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                    Next E&D evening — 21 February 2024 at 7pm

              Image discussion with Tony Bramley FRPS



          The image discussion will be followed by a social get-together with wine and
                               snacks, reports E&D convenor Steffne Hughes.

                                      Our image evaluation
                                      evening last year was            What is Suprematism?
                                      so successful that we    The Royal Pho-
                                      will be repeating it. This   tographic So-
                                      time, instead of each    ciety describes
                                      member offering com-     Suprematism*
                                      ment on an image, we     as a highly ge-
                                      have been lucky enough   ometric style of
                                      to get UK photographer,   early 20th cen-
                                      Tony Bramley (left with   tury  non-ob-
                                      Gatsby), to discuss the   jective abstract
                                      images.                  painting, ignor-
          Tony has been working as a professional photographer   ing the familiar
          for over twenty-five years, winning several awards and   appearance of
          accreditations during this time from the British Institute   objects,  devel-
          of Professional Photographers and the Royal Photo-   oped  by  Rus-
          graphic Society.                                     sian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935).
          Storm Photography has been the professional photogra-  Abstracted from a single photograph, in purest form, im-
          phy side of his work                                 ages are very geometric, against a white background,
          for most of this time.                               disclosing shape, line, colour and space, producing en-
          In 2016, he started                                  ergy  and  dynamics.  A  new,  unique  composition,  that
          The Light Academy,                                   transcends photography, is formed.
          providing   one-to-
          one   photography
          training, as well as for                            followed by the  Bill Wisden MBE HonFRPS Fellowship of
          groups  and  group                                  the Year Award in 2016, for the ‘most outstanding panel
          workshops.                                          of work achieving a Fellowship’.
          In December 2015,                                   His personal photography includes abstract, street, mod-
          he was made a Fel-                                  ern and contemporary architecture, still life and portrait
          low of the Royal Pho-                               photography.
          tographic Society for                               His interests encompass photography history, modern
          his unique concep-                                  art, Russian Avant-garde, aviation and sailing.
          tual work on blend-
          ing the Suprematism                                 Please send any images you would like Tony to discuss
          art genre with pho-                                 to Steff (Steffnehughes@gmail.com) by 14 February.
          tography*.  This  was                               All images supplied by Tony Bramley.

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