The wider world of photography part 2

Ashley Franklin visited Keyworth Camera Club on February 13th to give his presentation The Wider World of Photography part 2. Having seen part 1 a few seasons ago, this new talk drew the membership in to see just what images and stories Ashley would show us during this look back into the history of photography.

Ashley covered a wide range of subjects in the first half, which included the story of aviation photography and a look at advertising (remember those Marlboro and Bensen & Hedges ads?). Ashley also delved into the worlds of landscape, sport, science and nature photography. All this supported by entertaining patter sprinkled with thought-provoking quotes from the photographers work on show. 

The second-half of the evening really made you question your thoughts on just what makes a photograph worthy of the name as Ashley explored the often-baffling world of photo art. Controversial at times and an area of photography that Ashley (and many of our members) struggled to understand. The difference between an art critiques lyrical waxing’s compared to our own (and club judges) observations on images couldn’t be further apart if we tried. 

Ashley narrated his well-researched script in a lively and amusing tone, often having the audience in fits of laughter as we marvelled at extraordinary photographs and were left stunned in disbelief at others. 

Thank-you Ashley for agreeing to give us this very enjoyable evening, one that has provided us with enough fodder for debate for a long, long time to come.

Similar Posts

  • January Review 2025

    We have now entered the ‘Zoom’ phase of our year, as all meetings in January and February (apart from the last Thursday) are on-line. This enables us to see presentations by top photographers from all over the UK and further afield covering a wide range of subjects.  January started with Kevin Pigney on his passion…

  • Composition Rules and Myths

    The members of Keyworth Camera Club were witness to a very different style of guest presentation on Thursday night when we were entertained and educated by Sue Clark of Conwy Camera Club. Sue spent the evening talking about the various rules and myths surrounding a key aspect of photography, namely composition. Sue had spent a…

  • Welcome Night and Treasure Hunt Results

    Tonight saw the first Keyworth Camera Club meeting of the season with an internal themed competition via Zoom. The Chairman welcomed everyone and thanked the committee team for their extra hard work in providing the additional summer programme of competitions, critiques, speakers, members workshops and external location shoots. The competition was a treasure hunt. Members…

  • Members Night Sept 2020

    Our Thursday night Zoom meeting this week took the form of a members evening and we invited a number of colleagues to share some images with the club members. The images were not necessarily to be of competition quality. There would be no judging or critique. We simply asked them to tell us why the…

  • Chairman’s Evening 2021

    Thursday January 7th was our Chairman’s Evening. Rob had to organize something for this night and he invited Keith Wilson, an aviation photographer, to give us a talk on his life of photographing aircraft. This proved to be a very entertaining evening. Keith’s air-to-air images were absolutely stunning. As well as a wide variety of…