Afzal Ansary enjoys travel, environmental portraiture and nature photography. He has had two solo photographic exhibitions, and has coordinated six exhibitions. In 2013 he was awarded Fenton Medal and Honorary Life Membership by the RPS. He is a Fellow of the RPS and has been awarded six Fellowships and two Honorary Fellowships. His images have been published worldwide and have been used by the Discovery Channel, BBC and Channel 4. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.

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Frederic Aranda is a self-taught portrait photographer born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1980. He is now based in London. Known for his colourful but pared-down style of portraiture and a specialty: group portraits, his portfolio includes acclaimed portraits of Prince Philip, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Cumming, Taiye Selasi. He has been the recipient of multiple awards and prizes. He holds a Fellowship to the RPS and was commissioned for its Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors exhibition (2021-2022).

The image shows the swans waiting in the wings during a performance of Swan Lake. It was taken in June 2018 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. With kind permission of the Royal Ballet.

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Valda Bailey is a freelance photographer living in Sussex. Her approach to photography is informed by her background in painting and her influences come as much from artists as photographers. She is drawn towards imaginative abstraction and the challenges that present themselves when moving beyond the act of solely replicating what is in front of the lens.

"The photographer, Robert Adams wrote 'For photographers, the ideal book of photographs would contain just pictures – no text at all'. A worthy sentiment indeed - I feel sure that the metaphors in this image are too obvious to need explaining. Unsurprisingly, it was the admirable tenacity of the lone tree that took my eye and how this contrasted so strongly with its fragile vulnerability."

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Ian Beesley is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed artist and photographer. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is held in the collections of the National Science and Media Museum, the RPS Collection, the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, and the National Museum of Labour, Helsinki, amongst many other important collections. He has published 25 books.

Ian is currently artist in residence for the Bradford Institute of Health Research/Born in Bradford, artist in residence for the University of Bristol’s School of Social & Community Medicine and artist in residence for Chetham’s Library, Manchester and Gallery Oldham. In 2012 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the RPS.

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John Blakemore is one of the greats of British document photography. He had his first solo show at the Coventry College of Art, and after receiving a 1974 grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain he concentrated on his landscapes in the north-west of Scotland, North Wales and Derbyshire. He then joined his friend Richard Sadler as a lecturer at Derby College of Art under Bill Gaskins. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the RPS in 1998. 

Although known for his black and white work, John has worked almost solely in colour since 2005, his areas of practice confined to the interior of the house and to his garden. He writes: “The image represents the interface between ‘inside and outside’ a window, it’s colour dependent on the seasonal colours of the garden.”

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Sian Bonnell is a UK-based artist, living and working in West Yorkshire. Her work is concerned with concepts surrounding photography and its relations with objects, environment and performance. Her work has been exhibited and published widely and is held in many public and corporate collections notably, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, the Ransom Center, Texas and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. 

Harry Borden is one of the UK’s finest portrait photographers and his work has been published widely. He’s received many accolades and been exhibited extensively including a 2005 solo show, Harry Borden on Business at the National Portrait Gallery. In January 2017, his book Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust (Cassell), from which this image of Toby Levy is taken, was published. Alain de Botton declared it, 'A masterpiece' and in 2018 it was judged one of the year’s 10 best photography books by the Kraszna-Krausz
Foundation. His second book, Single Dad, came out in 2021.

Richard Brayshaw MA, FRPS is particularly interested in our perception of spaces, their different characteristics and their psychological effects on us. He is deputy chair of the RPS contemporary distinctions panel and also a member of the SEDICI program. He was a founding member of 6plus2 art collective and a member of Espacio gallery from 2016 to 2020. His work is held in the collection of the University for the Creative Arts as well as in private collections.

Vanley Burke is often described as the ‘Godfather of Black British Photography’. His photographs have captured the evolving cultural landscape, social change, and stimulated debate in the UK over the past four decades. He draws strength from remaining a humble man of the community, whose personable character allows him to capture the intimate and private nature of people’s everyday lives.

His body of work represents possibly the largest photographic record of the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain, and as an avid collector, Vanley continues to connect histories through his substantial archive housed at the Library of Birmingham. From local community organisations to the V&A and Whitechapel, Vanley has exhibited as far afield as New York, South Africa and China.

