News
The biggest news I get to announce today is that I will be opening the Royal Photographic Society’s Annual General Meeting with a presentation on work in the Tarkine, Tasmania. The talk is called ‘The environmentalist, the educator and the artist.’ It feels like such an honor to bestowed such space.
Probably the worlds oldest photographic society that has been run continuously since its inception in 1852.
You do need to be a member to attend this closed part of the meeting, so unfortunately many of you won’t be able to see it. But for those of you who are members, I do hope you do. For more information you can see the event here https://rps.org/rpsinfocus
You will be reading more about the Royal Photographic Society in the future from me I am sure. But for the moment I will save that for another day.
I have been working on my personal website lately too. Something I seem to rework year after year. I have dumped photoshelter and gone back to squarespace. The big advantage is that I can add new work from my phone. I have gone to a visual navigation system that has endless scrolling and is run from a blog. This may not make much sense to most of you. But for me it means I can add small portfolios chronologically from the comfort of my phone, and just keep adding.
I have been heavily influenced by Chris Friel who’s website just goes on and on with work. He presents his work in daily series’s. Something I personally l have grown to love. I know this isn’t what we are supposed to do with our portfolios, is it? We are told to only have a small smattering of our best work. Not content to do as I am told, I really want my portfolio to have as much visual depth as I do. So I plan to add to it every few days. I will also put my nudes photographs behind a paywall, so that you can’t accidental bump into them. They will only be available to those that subscribe.
The website is no where near finished. But I am hoping it will be a site with depth that you will want to return to regularly. Well at least I have started it.
Lastly, I am pleased to tell you that ‘The Abstract Project’, an online workshop is nearly sold out. With only a couple of spots left I encourage you to get in before they are sold out. It is an inspiring and supportive place for you two work on a photographic project over three and a half months. We plan to inspire you with book and portfolio making. A few of the people enrolled are also working on their websites. It isn’t a technique driven course, but one where you work on your art and how it talks to other photographs to create that meaningful body of work.
https://www.lensschool.com/workshops-tours/the-abstract-project
A meaningful body of work.
Personally, I hope that is what I am left with at the end of my life. Well, lots of them. Len’s Journal, as you know, is all about meaningful bodies of work. Works that speak to each other in series.
Here is a little series of four, taken with my full spectrum camera in Leura during the Abstract Retreat earlier this year.
It is so much fun working in series. I do hope, if nothing else, to inspire you to wok in series.
Enjoy.
Photographs and text copyright © Len Metcalf 2021