tend to pick and choose the exhibitions they enter – usually the more difficult ones! |
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Although Rod is very involved in the organisation of events, he has never lost his love of photography. He makes a print every couple of days and is proud to work with the support of PermaJet.
Anne is a very active member of Dumfries Camera Club and her work has contributed significantly to their wide-ranging success in National and InterClub competitions. She is one of only a few people who have achieved the Credit, Distinction and Master award of the PAGB. Anne is a PAGB listed judge and has judged many international exhibitions. She is a member of the London Salon.
Rod has now retired as a successful professional photographer with a busy studio and was twice MPA Scottish Portrait Photographer of the Year. He joined the Dumfries Camera Club in 1983 and has served as their President three times. He has been a member of the SPF Executive for more than 25 years and has been SPF President. He joined the PAGB Executive in 1990 and served as President 2005–2007 and is now their Hon. Life Vice President. He organised and chaired the PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship from its inception in 1997 until 2016 and the PAGB GB Cup from its inception in 2008 to 2015 but he considers his most important contribution to be as non-voting Chairman of the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit.
Rod also produces the PAGB e-news and the SPF e-flash. He has previously been a member of the RPS Council and has served on the Associate and Fellowship Panels for Visual Art, Photo Travel and Professional & Applied. Rod is also a member of the London Salon.
Anne is a very active member of Dumfries Camera Club and her work has contributed significantly to their wide-ranging success in National and InterClub competitions. She is one of only a few people who have achieved the Credit, Distinction and Master award of the PAGB. Anne is a PAGB listed judge and has judged many international exhibitions. She is a member of the London Salon.
Rod has now retired as a successful professional photographer with a busy studio and was twice MPA Scottish Portrait Photographer of the Year. He joined the Dumfries Camera Club in 1983 and has served as their President three times. He has been a member of the SPF Executive for more than 25 years and has been SPF President. He joined the PAGB Executive in 1990 and served as President 2005–2007 and is now their Hon. Life Vice President. He organised and chaired the PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship from its inception in 1997 until 2016 and the PAGB GB Cup from its inception in 2008 to 2015 but he considers his most important contribution to be as non-voting Chairman of the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit.
Rod also produces the PAGB e-news and the SPF e-flash. He has previously been a member of the RPS Council and has served on the Associate and Fellowship Panels for Visual Art, Photo Travel and Professional & Applied. Rod is also a member of the London Salon.