LIP Central July 2025 Meeting – LIP Satellite Groups

Featured image © Nusse Mechthild Belton

19 members of the Central London (cLIP) group met at Lumen on 9^th July, and we were really pleased to welcome five new members. The theme for the evening was ‘Illusion’; four members presented work on the theme, and six members presented personal projects, asking for members’ thoughts and reactions to their work thus far.

ILLUSION

James Cashmore showed three strong images, particularly a semi-abstract of beach sand and sea water whipped up by the wind to give the illusion of fire.

Janet Nabney showed five images, two of which cleverly captured reflections in and through the window of a lighting shop where it was never clear what was real, and what was a reflection.

Nusse shared six images – particularly an image of ducks in flight, which she inverted so that the dark duck silhouettes resemble snowy white swans in flight.

Finally, within the theme, Andrew Boxer was inspired by David Hockney’s quote that ‘The camera can’t see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is more interesting.’ He presented five images, one of which captured viewers sitting on a bench in a gallery in front of a painting of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, creating the illusion that they were actually in attendance, and listening to the sermon in real time.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

Sukhy Hullait treated us to a wonderful selection from a project he has been working on for 23 years – working title All The Rage – trying to capture the essence of the area in south-east London where he lives through candid, but tender portraits of both people and plants.

Edey Templeton shared images made solely on her phone during an evening photo walk with RPS London, which yielded some arresting images of Battersea Power Station, among other points of interest.

Austin Guest had been on a photography break to the Isle of Skye, where the weather had been challenging as it can only be in Scotland, and so his images were created during the lull between storms. He showed his experiments photographing a waterfall, using differently timed exposures.

Angelika Berndt shared two of her personal projects where she embedded herself over a substantial period into very different cultures – the first a favela in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and the second in mainland China where she tried to find remaining evidence of Chinese culture within the mushrooming mega-cities. Her images are curated into wordless photo-stories, perhaps for publication in a magazine, perhaps to be displayed on a suitable gallery wall.

Steve Jones shared his working and re-working of a single base image, using various alternative processes. These included solarisation and cyanotype prints on old Ordnance Survey maps, as well as creating diptychs, and inverting the image to alter its perspective for the viewer.

Finally, Dorota Boisot shared her delight and amazement at all the new development and architecture on The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park through a series of arresting images. These were taken during a cLIP photo walk earlier this summer through the Park to visit the World Press Photography Awards exhibition on display at Here East.

There will be no group meeting in August, so our next meeting will be on Wednesday 10th September; the theme will be ‘Stability/Instability’.