Friends hold joint exhibition of photography

THREE retired friends who are members of a photography collective held a joint exhibition.

Dee Robinson, Andrew Kerr and Maria Mademyr, of the Watlington Photographers Collective, showcased social and street photography, lumen prints and still life.

Ms Robinson displayed photographs at the venue in High Street, which included arrangements of shells that had been in her back garden.

She said: “This time of the year, for me, I look at it as being perhaps more gift-oriented rather than more serious photography. I just thought of shells and I think I can do something with those. I made a little studio on my desk and laid them out and put a couple of lights on and took the photographs. I like to take what’s going on around me.”

Mr Kerr displayed photos portraying the theme of “Summer in England”. This included a photograph of a friend serving glasses of Pimm’s from a barge on the Grand Union Canal and a woman looking tentatively at a photo at the Wormsley Estate Cricket Club. He said: “I do quite a bit of social and street photography and I thought I just wanted to capture what it was like being in England over the summer.”

He described one of his pictures, an orderly queue for an ice-cream truck taken at the Ewelme Village Show in August, as quintessentially “British”.

Mr Kerr added: “In other parts of the world they would all be crammed up together, but this is orderly and well-separated.”

Ms Mademyr showed photos of lumen prints made using rowan leaves and black and white photos of seedheads.

She said: “You don’t know what is going to happen, what colours you’re going to get. It depends on the paper, the temperature, all sorts of different aspects.”