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RPS Yorkshire Region
Welcome to God’s Own Country.
We’re a region of breathtaking diversity and the largest county in the UK. Read on to discover what we do, how to contact us, and see our news and events.
Our region includes the high hills and glacial valleys of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Its beautiful and rugged coastline stretches from the Humber Estuary to the Tees. We also have vibrant and exciting cities and towns. There are many historic sites and places including rivers, waterfalls and canals. Photographic opportunities abound!
We aim to provide and coordinate opportunities for photographers of all abilities and levels to enjoy their hobby, share, learn and develop skills in positive, supportive and enjoyable environments. Activities include:
- Arranging occasional events for members to obtain preliminary advice before submission to an RPS Advisory Day.
- Arranging and supporting formal Advisory Days in association with RPS Headquarters.
- Facilitating visits to areas of photographic interest along with a knowledgeable leader.
- Arranging occasional Zoom lectures, which provides an opportunity to hear from photographers working in Yorkshire. Members who have obtained distinctions may be invited to discuss their successful portfolios.
- Publicising the meetings in the Region that are organised by the Special Interest Groups.
- Publishing regular newsletters.
- Establishing ‘meet the Committee meetings’ on Zoom six times a year. One or more of your Committee members will be available to discuss any Regional issues that members wish to raise.
Our new Facebook page is now live. Head on over and join in the discussions or take part in a new quarterly photo theme. The old page will be taken down at the end of January.
GET IN TOUCH
See the committee page for contact emails for RPS Yorkshire Committee members. For general enquiries:
Latest News
RPS Yorkshire Celebrates Bradford 2025 - Open Call
Let’s celebrate Bradford through the lens of its vibrant community. RPS Yorkshire wants to capture the heart of the city, its people, places, and rich history through photography. Whether it’s an old photograph or a mobile snapshot of today, share your moments with us! Tag your photos on Instagram using #RPSThisIsBradford or email your photo submission to yorkshirecomms@rps.org for your work to be featured and join in the celebration of Bradford’s past, present, and future!
Follow @rpsthisisbradford on Instagram www.instagram.com/rpsthisisbradford/
Committee and Contacts
GET IN TOUCH
See the committee page for contact emails for RPS Yorkshire Committee members. For general enquiries:
Events to book now
Yorkshire Region - Leeds Photo Forum
Visiting Photo North in April? What not book into our Photo Forum for some informal advice on preparing for distinctions. For full details and tickets click on the link below.
Historical Group visit to the John Rylands Library
Join the RPS Historical Group on this visit to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Special Collections Curator Anne Anderton will show and discuss recent acquisitions relating to the celebrated photographer and RPS Fellow, A L Coburn. The viewing and talk will start at 1100.
Anne Anderton is Special Collections Curator (Western Manuscripts & Visual Collections) at The University of Manchester John Rylands Library and research institute. Her professional career spans more than twenty years in both Public and Academic libraries..
Image: A L Coburn. Miss Coburn. Courtesy: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Apollo Remastered - Andy Saunders
The Royal Photographic Society and National Science and Media Museum are pleased to present the RPS biennial Hurter and Driffield Memorial Lecture which will be given by Andy Saunders, the recipient of the RPS Award for Scientific Imaging 2023 for a special presentation to discuss his work restoring original NASA images.
Saturday 10 May 2025 at the National Media Museum, Bradford
Follow the link for more information and to get your discount code.
The Talk-Walk-Talk team are in the process of recruiting walk leaders. The aim is to have as wide a spread of walks around the UK as possible.
The recommendation is that no one walk leader leads more than 2 walks and that locations are within 25 miles of their home. Walk Leaders names and emails would be useful please.
If you are interested please send your name and e-mail address to Ed Bylina; preferably by the end of December 2024.
We hope that you will join in with this project as feedback from members is very positive and they really love to engage in physical walks of this nature and meet up with fellow members.
In the gallery
2024 Photo Walk - Manchester
Manchester photo walk in July 2024, provided a variety of city backdrops, walks along the Rochdale canal and a visit to Castlefields Viaduct. Because this event was so popular we had to run a second one and both days proved successful with over 18 per day attending. Although we all walked together it is interesting to see the variety of shots and perspectives we each shared.
2024 Photo Walk Anglesey
n June 2024, a group of ten photographers took to the island of Anglesey in North Wales for a weekend of strolling and obviously some photography. We had regular meet points and always started and ended the day with coffee or a beverage of choice. Although Anglesey is not a very large area geographically it does boast all different types of photography, with beautiful landscapes, coastal and heritage walks.
2024 Photo Walks - YSP
Yorkshire Sculpture Park; The Autumn photo walk took place in October being the last in the year, autumn rarely disappoints, with lighting and warm colour hues. Again a very successful day with over 16 attending, and as we independently strolled around there would be some obvious photography of choice and a chance to see the latest sculptures in and around the landscape. Once again it is interesting to see the variety and different perspectives when we were all in the same location.
Contemporary North Showcase
Contemporary North meets in York and is a subgroup of the RPS Contemporary Group. Shared here is a link to their regular newsletters that showcase their members' work. Many of whom are also members of the RPS Yorkshire Region. Enjoy!
RPS Yorkshire 2023 Exhibition
Our 2023 online members exhibition is now live. Thank you to all who took the time to submit work. Please do browse a while and enjoy!
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