You will be made welcome whatever your level of ability or experience
The Society was formed in July 1936 so our new season, is our 90th anniversary. To celebrate this milestone we are planning an exciting programme of events, including a special anniversary lecture in October. Information on the first few meetings is given below and more information can be found under the programme tab. If you want to learn more about what we do just look around this site, visit our social media pages or contact us directly. We meet on Wednesday evenings from September to May and we also run occasional technical workshops. Guests are always welcome to any of our events so if you are interested in photography come along and try us out.
23rd September – 1st Aggregate competition judged by Dave Tucker
A chance to see members new work. Our judge Dave Tucker is an old friend of Solihull and always good to hear his assessment of the images.
30th September – Talks by Members
Talks by members are always well received and we are grateful that those members involved can share some of their work with others. Tonight we will have two talks. John Hayes will give a talk on “My approach to producing panels”; and Bob Breach will give a presentation on “ Travels with Bob – an evening of AVs from around the world”
7th October – Special anniversary lecture: Tony Worobiec “ Abandoned America – Fragments of an American dream”
Tony is a celebrated fine art photographer who has won awards for photography in the UK and internationally, and has had work exhibited in London’s Barbican Gallery, The Independent Photographers Gallery, The Fox Talbot Museum and Bradford’s National Museum of Photography. His work is in the permanent collections of The Royal Photographic Society and The Fox Talbot Museum. Tony regularly writes articles for photographic magazines both here in the UK and America. He is the author of 16 books, the latest which “Photographing Landscape Whatever the Weather” was considered one of the ten best books published in 2016 by The RPS Journal. This special event celebrates the 90th anniversary season of the Society and will be for members and invited guests only.
