London Photographers' Branch

Next Branch Meeting, 27th July: Finding Stolen Images

London Freelance Branch Secretary Mike Holderness will give a visual presentation offering tips on how to use the internet to locate images which have been used without permission and identify who is culpable for the bill. Another speaker on the same subject TBA.

Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.

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Convergence – Should we adapt and how?

29th June, 6pm
Headland House

This months Branch meeting will feature a panel discussion on Convergence, with photographer Edmond Terakopian and film editor Simon Ruben. Clients are always asking us to do more; whether it be video, audio, text or all three on top of photography. We’ll be discussing how to adapt to clients growing needs for content with shrinking budgets. Should photographers be doing the jobs of reporters and film-makers at all? What are the pitfalls of moving into different areas? Come along and join the discussion.

Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.

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On the Campaign Trial

Next weeks branch meeting will feature a panel of branch photographers who covered the election discussing how the media were manipulated, working without accreditation and paying for access.

Photographers Stephen Simpson and Graeme Robertson will be talking about their experiences.

We will be running a slideshow of election coverage so send your best pictures from the campaign trail as JPEGs, 1024px on the longest side in the sRGB colour space to editor@londonphotographers.org. Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.

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The Future of Copyright

Our next meeting will be on the future of copyright with Andrew Wiard, Guy Smallman and NUJ freelance organiser John Toner. The panel will be discussing current negotiations with the Guardian, the Bauer Media dispute and future strategies for negotiating changes to copyright law. The meeting will be next Tuesday 27th of April at 6pm in Headland House. Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.

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6pm, 23rd February at Headland House

The London Photographers’ Branch invites you to a panel debate Chaired by Jess Hurd with Martin Argles, Kelvin Bruce and John Harris.

LPB’s first meeting will be an open and frank debate about the state of the industry and a discussion about what we can gain from working collectively as photographers. Leading our discussion panel we are pleased to have:

• Martin Argles
  Staff photographer for the Guardian.
• Kelvin Bruce
  Previous Agency staffer Kelvin has been freelance since 1996 covering, royals and general news. He deals direct with clients in the UK and syndicates worldwide through Rex Features.
• John Harris
  Has been a freelance photographer for 30 years, initially working with Report photo agency, he currently runs independent UK based library Report Digital.

Branch business will be conducted as normal after the panel discussion. Any substantial motion being put to the Branch should be sent to the Branch secretary prior to the meeting.

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