The Big Man of "The Black Trinity"
Terence Donovan FRPS was the Big Man of the Black Trinity and a keen judoka. He collaborated with Kashiwazaki on Fighting Judo.
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RPS President Simon Hill HonFRPS
"The humanity of the moment"
Robert Frank's The Americans with an Introduction by Jack Kerouac is the iconic photo-documentary of post-war America.
"The efforts of the many"
Landscape and still life photographers owe a debt to French inventor, Jules Carpentier, and to Austrian army captain, Theodor Scheimpflug.
Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
Anna Atkins, the first woman photographer and the first photographer to use photography to illustrate a book.
Frank Forster Renwick HonFRPS (1877-1943)
Ilford Multigrade is a variable contrast black and white printing paper invented by F.F. Renwick HonFRPS, a Past President of the RPS.
"Practical competence and achievement"
RPS distinctions are one of the most widely recognised and respected photography qualifications throughout the world.
“What did the Greeks ever do for us?"
From Monty Python, via the Ancient Greeks and Soviet Russia, to the new RPS Strategy 2021-2026 "Photography for Everyone".
“The greatest propaganda machine in history”
The control of modern government and the propagandist power of social media find a 'connection' to Hitler’s Third Reich.
"... don’t take my Kodachrome away”
“Kodachrome is more than a film, it’s a pop culture icon,” said Todd Gustavson, curator at the George Eastman museum.
“Ma’am, what are you doing here?”
To coincide with International Women’s Day a celebration of the women journalists who covered the Vietnam war.
Mercie Lack ARPS and Barbara Wagstaff ARPS
A surprising connection between the Anglo-Saxons, two Associates of the RPS and the new Netflix feature film, The Dig.
"Photographers are thoroughbreds"
A link between our President's home town of Harrogate, Picture Post magazine, and the Hulton Getty picture library.
A new blogger on the block
Our new President, Simon Hill HonFRPS, shares his blogging ambitions in the first of this new series of President's News.