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Will Cheung is a photographer and a photography magazine editor based in Cambourne, near Cambridge. He currently edits Photography News, a free newspaper available at photo retailers and sent to camera clubs, and previously edited Practical Photography, Digital Photo, Photography Monthly and Advanced Photographer. He is a Fellow of the RPS and and sits on the Travel distinctions panel. He regularly lectures to camera clubs around the UK.

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Edmund Clark is an artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material; whatever is conceptually and formally relevant to investigating the subject and communicating with an audience. Recurring themes include developing strategies for reconfiguring how subjects are seen and engaging with state censorship to explore unseen experiences, spaces and processes of control and incarceration in the ‘Global War on Terror’ and elsewhere.

His work is widely collected and he has exhibited widely. He is represented by Flowers Gallery.

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Paul Colley CB OBE FRPS makes photography count in the conservation of wildlife in woodland, rivers, lakes and oceans. He works with wildlife and habitat conservation agencies worldwide and is a winner of the British Wildlife Photography Awards. A former chairman of the British Society of Underwater Photographers, he pioneered ground-breaking techniques for river life and bat photography, securing his RPS Fellowship during the journey. He recently embarked on a photographic study of deep space.

"Ukraine Colours at Dawn is an expression of freedom and hope for Ukraine, whose wildlife volunteers rescued and set free bats during a Russian attack".

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Joe Cornish has been a working photographer since 1980 and is now one of Britain's best known landscape photographers. Based in North Yorkshire, he has devoted the last three decades to landscape photography, especially in the north of England and Scotland. Joe is a renowned thinker on the role of photography, especially in environmentalism, and has written countless articles, many appearing in On Landscape, which he helped co-found.

Elizabeth Cowle is an Australian photographer, living in Singapore; she has travelled widely documenting people, their cultures and environments. Elizabeth was compelled to be part of the humanitarian aid for the fleeing Ukrainian refugees, spending 10 days in Poland documenting their plight, witnessing the heartache and despair of hundreds of women, children and the elderly, as they left loved ones and their country, bewildered by the unknown.

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Nick Després is a working photographer and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society since 1993. He is pleased to be able to support the Ukraine humanitarian appeal, from a personal perspective. His mother, who only recently died, was born in eastern Poland at the very start of WW2 and he considers it tragic to see such unstable times return to that part of Europe.

"This image shows star trails over a field of daffodils, the flowers are lit by a rising moon. Look closely in the bottom half of the sky, just right of centre and the International Space Station is visible as the straight line amongst the curve of the star trails. Appropriate colours for the Ukraine appeal made this an obvious choice of image." It was photographed from the island of Guernsey.

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Susan Derges spent six years working in Japan during the 1980s where she developed the camera-less photographic techniques for which she has become well known. A major body of work based on the 'River Taw' series was exhibited widely during the 1990s and was accompanied by various publications including the four-person survey show and publication Shadow Catchers at the V&A Museum, London in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Mortal Moon at the Greenwich Maritime Museum Queens Palace in 2019.

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Jillian Edelstein's work has appeared internationally in publications and exhibitions including at the National Portrait Gallery, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, and Dali International Photography Festival. Her commercial clients include Oxfam, Unicef, Save the Children Fund, and Comic Relief.

For this image she travelled to Badimong, Valley of the Ancestors on the Lesotho-South Africa border. In secret caves live hundreds of Sangomas – or shamans – come to train in healing, divination, and herbalism through psychic communication with ancestral spirits. It is an area the Sangoma believed that the voices of their Ancestors went silent during the Apartheid era.

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Maria Falconer is a professional photographer specialising in dance and physical theatre. She holds an MA in Photographic studies. Her work has been widely published and exhibited in the US, Ireland, East Asia, Europe and the UK. Her personal photographic projects explore the world around her, often dark, sometimes humourous, always inquisitive. Maria is an  experienced lecturer who also runs photography workshops with her partner Prof Paul Hill.

Sue Flood is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker, zoologist, adventure travel leader and public speaker. Her work takes her all over the world but she has a special passion for the wildlife and icy beauty of the Polar regions and is one of the very few women professional photographers who returns again and again to Earth’s harshest and most demanding environments.

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James Frost is a full-time General Practitioner. "I use photography as and escape from the stresses of the day job, either taking documentary images or more relaxing photos".

Hazel Frost is a working as a GP in the Scottish Borders. She has been photographing for many years, mainly in a more of a documentary type style from India or the Far East. This is an image taken in Yellowstone National Park just before lockdown. "During Covid 19 I have had benefit from the use of photography to appreciate light and form almost in a mindfulness type way".

