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Forthcoming E & D Presentation: 21 June 2023

The Heart of the Photograph – David duChemin

David du Chemin is a best-selling author of 32 books, an award-winning
photographer, and a leading expert in the field of creativity, reports Joyce
Goldschmidt.
Our June E&D evening will be in the form of a video presentation by David
titled Heart of the Photograph, illustrated by inspiring photographs from
around the world. This virtual lecture is a 90-minute conversation, explor-
ing ten powerful ideas about the creation of more engaging photographs.
David will discuss techniques and ways of thinking about the creation of
images designed to engage human imagination and emotion, and creat-
ing images that are more than just visual, but visceral. He’ll discuss vision
and intent, the use of space and time, the creation of depth, creative point
of view, and other tools and ideas for making photographs that are more
than just ‘of’ something but about something more, something we can
feel and experience more deeply.
“The best photographs aren't a product of how you use a camera, but of
how you think,” he says. “This is a lecture about learning to think more
intentionally and creatively about the tools you use and the photographs
you make”.
Visit this link https://www.theheartofthephotograph.com/ for a 3-minute
video about his book The Heart of the Photograph.

Enjoyable image discussion in May

The desire to take part in image discussion was clearly identi- or judging process objective, it remains subjective where per-
fied by a number of our members who took part in the strate- sonal preferences dominate. Several commentators strongly
gic think tank at the end of January, Council debated the issue disagreed with each other about the merits of images and
and decided to have such a session at least every third month how they should be changed — and all solidly motivated their
on the third Wednesday. positions.
The first session was held in May and Nicol du Toit facilitated It was particularly enjoyable to see that everybody was pre-
the discussion. pared to voice their opinion, irrespective of whether they were
Members were asked to send in images on which they wanted a beginner or a well-seasoned veteran. It was very different to
people to comment. These ranged from images they thought the normal competition evening where only the judges are al-
were hard done by judges, or where they did not understand lowed to speak.
a judge’s comments, or with which they could not understand The half time refreshments (wine, soft drinks and savouries)
why they did not get acceptances in salons or golds in the club provided by Trudi du Toit and Jacoba van Zyl, no doubt con-
competitions. tributed to the jovial atmosphere.
Twenty-five people attended and quite a few lively discus- It seemed as if everybody enjoyed the discussion, and we’ll
sions took place, but in a lighthearted atmosphere. It quickly definitely continue having these get-togethers regularly in
became clear that, try as you might to make the evaluation the future.

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