About Us

I am a passionate photographer and world traveller. I capture diverse landscapes and wildlife, from Antarctica’s penguins to remote natural wonders. As Chair of the Royal Photographic Society’s Women in Photography group, I actively support and promote female photographers.

My work with Blesma, The Limbless Veterans charity, reflects my commitment to using photography as a tool for empowerment. I have organised and led photographic trips, including expeditions to Iceland, giving Blesma’s limbless veterans the opportunity to explore and capture the world through photography.

Photography for me is more than just an art form—it’s a way to foster creativity, connection, and community, bringing people together through shared experiences and storytelling.

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

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

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.