Above: photographs by London Portrait Group member Maurice Rubeck AMPA
learning by doing and having what a little insular: Print Critiques give raphers to arrive for dinner at 7pm, BIPP, or both, but it isn’t affiliated
you’re doing explained. I insist that them the chance to hear new ideas if they can make it. “You can often to either so you get a very broad
all my photographers go along to about their work”. learn more having a bite to eat mixture – from people who have
the critiques – in fact I insist that with others in the same field than got their fellowship to young pho-
they go to the LPG full stop. It’s a Social whirl can during the meeting”, explains tographers just starting out. It does
vital thing whatever stage you’re at Finch. a great deal for the profession”.
in photography”. And given that insularity, the social “It’s so nice to talk to other “Photography can be lonely work
“The winner gets a crystal aspect of the night is not to be portrait photographers”, says Len so meeting up with others feels
trophy that they can put in their sniffed at. The LPG now meets Dance. “We’re a diverse group and really good”, agrees Lowe. “It’s
window, and that’s really useful for in a conference suite in Pin Wei very isolated, so we don’t often get good just to meet up and have a
a high street photographer”, adds Restaurant in Abbots Langley but the opportunity to meet. Most of drink and a chat. One of things
Paul Kaye. “But the critique is good although the meetings start at the photographers who go to the that’s really good about the LPG is
for everyone. Photographers can be 8pm, the organisers invite photog- LPG are members of the MPA, or that it meets at the same time and
Below: by Ray Lowe Hon FMPA
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