Special Interest groups
Pizza & Co (Run by Paul Graber)
GPS’s Pizza & Co's SIG has been set up to encourage members to think about and develop their own personal photographic styles. It’s aimed at members who have achieved a reasonable degree of technical competence, and now want to use that foundation to create better images.
The Pizza&Co SIG hold critique evenings around 4 or 5 times per season. During the evening each of the members shows a couple of images for constructive criticism from the rest of the group. These are not competitions and there is no element of scoring the images presented, they are merely put forward for comment. Members of the group might show an image where they are unsure as to whether or not they have made the best of it, or they're not sure what merit it has. After all, assessing your own images is one of the hardest things to do. The other members of the group pass comment and may make suggestions as to how the image could be improved. In the past, amendments made to images following our critique have helped SIG members to score 10s in club competitions - but that is a side product of what we do.
Three or four times per year, the Pizza&Co SIG runs Gallery days. These normally involve a trip up to London, where there are almost always interesting exhibitions by prominent photographers to be found. Venues often visited include The Photographers Gallery, the outstanding private Huxley-Parlour gallery, Tate Modern, and the Natural History Museum - indeed wherever great photography can be seen. We typically visit three exhibitions on each Gallery day, and a pizza lunch is always one of the highlights of the trip. The opportunity to see, consider and discuss top-class work by leading names can be one of the most effective ways to improve your own photography.
We’re also thinking about adding a third string to Pizza&Co’s bow. Currently running favourite is an occasional group considering the production of photo books as a means of showing their photography. This will consider not just the pictures themselves, but issues such as text, layout, fonts etc etc. Books have the potential to be a more permanent and accessible means of displaying one’s photography.
It is not expected that our SIG members will necessarily be able to participate in all of our activities, and GPS members are welcome to dabble in as much or as little as they please.
To join the group, please send an email to Paul.
The Pizza&Co SIG hold critique evenings around 4 or 5 times per season. During the evening each of the members shows a couple of images for constructive criticism from the rest of the group. These are not competitions and there is no element of scoring the images presented, they are merely put forward for comment. Members of the group might show an image where they are unsure as to whether or not they have made the best of it, or they're not sure what merit it has. After all, assessing your own images is one of the hardest things to do. The other members of the group pass comment and may make suggestions as to how the image could be improved. In the past, amendments made to images following our critique have helped SIG members to score 10s in club competitions - but that is a side product of what we do.
Three or four times per year, the Pizza&Co SIG runs Gallery days. These normally involve a trip up to London, where there are almost always interesting exhibitions by prominent photographers to be found. Venues often visited include The Photographers Gallery, the outstanding private Huxley-Parlour gallery, Tate Modern, and the Natural History Museum - indeed wherever great photography can be seen. We typically visit three exhibitions on each Gallery day, and a pizza lunch is always one of the highlights of the trip. The opportunity to see, consider and discuss top-class work by leading names can be one of the most effective ways to improve your own photography.
We’re also thinking about adding a third string to Pizza&Co’s bow. Currently running favourite is an occasional group considering the production of photo books as a means of showing their photography. This will consider not just the pictures themselves, but issues such as text, layout, fonts etc etc. Books have the potential to be a more permanent and accessible means of displaying one’s photography.
It is not expected that our SIG members will necessarily be able to participate in all of our activities, and GPS members are welcome to dabble in as much or as little as they please.
To join the group, please send an email to Paul.