About Us

I have been a volunteer in the RPS for nearly four years, mainly as working the web editor and running the group's competitions.  My passion for photography stems from my love of travel.  In the pre-digital 1980s, I took the Trans-Siberian Express from Russia to Beijing. I then made my way overland down to Hong Kong, where I eagerly walked along Nathan Road, darting in and out of its many camera shops, haggling for the best deal on an Olympus Trip 35.

I have organised and led three Photography expeditions to Iceland for a charity called Blesma, the limbless Veterans. The expeditions included two blind vets, and the aim was to ‘reframe their lives through a lens’. It was very challenging but a whole lot of fun!

Contact: wipchair@rps.org

Louise is a photographer who loves to shoot nearly all genres of photography, ranging from macro to landscapes, as well as portraits and animals. She enjoys the personal connection of portrait photography and represents that energy and passion in her work.    Louise also enjoys working on and experimenting with post-process manipulation of many of her images.

Louise has been lucky enough to live overseas for much of her adult life.  This has given her the opportunity to embrace many different cultures, languages and people. It has expanded her horizons and has enabled her to learn a lot about herself and her photography from some amazing people.

Contact: wipsecretary@rps.org

Rachel is a British-Canadian fine art photographer – and former journalist – based in Vancouver, Canada. 

Having lived and worked across continents and cultures, Rachel’s work explores issues such as a desire for connection with one’s heritage; secrecy; isolation; and memory.

Photography is Rachel’s “second act”. Previously she had a 20-year career as a digital journalist, editor and news executive in the UK, US and Canada for the BBC, CBC and Microsoft, amongst others. 

In 2019, Rachel graduated with honours from the VanArts professional photography program. Her work is exhibited internationally and has received accolades including four Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. 

Rachel loves to travel to new places and is passionate about many forms of art – music especially. She finds inspiration in the urban and natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, which she calls home.

Contact: wipmagazine@rps.org /www.rachelnixon.com

Her love of the environment is reflected in her practice, which comments on the beauty and plight of the natural world, as she aims to engage audiences in ways which will encourage the preservation of nature.

Contact: wipsocial@rps.org/www.victoriastokes.com

Chrissy likes uncertainty, people, new places, visual conundrums, bright sunlight and deep shadows. And spicy food. Her photography provides a visually intriguing and social reflection on the subject at hand.

When not making images, she writes books, curates the occasional exhibition and teaches infrequent, but popular courses in darkroom practice and in the application of alternative photography processes. She is a regular contributor to SilvergrainClassics magazine and has interviewed photographers from around the world. Some famous and some not so famous, but interesting and talented. This provided a great chance to challenge her visual vocabulary.

Chrissy Osborne is a writer, editor, and photographer. She is proudly trans and works with a number of LGBT groups.

Contact: wipexhibitions@rps.org

Photographic artist Julie Derbyshire’s constructed images are the final distillation of her creative process, encompassing acts of making, manipulation and disruption. Captured through the medium of photography, the objects and materials she chooses to engage with become more compelling than the original; transient moments of precariousness and suspense are held within the frame. Informed by the complexity and fragility of lived experience and inspired by art historical references, Julie invites the viewer to reflect upon the fusion of beauty and disquiet that her work conveys. And so to question what lies beyond the image. 

www.juliederbyshire.com

Irina Petrova Adamatzky is an internationally published and award-winning photographer and artist. She specialises in wildlife micro-photography and science fiction-inspired installations organically integrating living and artificial entities. A unique feature of her work is she mostly uses retro manual focus lenses to share the wonders of the world. She has won a substantial number of awards and prizes, including MUSE Photography Awards 2022 and 2021, BIFA 2021 and BIFA 2020, New York Photography Awards 2021, winner of FEP Awards 2021 Nature Golden Camera and ND Discovery of the Year in category Nature 2019. 

I am a documentary photographer (ARPS; MA Royal College of Art)  from the Dominican Republic. I also work as an economist (BA, MPA, MSc) on policy issues concerning human development and material and physical security. Some time ago, I turned to philosophy (PhD) to think about what fuels the underbelly of human intelligence and disposition. 

My latest projects give visibility to the work of social reproduction – whether in the raising of children, in social care or in the nursing profession – as essential to human wellbeing.