Club Meeting, 'The London Salon 2023' - Tuesday 17th September 2024.
On Tuesday, September 17th, Morpeth Camera Club gathered to watch a Projected Digital Image (PDI)
presentation featuring the accepted and award-winning entries from the 2023 London Salon of Photography.
The salon is an international exhibition open to photographers from around the world. Members choose the
entries and select the images to be displayed in the exhibition. The London Salon has been held every year
since its establishment over a hundred years ago, even during the First and Second World Wars.
The London Salon aims to ‘exhibit only that class of work in Pictorial Photography in which there is a distinct
evidence of personal artistic feeling and execution’. There was a wide range of subjects: abstract images were
featured most prominently in the selection, followed by landscape, still life, studio work, and reportage/street
life/documentary images.
Among the abstract images, using manipulation to add texture and a painterly effect were asymmetrical steps
with a strong linear feel, a Daliesque clock face and boldly stated graphics of a lone chair. Landscapes included
High Snowdonia with a sense of grandeur and isolation, and a power wall of spray from a dramatic waterfall.
Shadows on downland undulating hills, and a ghostly wave of colour from sand dunes followed.
Travel photography taken in remote locations showed controlled observation of local people, the soulful gaze
of young children, descriptive of circumstance, sending a powerful message of an impoverished situation. Also
included were thought-provoking documentary images, real, not superficial maintaining a sense of dignity.
Studio images of impactful colourful dancers portraying intense emotion, contrasted with a seemingly line-drawn
flowing, gossamer-dressed dancer evoking a sense of calm. Street photography followed by café culture with a
Parisienne twist, brief fleeting city moments, upbeat situations, a sad statement of dining alone and blurred
commuters in the rain.
Moody shots taken through the grime and salt of a pavilion window and a disused old greenhouse, several Still
life captures of delicate flowers, and conversely, disturbing old dolls, artistically delicate high key images of a
stairwell, a glass on a bedside table which evoked a sense of grace, and Intentional camera movement trees
with a dreamlike softness and a suggestion of restfulness, were included in this stunning set of images.
©Dreaming of Holidays - Donald Lanstone. ©The Old Waiting Room - Bob Bracher.
An excellent commentary on all of the awarded and accepted images was provided by salon member Leigh
Preston. His description and views proved to be insightful regarding the quality required for inclusion. Club
Chairman closed the evening by saying that we had all seen something very different and inspiring, after
which refreshments were served.
Steph.
presentation featuring the accepted and award-winning entries from the 2023 London Salon of Photography.
The salon is an international exhibition open to photographers from around the world. Members choose the
entries and select the images to be displayed in the exhibition. The London Salon has been held every year
since its establishment over a hundred years ago, even during the First and Second World Wars.
The London Salon aims to ‘exhibit only that class of work in Pictorial Photography in which there is a distinct
evidence of personal artistic feeling and execution’. There was a wide range of subjects: abstract images were
featured most prominently in the selection, followed by landscape, still life, studio work, and reportage/street
life/documentary images.
Among the abstract images, using manipulation to add texture and a painterly effect were asymmetrical steps
with a strong linear feel, a Daliesque clock face and boldly stated graphics of a lone chair. Landscapes included
High Snowdonia with a sense of grandeur and isolation, and a power wall of spray from a dramatic waterfall.
Shadows on downland undulating hills, and a ghostly wave of colour from sand dunes followed.
Travel photography taken in remote locations showed controlled observation of local people, the soulful gaze
of young children, descriptive of circumstance, sending a powerful message of an impoverished situation. Also
included were thought-provoking documentary images, real, not superficial maintaining a sense of dignity.
Studio images of impactful colourful dancers portraying intense emotion, contrasted with a seemingly line-drawn
flowing, gossamer-dressed dancer evoking a sense of calm. Street photography followed by café culture with a
Parisienne twist, brief fleeting city moments, upbeat situations, a sad statement of dining alone and blurred
commuters in the rain.
Moody shots taken through the grime and salt of a pavilion window and a disused old greenhouse, several Still
life captures of delicate flowers, and conversely, disturbing old dolls, artistically delicate high key images of a
stairwell, a glass on a bedside table which evoked a sense of grace, and Intentional camera movement trees
with a dreamlike softness and a suggestion of restfulness, were included in this stunning set of images.
©Dreaming of Holidays - Donald Lanstone. ©The Old Waiting Room - Bob Bracher.
An excellent commentary on all of the awarded and accepted images was provided by salon member Leigh
Preston. His description and views proved to be insightful regarding the quality required for inclusion. Club
Chairman closed the evening by saying that we had all seen something very different and inspiring, after
which refreshments were served.
Steph.