London Photographers' Branch

Unfortunately there will be no branch meeting tonight due to shortages and availability of committee members.

Our next branch meeting is scheduled for 25th October 2016, when hopefully Headland House will be available following refurbishment. Further information will be posted online in due course.

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Should you wish to fill any of the available positions on the committee, please come along to this meeting. We urgently need to fill the following roles; Secretary, Treasurer, Membership & Recruitment Officer and Union Learning Representative.

At the next meeting of photographers there will be our friends from Peru, who make sports content for the Olimpo Bet website and will be happy to share their experience.

6-9pm, Tuesday 26 July 2016
The Black Door Bar at The Fellow, 24 York Way, London, N1 9AA

For this month’s meeting we invite you for drinks and nibbles at The Fellow, before we break for the Summer!

We’ll be joined by representatives from The Association of Photographers (AOP) and the British Press Photographers’ Association (BPPA) for casual drinks and conversations.

Formal branch meetings will resume in September.

Protesters stand by at a vandalised bus stop during a student demonstration against university tuition fees in central London, Britain, 24 November 2010. Lines of police are holding back thousands of student protesters in central London, in a wave of protests against higher tuition fees and university budget cuts. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA.

6pm, Tuesday 31 May 2016.
The Studio, The London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8UE.

Respected press photographer and branch member Facundo Arrizabalaga will talk about his best images in the context of his personal journey.

Facundo was born in Argentina and studied law before discovering photography at the age of 30. After studying photojournalism here in London he worked as a freelance news photographer and joined the European Pressphoto Agency in 2012.

He won the British Journal of Photography 2011 Award for Single Image. His work has been recognised by the Press Photographer’s Year Awards and UK Picture Editors Guild.

6pm, Tuesday 26 April 2016.
Room A, London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Gray’s Inn Road London, WC1X 8UE.

At this month’s meeting human rights lawyer Jules Carey and NUJ legal officer Roy Mincoff will give a talk on the Investigatory Powers Bill and the implications for lens based journalism. Both will speak for around 15 minutes and then we will have 30 minutes for questions.

NUJ Delegate Meeting (DM 2016) Southport

Our delegates will give a report on the Delegate Meeting in the business part of the meeting.

Election of Union Learning Representative

The Union Learning Representative post is still vacant and will be on the agenda in the business part of the meeting.

6.30pm, Tuesday 29 March 2016

The Studio, London Welsh Centre, 157-163 Gray’s Inn Road London, WC1X 8UE

PLEASE NOTE NEW VENUE: MAP http://www.londonwelsh.org/contact-us/

At this month’s meeting photojournalist and NUJ member Stuart Freedman will give a talk on his experience of having his first book being published.

The Palaces of Memory is a journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafés which can be found in cities throughout the sub-continent. The Coffee Houses simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism and a now-faded grandeur. Buried deep within the country’s collective memory they have for decades acted simultaneously as political and artistic salons as well as simple eating places.

Stuart is photographer and writer based between London and New Delhi. A member of Panos Pictures, he has, over more than two decades, covered stories from Albania to Zambia and his work has featured internationally including in Life, Geo, Time, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, Paris Match, Smithsonian, Condé Nast Traveller.

The Palaces of Memory – Tales from the Indian Coffee House is published by Dewi Lewis with a foreword by Amit Chaudhuri and was shortlisted for the Pictures of the Year (POYi) best book award in the United States.  http://bit.ly/1nIyPt8

NUJ Delegate Meeting (DM 2016) Southport

We will also be looking at the motions proposed for the NUJ Delegate Meeting that will take place in Southport from Thursday 14 April to Sunday 17 April 2016. This will give us the opportunity to discuss the policies being lined up for our union, and to vote on how our delegates should address them at DM. The final DM agenda is available from the main NUJ website. https://www.nuj.org.uk/about/union-democracy/nuj-delegate-meeting/ At the January AGM we elected three out of our four DM delegates (John Rogers, Michael Cole and Michael Preston). The fourth delegate will be elected at this month’s meeting.

Election of branch officers

The following vacant branch officers posts will be up for election. Secretary, Membership Secretary and Union Learning Representative.

Michael Preston, LPB Welfare Officer writes:

Given the dramatic turn of events in regards to the acquisition of Demotix and Corbis by Getty/Visual China Group last week, the NUJ London Photographer’s Branch is looking to put together a late notice motion to be presented to the NUJ delegate conference and/or the NEC.

If you would like to feed your concerns into this please email: [email protected]

Please indicate whether you are an NUJ member.

If you are an NUJ Member, the next meeting of the NUJ London Photographer’s Branch – 23rd February – will be discussing and considering the issues arising from the sale. Please see our website for details.

You can read more about the deal and its implications for Corbis and Demotix photographers here.

The London Photographers’ Branch will hold its Annual General Meeting on 26 January at the NUJ national office, Headland House, 308 / 312 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X 8DP. It will start at 6 pm sharp.   Any motions members want to discuss must be submitted by noon on 26 January. Please send them to: [email protected].

It’s at the AGM when the activities for next year are broadly discussed and new Branch officers are elected to the committee. Any full branch member can be nominated for a post or can nominate themselves. This can be done prior to the AGM or during it. In addition, we have customarily also elected two, three or four additional members to offer general support. Temporary and Student members cannot hold a formal position, but in the past have been co-opted onto the committee in a non-portfolio role.  Joining the committee is a great way of contributing to the running and success of the branch.  No experience is necessary.  If you are thinking of standing or would like more information, please email: [email protected].

According to our Standing Orders (7) the following officers are elected:

• chair
• vice chair
• secretary (to keep records and convene meetings)
• membership and recruitment / retention officer
• treasurer (responsible for the funds in the care of the branch and for keeping accounts (must over 18 years of age)
• welfare officer ( A welfare officer to care for the interests of sick members and their spouses and liaise with  the NUJ Extra)
• equality officer  (equality officer to promote equality issues and provide a focus for questions and  complaints arising from the code of conduct)
• Union learning representative

We will also be electing our delegation to the next NUJ Delegates Meeting, which will be on 15, 16, 17 April and will take place in Southport.  The LPB is entitled to 4 delegates.

6.00 pm Tuesday 29 September 2015, Headland House, 308-312 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8DP

Film and discussion on reporting the refugee crisis with branch member and videographer Jason Parkinson.

6.00 pm Tuesday 28 July 2015, Headland House, 308-312 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8DP