LIP Central January 2026 Meeting – LIP Satellite Groups

Featured image © David Helms

The January meeting was attended by 20 people including one new and two prospective members. Five people showed images on the ‘Memory Lane’ theme and six showed personal projects.

Fred Kavalier shared seven images of cities around the world to which, or from which, he was transporting stem cells, all unified by being in mono with a border. With a timeless, documentary quality, the locations included Dresden, Cologne, Winnipeg and Porto.

Jim Paterson revealed what a very accomplished photographer’s eye he has always had, as he shared the first photos he ever took as a 9 or10 year old while living in Venezuela where his father had the august title of Financial Controller Western Hemisphere for the Shell Oil Company.

David Helms shared six images from his extensive archive, describing them as “the ones I still think about, which have become MY memory, whether I like it or not!” These included several taken in “the decisive moment” such as Manhood, where two very different men pass one another in a blur at an art gallery.

Adam Gibson shared four images for his first time with the group. By inclination a street photographer, he says he is “excited by blank walls” which he perceives almost as stage sets, safe spaces to rest his eye, while he waits for some action to occur. Two images were taken two years ago while two were contemporary.

Austin Guest took us literally on a trip down Memory Lane with the Beatles, sharing images and stories from a visit he made to Hamburg and retracing the sketchy beginnings of The Fab Four. John Lennon was quoted as saying “I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg”.

Dorota Boisot was inspired by recent early-morning fog and mist to make a beautiful and elegiac series of monochrome images in Kew Gardens of the silhouettes of winter trees. The stillness, and coldness of the early morning are palpable.

Edey Templeton was also inspired by the season to create a lovely series of Wimbledon Common in Winter, combining both colour and monochrome, and including large scale flashes of winter colour with a carefully observed monochrome study of a single, sere reed.

Sukhy Hullait has been photographing his local community in Peckham and East Dulwich using film and a medium format camera for nearly 25 years, and we were privileged to see a small selection from this quintessentially person project. Even within less than a dozen images, it was clear to see how the demographic, the architecture and the street scene have been changing over that time.

Pauline Moon has an ongoing personal project called “Not Pictures At An Exhibition” which she describes as her “mental doodling” in between working on other more mentally taxing work. Using images taken within gallery spaces of light, shadows, and shapes, she creates triptychs, or diptychs, trying to find a balance, or resonance in tone, colour, or shape. This results in very soothing abstract images, mainly in pastel shades.

Andrew Boxer showed a page from the calendar he makes every year, in this case the month of protest – a collage of the street photographs he made at demonstrations and rallies in London during 2025.

Frankie McAllister went to a very rainy Lake District in November and found the experience of walking slowly through the rain-drenched landscape, thinking, remembering, and experimenting with improvised filters, or even rain drops on the lens itself to be a very mindful process. The resulting images in monochrome are imbued with a sense of place, of stillness, and despite the rain and mist, have great depth “like you can see a long, long way”.