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Brian Griffin grew up in the Black Country. He started working in a factory as a trainee draughtsman. After joining a local camera club he studied photography alongside contemporaries Daniel Meadows, Peter Fraser and Martin Parr, graduating in 1972. By the 1980s he moved in to corporate photography, and then music photography, where he photographed many of the best-known bands of the period. In 1989 to moved in to film before returning to still photography in the early 2000s. 

His work is held in the V&A Museum and elsewhere and he has exhibited and published internationally. 

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Nicki Gwynn-Jones' photographic journey began whilst living in Florida, where she loved to photograph the wildlife. Feeling the urge to immerse herself in a very different world, in 2016 she moved to Orkney, a land of huge skies, storm-lashed cliffs, a rich mythological past, and an abundance of visiting seabirds. She continues to develop her photographic practice with curiosity and joy. She was awarded an RPS Fellowship in Visual Art in 2012.

Originating in Buddhism, Mujo is a Japanese term meaning transience or impermanence, embodying traditional ideas about the interaction between life and nature. “I felt that these water lilies perfectly captured this idea, their precious, ephemeral beauty so short-lived.”

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Paul Hassell writes: “Living remotely in challenging conditions a Romanian shepherd tends to his flock of sheep in harsh conditions. Life is hard there with people living Very humbly and who are very proud of their traditions as working ways still”. This image is part of a series documenting rural Romania which formed part of his Fellowship portfolio.

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Simon Hill is a professional editorial photographer specialising in social documentary and cultural heritage projects.  His publication credits include National Geographic Magazine, The Observer Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. Simon is a former KODAK Professional Photographer of the Year, BIPP Professional Photographer of the Year, and was the first British winner of the Longford International Art Portrait Award. He gained his FRPS in 1991 and in January 2021 he was elected President of the Royal Photographic Society.

This photo shows children playing in the forest near the Truong Giang River, Hội An, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, 1997. "I chose this image because it pictures children, a metaphor for our future hopes. The location, Vietnam, affords some resonance with a previous war against the forces of communist expansionism and magnifies the metaphor as we reflect on so many young lives lost through war."

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Iñaki Hernández-Lasa was born in Bilbao. He received his Fellowship of the RPS in 2018 with a new body of work that displayed an innovative approach into the study of minimalism, shape and form in architectural photography. In 2013 he received a Fellowship of the Irish Photographic Federation for his work in this genre.

A highly respected speaker, Iñaki has photographed some of the most renowned buildings in the world, and currently sits as an assessor on the Visual Art panel.

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Paul Hill freelanced for The Guardian and The Observer before becoming leader of the influential Creative Photography course at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham in 1976. That year he set up The Photographers’ Place – the UK’s first residential photography workshop - in Derbyshire.

Author of Dialogue with Photography (with Thomas Cooper), Approaching Photography, White Peak Dark Peak and Corridor of Uncertainty, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1990 and, four years later, was awarded an MBE. He was professor of photography at De Montfort University, has two honorary doctorates, and received the RPS Education award in 2016.

What Colour is the Sun? is from a book and exhibition entitled Corridor of Uncertainty and was made in 2008 two years after the death of his wife, Angela.

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Jane Hilton is a photographer and filmmaker whose work brings to our attention the extraordinary realities of ordinary people's lives and is renowned for her work documenting American Culture, in particular the American West, which she has explored for the past twenty-five years. She is fascinated by subjects that are legal but not socially acceptable. Jane lives and works in London and has exhibited internationally. 

She started work on Drag Queen Cowboys in 2020 and the work was short-listed for the Sony World Photography Awards 2021. This series juxtaposes the romanticism of the West and its rugged cowboys, with its displacement of characters seen in the 1961 film The Misfits. film. It was shot on a 5x4 inch camera with black and white film, and no re-touching. She says: "It was a leap of faith".

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Tom Hunter is an artist using photography and film, living and working in East London. He is Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of East London. Tom has earned several awards during his career, including the Rose Award for Photography at the Royal Academy, London.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in major solo and group shows including: Life and Death in Hackney, National Gallery Washington D.C. USA; Seduced by Art, National Gallery, UK; A Palace for Us, Serpentine Gallery, UK; Another Story, Photography from the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published eight books including, Down The Lane (Cafe Royal Books 2020), Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Hartman Projects 2019), Le Crowbar (Here Press 2013) The Way Home (Hatje Cantz, 2012).

