DECEMBER 2020
Newsletter of the RPS Documentary Group In this Issue: • • • • • • •
Feature - Our Engagement Talk Series All roads lead to Wigan Pier - Tim Foster Our Updated Workshop Series Feature - Documentary Photographer of the Year 2021 Upcoming Events Our October Bi-monthly competition winner and gallery Help needed for DPOTY 2021 (please)
... from the Chair As we head into 2021, and with the promise of a vaccine, we are beginning to think about physical events again. However, given the popularity of our online talks and workshops and the continued uncertainty, we are planning to hold all our January to March events online. Hopefully by the summer we can begin to hold exhibitions or in-person workshops. Going online has created a number of benefitis though, our events are much more accessible. We now have attendees from across the globe and the RPS community; something that was almost impossible before. Our workshop series has been close to fully booked since we started earlier in the year. We plan to run three more workshops in January, February and March 2021. Booking for these is already open. I have been particuarly pleased with the response to our Engagement Talk series, aiming to connect with the wider documentary community. We have had excellent talks from some of our DPOTY 2019 winners, John Bulmer, Mik Critchlow, Margaret Mitchell and, in our last before the break, Jim Mortram. Jim talked about his long term social documentary work in his local community and the importance of being really invested in why you are doing the project something we also emphasise in our workshsops. In the new year we already have three talks booked and at least one more planned, which will be to coincide with the launch of DPOTY2021. Watch this space. Take care Mark