OPS Weekly Newsletter 11 May 2025
- Ten Best of the Year: Please start selecting your Ten Best of the Year (2024-25 season) that we will show on 20 May.
- Our Annual General Meeting takes place on 27 May. We need more members to help with the running of the club. Please do contact me if you have the time to help us keep the club running smoothly.
- Last week’s meeting Tues 6 May: Outdoor portraits with Brian Worsley and Matild Mati
We all assembled on the corner of Merton Street not far from the Mercure Oxford Eastgate Hotel and Brian introduced Mati and explained what we would be doing.
The light was still very good, and the enthusiastic posse of photographers began snapping away. Mati was an excellent model and posed very professionally. At times she was not sure who was shooting as so many of use were pointing our cameras at her from various angles.
As the light faded Brain set up a flash and soft box and the shooting continued. A very enjoyable evening using our cameras and you can see a couple of shots on Mati’s Instagram feed here.
- Next meeting 00, Tues 13 May: Print competition
Our judge will be Kathy Chandler
- Upcoming meetings
20 May: Ten Best of the Year
Slide show of all your/our ten best images of the year. Each member uploads their ten best of the season and together with everyone else’s are shown in a slide show
27 May: Annual General Meeting
- Events photographic in and around Oxford
Artweeks Oxfordshire
Lots of photographic exhibitions. See here: https://www.artweeks.org/festival/search?keys=&field_medium_value=photography&field_region_2025_value=All&field_dates_2025_value_1=All
Microsculpture Exhibition: The insect photography of Levon Biss
The stunning high magnification insect portraits by British photographer Levon Biss were first shown in the Microsculpture exhibition in this Museum in 2016. Since then, the show has toured to 44 cities in 22 countries around the world.
Free – no booking required
Oxford University Museum of Natural History,
Parks Road,
Oxford, OX1 3PW
3 April 2025 – 4 January 2026
https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/microsculpture?page-5255386=1
Travel Photographer of The Year Exhibition
Banbury Museum and Gallery
Spiceball Park Road
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 2PQ
29th March 2025 – 6th July 2025
Price: Adult: £5.00
Child: £2.50 (Ages 5-18. Under 5’s are free)
Concession: £3.00 (Over 65’s, students, Mill Member and unwaged)
Art Fund Member: £2.50
Photo Oxford Workshops
Join us for an exciting series of alternative photography workshops in March and April to explore the art of cyanotypes, anthotypes, phytograms, botanicograms, chemigrams, caffenol film development, pinhole cameras, photography as performance, and psychogeography.
https://www.photooxford.org/workshops
Bettina von Zwehl: The Flood
This exhibition will feature photographs by London-based artist, Bettina von Zwehl (b. 1971). Von Zwehl’s aim is to rekindle wonder and curiosity as critical tools for exploring new ideas and practices.
18 Oct 2024 – 11 May 2025
https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/ashmolean-now-bettina-von-zwehl
- General photographic interest
Why you should go on a photo walk to clear your mind
Head outdoors with your camera this Mental Health Awareness Week
The simplest solutions are often the best, so let nature and photography lift your spirit as you spend time outdoors. Photo printing company CEWE, in partnership with the National Trust, encourages people to spend time outside and capture their surroundings this Mental Health Awareness Week (12-18 May). Find time to slow down and enjoy a mindful photo walk in one of the picturesque National Trust locations.
Young men and their worst fears – photo essay
Photographer Jillian Edelstein’s long-term project addresses male mental health through a simple question ‘What is your worst fear?’
By Jillian Edelstein
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/11/young-men-and-their-worst-fears-photo-essay
‘Each shot feels like a private performance’: Rene Matić, the Turner shortlist’s only photographer
In a deeply personal show called Idols Lovers Mothers Friends, we see the artist’s inner circle – but there are delightful tangents, too, including figurines by the patron saint of mixed-race people
Nick Ut DID take ‘Napalm Girl’ says report, but maybe not on a Leica
Earlier this year we reported on allegations that Vietnamese photographer and long-time Leica user, Nick Ut, did not actually take ‘Napalm Girl,’ one of the most famous images to come out of the Vietnam war
https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo-news/nick-ut-did-take-napalm-girl-image-report/
The photographs edited 150 years before Photoshop
A photographer who pioneered techniques to create detailed images by combining multiple negatives is being celebrated 170 years after he set up his first studio.