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David Hurn writes: “Life, as it unfolds in front of the camera, is full of so much complexity, wonder, and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as they are.". He has been a member of Magnum since 1967.

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Karen Knorr was born in Germany and grew up in San Juan Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She is Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts. Karen's photography explores cultural heritage and its ideological underpinnings. Questions concerning post colonialism and its relationship to aesthetics have permeated her photographic work since the 1980’s. Her acclaimed work India Song started in 2008 researched the stories and myths, photographing animals and placing them in temples and palaces across heritage sites in India.

She won the V International Photography Pilar Citoler Prize in 2011 and has been nominated for the Deutsche Börse in 2011 and 2012 and Prix Pictet in 2012 and 2018. Karen’s work is included in collections worldwide. She is Honorary Chair of the RPS's Women in Photography group, on the Steering Committee for Fast Forward Women in Photography, and an advocate for women in photography worldwide. 

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James Mann has been an professional automotive editorial car photographer and author for more than 30 years, shooting for magazines, industry and businesses all over the world.His work has appeared within and on the covers of more than 65 books including the award winning ‘Art of the Formula One Race Car’ and he wrote the practical guide How to Photograph cars in 2002 publishing a new edition in 2016. James became a Fellow of the RPS in 2017.

Lewis Hamilton’s 2008 F1 championship winning McLaren MP4/23 : Photographed in the studio on black for my book Art of the F1 Race Car.

Daniel Meadows is a photographer, documentarian and digital storyteller. He has spent a lifetime recording British society, working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings and short movies.

He is best known for his 1973-74 journey around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he travelled 10,000 miles in a converted double-decker and made 958 portraits in 'free studio' sessions on the streets of 22 different British towns and cities.

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Mark Power is a British photographer. He has published numerous books and is currently working on Good Morning, America (Volume Four) and a much-expanded reissue of his first book, The Shipping Forecast. He has been a full member of Magnum since 2007.

This image was made in the United States as Power works on volume four of his Good Morning, America project.  

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Roger Reynolds writes: "I have been fortunate as a photographer to travel extensively to many world locations. This includes more than 200 visits to the United States, allowing to me to explore many aspects of this great nation. In the last 25 years the majority of my work has been travel and wildlife photography, although I do undertake many other professional assignments. I particularly enjoy visiting the USA in the winter and have spent an extensive time photographing in the Greater Yellowstone area during that time of year.

This image is one of a series I have of red foxes, in this instance the fox was hunkered down between the snow drifts to protect it from the worst of the prevailing blizzard. Occasionally the fox would look up briefly with its eyes just appearing above the ridge of the drift."

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Simon Roberts is a contemporary photographer based in Brighton, UK. He has exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2010 he was commissioned as the official British Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee. He is the author of several monographs including Motherland (2007), We English (2009), Pierdom (2013) and Merrie Albion - Landscape Studies of a Small Island (2017).

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Max Robinson is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and chairs their Distinctions Panel for Film, Video and Multimedia. He is also a member of the RPS Distinctions Panel for Travel Photography. Max holds Fellowships in Travel, Film, and Landscapes. His work has been exhibited in Europe and Japan; he was a Hasselblad selected winner at Photo17 (Switzerland) a finalist in the Travel Photographer of the Year 2014 and the Food Photographer of the year in 2018 and 2019.

Tim Rudman is an internationally known fine art and landscape photographer and darkroom printer specialising in lith printing and chemical toning processes. His prints are held in permanent and private collections in many countries, including the Royal family and the RPS Permanent Collection, housed in the V&A Museum in London, UK.

He is a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the London Salon of Photography and a member of the Freestyle Advisory Board of Photographic Professionals in Hollywood, USA.

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Jem Southam was born in Bristol. He is one of the UK's leading photographers, renowned for his series of colour landscape photographs. His trademark is the patient observation of changes at a single location over many months or years. His work combines topographical observation with other references: personal, cultural, political, scientific, literary and psychological. Southam's working method combines the predetermined and the intuitive. Seen together, his series suggest the forging of pathways towards visual and intellectual resolution.

The picture is from a series 40 DAWNS, which consists of pictures made following the passage of a single Winter. It is part of a larger series called 'a bend in the river', which now consists of seven separate Winter studies, all made on a bend in the River Exe. A book of some of the work, called Four Winters, will shortly be published by Stanley Barker.

