Scotland

Bella Kotak is a fine art, fashion and portrait photographer living and working in between the US and the UK. An art lover from a young age she always knew that she would work within the creative industry.

Inspired by fairytales and nature, Bella's storytelling pictures lift the veil of the overlooked and reminds us that there's magic in the most ordinary of spaces and beauty in every face.

In another of you RPS Scotland talks, we present David Collyer FRPS a South Wales based photographer.

As a documentary photographer who works predominantly on long term projects, he returned to shooting film a few years ago, preferring a sixty-year-old Leica and the anticipation of what he’s captured, to the certainty of over-shooting with a modern digital camera.

His work has been published internationally, and has appeared in magazines and newspapers, as well as the book All in a Day’s Work, documenting hospital staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. His photo of a shattered theatre practitioner appeared on the front page of a national newspaper and was one of a top magazine’s photos of the year in 2020.
He is currently working on a further two books, and is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, as well as being named Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021.

A fun competition for Scottish RPS members who can choose their favourite from submitted images each month.

Scottish Members' 2023 Print Selection. All present are involved in selecting the forty images that will tour the region to represent the current work of our members. Why not bring four mounted prints for possible selection. In the morning the prints will be reduce to half by discussion and after lunch these will be voted by all present to select the final forty. The only rules are that they need to be your own work, mounted in 40x50cm mounts, and named/titles on the back of the mount.