This first presentation encompasses my photographic development over the past decade, 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 abandoned mental asylums and hospitals, where I spent much time taking photographs and showing these online via the photo-sharing website Flickr.
It was here that I received much positive feedback and encouragement, and gradually developed my technique and post-processing style, which led to my submitting a panel of ten photographs to The Royal Photographic Society for a Licentiateship Distinction, which was attained in April 2010.
I began experimenting with texture overlays in my work and gradually developed a different style of photography, which in turn led to a collection of images based around what remains when people leave a building for the last time. This became my successful Associateship panel ‘Left Behind’ with the RPS in June 2011.
Since then my work has moved towards a very artistic and painterly style, which is why I now refer to what I do as Fine Art Photography. This presentation is not so much about attaining Distinctions from the RPS, although I do discuss the process during my talk, but more about how I have developed in terms of style and maturity of vision over the past three years. There will be plenty of photographs, tales of Urban Exploration and the attendant thrills and spills that are a part of this activity, and even something which may or may not be a ghost!
About Viveca Koh FRPS
I am a self-taught Fine Art photographer, and I see potential images everywhere around me, often things that many seem to miss or simply pass by. Abandoned buildings are a passion of mine, as are the details of places that attract my eye, the minutiae that collects in hidden corners, the small parts of bigger things that are fascinating in their own right. I enhance many of my photographs with texture layers and overlays, experimenting with digital double exposure, using old documents that I have collected to add a different dimension to the work in question.
In 2014 I was awarded a Fellowship Distinction by the Royal Photographic Society, and I am a member of the RPS Visual Art Group and Digital Imaging Group, previous Honorary Secretary of the former (2013-2018), and a Friend of the London Salon of Photography. I am an LRPS Panel Member, a part of the team involved in awarding the Licentiateship distinction.
I have exhibited in a number of venues, and all my photographs are sold as signed numbered Limited Edition Giclée prints on Hahnemühle German Etch 310gsm via my website www.vivecakohphotography.com
To Book
Viveca’s fee for this talk is £150.00, plus the full cost of fuel and mileage at 45p per mile (in line with current PAGB guidelines), to your Club/Photographic Society from her home in Addlestone, Surrey with overnight accommodation requested for travel above 70 miles.
The presentation will be presented on a laptop connected to your projector, contains 187 slides, most of these being photographs, and fits within a two hour time frame including a 10-15 minute tea break. Her APRS panel of 15 mounted prints will also be available for viewing if required.
For initial inquiry please email Viveca at viveca.koh@gmail.com or phone 07956 517 524
Testimonials
For this talk and for my work in general.
Other Talks – now booking
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‘The Joy of Seeing: Photography My Way’
Website: www.vivecakohphotography.com
Bookings
18th October 2012 – Richmond and Twickenham Photographic Society
15th November 2012 – Malden Camera Club
18th February 2013 – Kingston Camera Club
5th March 2013 – West Wickham Photographic Society
12th March 2013 – Old Coulsdon Camera Club
26th March 2013 – Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society
9th April 2013 – City of London & Cripplegate Photographic Society
29th April 2013 – Potters Bar & District Photographic Society
18th June 2013 – Northfields Camera Club
28th June 2013 – Selsdon Camera Club
5th September 2013 – East Grinstead Camera Club
9th September 2013 – Cambridge Camera Club
18th September 2013 – Bristol Photographic Society
20th September 2013 – Ashford Photographic Society
30th September 2013 – Guildford Photographic Society
3rd October 2013 – Enfield Camera Club
8th October 2013 – Marlow Camera Club
24th October 2013 – Smethwick Photographic Society
30th October 2013 – Cheam Camera Club
1st November 2013 – Saffron Walden Camera Club
14th November 2013 – Bromley Camera Club
18th November 2013 – South London Photographic Society
20th November 2013 – Beckenham Photographic Society
22nd November 2013 – Eastbourne Photographic Society
13th January 2014 – Reigate Photographic Society
21st January 2014 – Ashford Camera Club
27th January 2014 – Dorking Camera Club
3rd February 2014 – Shillington & District Camera Club
4th February 2014 – Stoke Poges Photographic Club
11th February 2014 – Woking Photographic Society
17th February 2014 – Princes Risborough Camera Club
24th February 2014 – Amersham Photographic Society
26th February 2014 – Godalming Camera Club
4th March 2014 – Southgate Photographic Society
25th March 2014 – Molesey Photographic Club
