Stills Democratic Camera Club

April Theme - ‘The Personal’

“To attempt to show our emotions, state of mind or psyche in photographs could appear to be futile, given the objective nature of the medium, …but as they govern much of our behaviour and continuously affect our lives, they can hardly be ignored.”
- Paul Hill, Approaching Photography

The next ‘Camera Club’ is Thursday 7th April, at 6.30 and the brief is to create a single stand-alone image or a series of photographs, (in colour or black & white and presented in printed format,) which looks at how the camera is (or isn’t) capable of recording the personal state-of-mind of the photographer.

This could try to capture emotions through self-portraiture or the closeness/reflection of family and friends. It could look at personal symbolism expressed by inanimate objects, anonymous strangers or by employing a sitter’s expressions to represent our own. Or perhaps landscapes could offer a contemplative or even violent metaphor of our inner self?

Inspiration might include: Sophie Calle, Francesca Woodman, Jo Spence, Sally Mann, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus - not that it’s exclusively the preserve of women… Paul Hill, David Williams, Thomas Joshua Cooper.

Speaker was: Paul Hill 

with crit support from Steve McLeod