OPS Weekly Newsletter 25 May 2025
- The Shelagh Roberts Award for best print in our annual exhibition was chosen by Paul Kilsby of Brookes University and awarded to John Boteler for his image Passing Stranger. Many congratulations to John.
- We need members to help us take the exhibition down at the Westgate Library this coming Wednesday 28 May at 10.00.
- 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 20 May: Ten Best of Year followed by members’ Show and Tell
We were treated to a slide show of an astonishing array of superb images from 20 odd members who put in their 10 Best of the Year. What an amazingly talented group of photographers you are.
This was followed by a ‘show and tell’ session where we enjoyed images for Jill, Dave M, Les, Pete W and Phil W.
- Next meeting 19.30, Tues 27 May: Annual General Meeting
AGM Agenda
- Apologies
- Declaration of any other business
- Minutes of last AGM
- Matters Arising
- Chairman’s Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- External Competition Secretary’s Report
- Programme Secretary’s Report
- Exhibition Secretary’s Report
- Internal Competition Results and Trophies
- Election of Officers
- Any other business
- Events photographic in and around Oxford
Reasons to be Cheerful: An exhibition of photographs showing moments of contentment and happiness.
Uwe has a new exhibition which runs until 21 June. It is at the Corridor Gallery at the John Radcliffe Hospital is situated along the Level 2 main entrance corridor.
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/artlink/exhibitions/corridor-gallery/
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
Discovering Jewish Country Houses: Photographs by Hélène Binet
Wed – Sun, 26 Mar – 22 Jun
11am – 4pm
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon,
Aylesbury,
HP18 0JH
Our exhibition for 2025 showcases a new body of work by one of the world’s leading photographers, Hélène Binet, capturing an extraordinary group of Jewish country houses.
The display of more than 20 works takes as its inspiration the new book Jewish Country Houses (edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green, Profile Books, 2024), which sheds new light on a previously overlooked category of country houses owned, renovated, and at times built by Jews and individuals of Jewish descent.
https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/discovering-jewish-country-houses-photographs-by-helene-binet/
…and further afield
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
See the world through a new lens. Experience the wonder of life on Earth through the world’s best wildlife photography. Our photography exhibition is back for its sixtieth year to reveal more of nature’s stories.
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
- General photographic interest
A Simple Idea That Can Guide Your Photography…
Several of my favourite photo books and projects from other photographers all share one common thread: they’re structured around following a clear line or path. And the more I think about it, the more I realise how impactful this simple approach can be when it comes to finding focus and direction.
In this video, I’ll dive into this approach, showcasing examples highlighting why it’s such an effective method for finding direction in your photography and how it provides focus while offering endless creative possibilities and room for flexibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5z8F97F20
Festival of Outdoor Photography countdown: don’t miss Tim Flach’s talk on wildlife portraiture
With just over a week to go to Amateur Photographer’s first-ever Festival of Outdoor Photography, we are profiling some of our key speakers from the four genres represented at the festival: wildlife, landscape, street and travel.
Sebastião Salgado obituary
One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of life
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/25/sebastiao-salgado-obituary
Down in the valleys: the wonders of Wales – in pictures
Ken Grant has photographed the south Wales valleys for three decades – capturing the rugged beauty, painful scars and wild ponies that make up the landscape
Sichuan snacks and a Napa harvest: World Food Photography awards – in pictures
From nearly 10,000 entries submitted from 70 countries, there were 48 UK photographers with finalist images, including winners of six of the competition’s 25 categories