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Ray Spence is a retired lecturer in photography. He has had many exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Originally a microbiologist much of his work is centred on natural forms. An author of several books on photography he has used a wide range of techniques, but for the last eight years has been concentrating on the wet plate collodion process. Ray was also Chair of the RPS Distinctions board, has served on and chaired many RPS distinctions panels and was awarded the Society's Fenton Medal.

This original image is a wet plate collodion image on glass. The process is unique and dates from 1861.

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John Swannell is a leading British portrait photographer. After leaving school he worked first as an assistant at Vogue Studios and then assisted David Bailey for four years before setting up his own studio. He spent the next ten years travelling and working for magazines such as Vogue, Harpers & Queen, the Sunday Times and Tatler. During this time he developed his very distinctive, individual style in both fashion and beauty photography. He was awarded a RPS Honorary Fellowship in 1993. 

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Mitra Tabrizian is an Iranian-British artist and filmmaker. Her photographic work has been exhibited and published widely and is represented in major international museums and public collections. Solo museum shows include Tate Britain (2008). She has exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2015) and was awarded the Royal Academy’s Rose Award for Photography (2013).

Her critically acclaimed debut feature Gholam (2018) had a successful theatrical release in Uk. The film is now available on BFI player, and released on vod worldwide. She is currently developing her second feature The Far Mountains with BFI.

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Denis Thorpe has worked in photojournalism since 1948. He has many press awards for his picture essays and news photography. Denis has produced several books and exhibitions of his work. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography. In 1974 he joined the staff of the Guardian where he covered assignments across the British Isles, with special reports around the world during a 22-year career with the paper.

This photograph was used as the cover of his book On Home Ground (Lowry Books 2001).

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Hugh Turvey has been a contemporary pioneer of the X-ray art genre over 30 years. He has witnessed first-hand the advances of imaging and is uniquely positioned between the aesthetic photographic and radiographic worlds. His work has cultural, art historical and photographic reference points which bridge the divide between science and art. It appears in an extensive plethora of artistic collaborations and publications. Hugh is the first and permanent Artist in Residence for the British Institute of Radiology, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and recently delivered the annual Crookshank Lecture for the Royal College of Radiologists, endowed by the late Right Honourable Viscount Crookshank CH.

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Rosemary Wilman was President of the RPS from 2009-2011. She writes: "The bobcat was walking along the far bank of the Madison River hidden by the snow when her head appeared for a few seconds, before walking on. Good fortune provided a brief spell of sunshine and a clear patch of snow behind her. The snow looked so like a duvet that I wanted to include a significant area of the environment. It was a wonderful moment to observe."

Vanessa Winship is a British photographer who works on long term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. These personal projects have predominantly been in Eastern Europe but also the USA.

Her first retrospective exhibition was at Fundación Mapfre gallery in Madrid in 2014. Her first major UK solo exhibition is at Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2018. Her work has also been exhibited twice in the National Portrait Gallery in London and prominently at Rencontres d'Arles in France. She has won multiple awards including the HCB Award (the first woman to do so) and in 2018 became an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.

This image shows dancers rehearsing for a performance in honour of the legendary dancer Iliko Sukhishvili, founder of the Georgian state Ballet company, April 2004, Gori, Georgia.

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Tony Worobiec studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and spent 18 years as head of a large design faculty. He has won awards for photography in the UK and internationally, and has had work exhibited in London’s Barbican Gallery, The Fox Talbot Museum and Bradford’s National Museum of Photography. His work is in the permanent collections of The Royal Photographic Society and The Fox Talbot Museum. He is the author of 17 books; over 220,000 copies of his books have been sold worldwide and have been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Russian and rather fittingly Polish.

This image comes from Tony's recent publication Abandoned On The Plains; Fragments of An American Dream.

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Trevor Yerbury is a Scottish photographer who continues to run a long-established studio. He was honoured to accept Fellowship of the RPS, continuing in his grandfather’s footsteps. He is international speaker, teacher, assessor, judge in photography. He has appeared on TV and radio discussing my own work and the work of others and has been featured in many magazines both here in the UK and Internationally. His work has been exhibited in Edinburgh, London, Paris, Vancouver, Valetta and elsewhere. 

His two large format coffee table books, NUDES in 2017 and SILVER in 2019 have been widely acclaimed.

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