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The 2014 exhibition runs 21 OCTOBER – 2 NOVEMBER 2014 at EMBASSY TEA GALLERY in Bankside.
Read all about our call for entries here!

The LIP Annual Exhibition, now in its 26th year, aims to provide a platform for members to exhibit their best work – to be viewed by each other and the general public. The growth of our membership makes for even more exciting and interesting shows, year after year. All members have an excellent opportunity to participate, by submitting work for review by our independent selectors, Sophy Rickett and Bill Jackson.

We’re really looking forward to exhibiting in a new venue for us this year – The Embassy Tea Gallery, located at 195-205 Union Street, London SE1 0LN. Occupying an entire floor of the historic James Ashby Tea and Coffee Warehouse in Bankside SE1, the Embassy Tea Gallery is owned by Artists Studio Company Limited (ASC), a major registered charity that exists to support visual artists and educate the public in the arts.

David Malarkey photo

This year’s Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is 27th April 2014.

Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on the last Sunday in April, can scan and upload to the www.pinholeday.org website where it will become part of the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day celebration’s online gallery. This is not a photo contest. There are no good or bad pictures. Every pinhole photograph is unique. Choose one image you love and you want to share with others!

See full details at www.pinholeday.org

Monday 2 December 2013
The Artworkers’ Guild
6 Queen Square
London WC1N 3AT
6:30pm start

The LIP Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 2 December, starting at 6:30pm. This year we will be meeting at the Artworkers’ Guild – a fascinating and original venue, and very central.

We’ve listened to your feedback from last year’s meeting and have changed the format so that the formal business won’t take as long. This means there will be plenty of time to meet your friends, get to know other members and enjoy a slideshow of the best of LIP members’ work – not to mention food and wine in beautiful surroundings.

The formal agenda and other relevant documentation for the AGM itself will be published soon. We will be electing the committee for the year, hearing from the officers, and discussing anything members want to raise, as well as outlining plans for next year. This will be a good chance to hear about some new ideas and new challenges we are setting ourselves.

It’s always a great evening, and we’re looking forward to seeing many members there – it’s a pleasant but valuable way to make a contribution to LIP as well as having a good time!

Urban Photo Fest
3-12 October 2013
Various locations, London

LIP has partnered with UPF once again for this festival, now in its second year. Events are organised in collaboration with partners throughout London, with contributions from photographers, artists, filmmakers and urban researchers. The theme is Urban Materiality, a concept embracing the physical fabric of the urban environment, with a programme including events featuring and facilitated by LIP members Hugh Look, John Levett, Michael Rodgers, Nick Scammell, Peter Luck and Judith Jones.

Also in collaboration, The Royal Photographic Society is hosting an open competition in advance with four themes: abstraction; architecture; objects; environment. There are some nifty prizes on offer and the clock’s ticking down. Details here: www.urbanphotofest.org/competition.php and for full registration and entry, see the RPS Competition site at www.rps-upf.org.

A full-day conference will be on at Tate Britain, and a symposium held at the British Library. For full event details see www.urbanphotofest.org

Thanks to all who braved the heat wave to get to the launch gathering for the INCIDENTAL summer issue of fLIP magazine!

It was terrific to meet many members joining for the first time and to see friendly familiar faces. Lots of interesting discussion was had about future LIP events and the upcoming 25th Annual Exhibition.

The issue is now available at the Photographers Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Whitechapel & Serpentine Gallery, Photofusion and more.

A Wider View
RPS Contemporary Group Weekend Event
Sat Oct 12 – Sun Oct 13, 2013
Reading College, Kings Road, Reading RG1 4HJ

The Contemporary Group of the RPS are holding their fifth annual weekend event featuring five professional photographers and a writer on photography as speakers. The event is open to all.

Speakers are: Jem Southam HonFRPS, Daniel Meadows HonFRPS, Marketa Luskacova, Dana Popa, Natasha Caruana and Francis Hodgson, who is a selector for LIP’s 25th Annual Exhibition this year.

For further details see the RPS Contemporary Group website and the booking form (PDF). Or contact Avril Harris, tel 020 8360 7996, email