Presenting my talk at Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society
On 26th March 2013 I presented my talk ‘Urban Exploration to Fine Art: A Photographic Journey’ to the Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society in South East London, and for the first time since I have started presenting also took along my mounted ARPS panel to display as well. I realised that these pr[......]
My First Testimonial
Thanks to Sue Buller, Lecture Programme Secretary of the Kingston Camera Club, for this lovely and much appreciated letter.
Further information on this talk, plus a list of booked dates, can be view here.
Urban Exploration to Fine Art: a Photographic Journey – A Presentation for Photographic Societies & Camera Clubs
This presentation encompasses my photographic development over the past three years, which has progressed at a fairly rapid rate following an albeit slightly slower but life-long love and practise of photography.
I discovered Urban Exploration in 2009, and this led to a series of visits to ab[......]
Spring Has Sprung!
It has been such a beautiful day here in London, it really feels as if Spring is properly on the way, and whilst I passed some beautiful blossom and primulas when out today I didn’t have my camera with me. So to celebrate the coming of Spring, here’s a shot taken in Cornwall about a year ago, when[......]
Another Magazine Feature!
In December 2011 I was contacted by Steve Harnell, the Operations Editor at ‘Practical Photoshop’ magazine, after he saw one of my images ‘Communication’ on the Photoradar website, where I posted it ages ago and promptly forgot all about it. Steve wondered if I would like to feature on the Image Re[......]
I’m in ‘Digital Photographer’ Magazine!
This month I am very pleased to be featured in one of the national photography magazines – Digital Photographer, after I was contacted by photographer/freelance writer Dylan Baker who saw my piece in The Transmitter when he was here in Crystal Palace a year ago in order to interview someone else. H[......]
New Forest Haven
Mark and I went down to the caravan owned by him and his Mum at Sandy Balls for a one night getaway this previous weekend, and spent a lot of time happily absorbed in photography on both days. Saturday was bright and clear, very cold and with more snow still on the ground, Sunday was less cold but[......]
Royal Photographic Society – Digital Imaging Group – Projected Image Exhibition 2011
I am a member of two of the specialist groups within the Royal Photographic Society, the Visual Art Group and the Digital Imaging Group, and both of these have annual members exhibitions, so naturally I entered some images into both. I was pleased to have these two accepted for the DIG Projec[......]
Royal Photographic Society Visual Art Group Exhibition 2012
I have had an image accepted for the Royal Photographic Society Visual Art Group Exhibition 2012 - ‘Dreamscape’, which I had also submitted for the RPS International Projected Image Exhibition 2011 where it just failed by one point to make the grade. Now it will instead be seen in print at the exhi[......]
Article in RPS Visual Art Group Magazine
I was commissioned to write this article for the journal of one of the sub-groups of The Royal Photographic Society, the Visual Art Group, founded in 1921 “to foster the interest and advancement in all matters relating to Pictorial Photography”. These pages are reproduced with kind permission of th[......]
Flora
After struggling for some time to produce any new work that I considered remotely satisfactory, I decided to step away from my usual UrbEx subjects and try something completely different, to see if I could get some of my lost inspiration to return.
These are both two photographs combined, of Ca[......]
Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition 2011
After my success last year in getting my photograph ‘Beauty Ensnared’ accepted for the prestigious Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition, I have again entered four images into the General Digital category in the hope of getting one accepted for the show. The exhibition[......]
Viveca’s Garden
Spent some time relaxing in my garden today, after taking all these photographs for a multiplicity image (for technique, please see my tutorial post), which was slightly tricky in that (a) the wind was quite strong therefore rustling and moving all the foliage, and (b) the tripod was cramm[......]
Viva Viveca!
Delighted to be published in local magazine ‘The Transmitter’ here in Crystal Palace, after being contacted before Christmas by the Editor Andy Pontin via Twitter. He saw my Tweet relating to one of my Crystal Palace snow photographs making Explore on Flickr, and Tweeted me with “and a very nice pic[......]
Lost Asylum Sonnets
“a roller skate dreaming of escape … a piano’s broken grin … a wheelchair refusing its fate …
Lost Asylum Sonnets is a journey of documentary imagination into the abandoned world of insane asylums, and the lives once lived within them. Ten photographs by Viveca Koh and ten sonne[......]
Forthcoming Exhibition
I am very pleased to announce that I have had two photographs accepted for the Royal Photographic Society’s Visual Art Group exhibition, which will run from the 4th-29th January 2011 at Fairfield Hall, Park Lane, Croydon, Surrey. Members were invited to submit up to four photographs, and whilst I wo[......]
The Manor: A Photographic Record
An abandoned manor house, hidden away from the public gaze, still holds many secrets of the previous occupants. People who left so much behind, when they said goodbye to the house for the final time.
Here is a photographic journey into the heart of what was once someone’s home, an intimate port[......]
Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition 2010 UPDATE
I am very pleased to announce that my photograph “Beauty Ensnared” has been accepted for the General Digital category of Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition 2010.
The opening of the Exhibition and presentation of Awards will be hosted by The Society’s North Wales[......]
Gallery Celebrates Social Media’s Impact on Photography
Press Release from theprintspace:
Leading East London photographic gallery theprintspace will make the virtual a reality this September when it opens its doors for SoShowMe, an exhibition curated entirely from its social media interactions.
With the growing use of social media in our daily l[......]
Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition 2010
In an attempt to get my work more “out there”, I have entered the General Digital category of The Royal Photographic Society International Projected Image Exhibition 2010.
The theme running through these images is my developing (and some may say, disturbing) obsession with dead insects, moths and[......]
Word of Advice
Seen today in “Digital Photographer” magazine issue 98, in an article about photographer Patrice de Villiers. When asked for words of advice, she said:
“Combine naïve self-belief with grim determination, be prepared to make sacrifices to achieve your goal, maintain your own high standards and be[......]
Big Up JadedSnapper!
I first discovered JadedSnapper through Twitter, a self-described still youthful yet “curmudgeonly git” who is employed as the “third best” press photographer on the EveningSnooze. JS writes with a dry sense of humour and demonstrates endless reserves of sanguine patience, when faced with a succes[......]
Testimonials
Came across ‘clones’ in Wistmans Wood, Dartmoor; very striking, loved the flavour and the way you’d processed the light. Then explored your galleries and saw that you are producin[......]
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