30th March 2014 – RPS Digital Imaging Group, Eastern Centre
8th April 2014 – Imagez Camera Club
17th April 2014 – Chertsey Camera Club
7th May 2014 – Windlesham & Camberley Camera Club
8th May 2014 – Farnborough Camera Club
14th May 2014 – Bracknell Camera Club
26th June 2014 – Great Notley Photography Club
2nd July 2014 – Muswell Hill Photographic Society
18th August 2014 – Stevenage Photographic Society
30th/31st August 2014 – Welsh Photographic Federation 42nd Convention
22nd September 2014 – Bexleyheath Photographic Society
25th September 2014 – Hailsham Photographic Society
29th September 2014 – Hemel Hempstead Photographic Society
30th September 2014 – Welwyn Garden City Photographic Club
6th October 2014 – Harrogate Photographic Society
9th October 2014 – Royston Photographic Society
14th October 2014 – Haslemere Camera Club
15th October 2014 – Faversham and District Camera Club
20th November 2014 – Battle Camera Club
21st October 2014 – Maidstone Camera Club
23rd October 2014 – Ealing and Hampshire House Photographic Society
27th October 2014 – Sevenoaks Camera Club
28th October 2014 – Oxford Photographic Society
29th October 2014 – Yately Camera Club
30th October 2014 – Croxley Camera Club
3rd November 2014 – Mid-Sussex Camera Club
6th November 2014 – Letchworth Camera Club
10th November 2014 – Windsor Photographic Society
12th November 2014 – Dartford & District Photographic Society
14th November 2014 – Southend-on-Sea Photographic Society
18th November 2014 – Brighton & Hove Camera Club
20th November 2014 – Basingstoke Camera Club
27th November 2014 – Hungerford Camera Club
8th December 2014 – Crawley Camera Club
9th December 2014 – Bognor Regis Camera Club
11th December – Newbury Camera Club
8th January 2015 – Tonbridge Camera Club
19th January 2015 – Woodford & Wanstead Camera Club
28th January 2015 – Steyning Camera Club
2nd February 2015 – Walthamstow and District Photographic Society
10th February 2015 – Winchester Photographic Society
19th February 2015 – Bookham Camera Club
26th February 2015 – Gateway Camera Club
10th March 2015 – Bedford Camera Club
12th March 2015 – Harlow Photographic Society
19th March 2015 – Invicta Photographic Club
23rd March 2015 – Carshalton Camera Club
26th March 2015 – Wallingford Photographic Club
8th April 2015 – Ross on Wye Camera Club
9th April 2015 – Beacon Camera Club
15th April 2015 – Sittingbourne Photographic Society
21st April 2015 – Maidenhead Camera Club
30th April 2015 – Tandridge Photographic Society
6th May 2015 – Sittingbourne Photographic Society
22nd June 2015 – Southampton Camera Club
1st September 2015 – Worcestershire Camera Club
7th September 2015 – Edmonton Camera Club
8th September 2015 – Leeds Photographic Society
28th September 2015 – Gravesend Camera Club
7th October 2015 – Edinburgh Photographic Society
21st October 2015 – Horndean Camera Club
25th October 2015 – RPS Visual Art Group South-West Region
26th November 2015 – Exeter Camera Club
3rd December 2015 – Chichester Camera Club
20th January 2016 – Midhurst Camera Club
11th February 2016 – Wokingham & East Berkshire Camera Club
15th February 2016 – Newark & District Photographic Society
16th February 2016 – Sheffield Photographic Society
22nd February 2016 – Epsom Camera Club
15th March 2016 – Malling Photographic Society
21st March 2016 – Whitstable Photographic Club
29th April 2016 – Seaford Photographic Society
21st May 2016 – RPS Visual Art Rollright Group
13th September 2016 – Thurrock Camera Club
26th September 2016 – Benfleet Camera Club
14th October 2016 – Overton Photography Club
2nd November 2016 – Adderbury, Deddington & District Photographic Society
5th December 2016 – Cheltenham Camera Club
20th February 2017 – Seven Sisters Camera Club
23rd February 2017 – Backwell Camera Club
9th March 2017 – Ampthill & District Camera Club
15th March 2017 – Alton Camera Club
5th April 2017 – Croydon Camera Club
25th April 2017 – Herne Bay Photographic Club
10th May 2017 – Mitcham Camera Club
20th September 2017 – Ware & District Photographic Society
17th October 2017 – Newton Abbot Photographic Club
18th October 2017 – Highcliffe and Infinity Photography Club
31st October 2017 – Sandhurst Camera Club
15th November 2017 – Field End Photographic Society
22nd November 2017 – Aldershot, Farnham & Fleet Camera Club
1st February 2018 – Storrington Camera Club
13th February 2018 – Bishops Stortford Camera Club
14th March 2018 – Deal & District Camera Club
15th March 2018 – Biggleswade and DCC
22nd March 2018 – Swindon Photographic Society
29th March 2018 – New City Photographic Society
5th April 2018 – Uckfield Camera Club
10th April 2018 – Photofold Camera Club
6th May 2018 – RPS North West Region DIG
4th September 2018 – Solihull Photographic Society
26th September 2018 – Leighton Buzzard Photographic Club
9th October 2018 – Devizes Camera Club
29th November 2018 – Watford Camera Club
3rd December 2018 – Woodley Photographic Club
15th February 2019 – Hertford and District Camera Club
8th March 2019 – Staplehurst Photographic Club
18th March 2020 – Buckingham Camera Club
22nd April 2020 – Canterbury Photographic Society
