London Photographers' Branch

A recording of the talk on the staff photographer redundancies at the Johnston Press regional newspaper group, given by NUJ Deputy General Secretary Barry Fitzpatrick  at our November branch meeting, is available via the link below.  Unfortunately,  contributions from the floor were not recorded at sufficient quality, and have been cut from this edit.

Audio link: LPB131126

A recording of the talk on Personal Projects given by Stuart Freedman at our October branch meeting, and the discussion that followed, is available via the link below.

Audio link: 1310LPB

A recording of the talks and discussion at our September branch meeting, on Working in Hostile Environments, is now available via the link below. Guy Smallman spoke about some of the precautions photographers should take when working in difficult situations both at home and abroad, and Laura El-Tantawy talked about living and working in Egypt through the recent years of upheaval.

Audio link: 1309LPB

Below is a recording of the talks given by Stephen Lee and Marc Vallée at our July branch meeting. It begins with a presentation by Zarina Holmes of a slide show prepared by Martin Brink. A PDF of the slide show can be viewed via the link below.

Audio:  LPB 130730

Martin Brink PDF:  NUJ_LPB_Martin_Brink

This is a recording of the talk given by Edmund Terakopian on shooting DSLR video at our May branch meeting.
LPB DSLR Video

This is a recording of the talks given at our June branch meeting.  They are presented here in the order they were given.

Martin Argles, ex-staff photographer at the Guardian: (11.20 mins)

Paul Mason, Economics Editor of Newsnight: (16.30  mins)

Discussion: (28.30 mins)

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This is a recording of the talks given at our April branch meeting.  They are presented here in the order they were given.

COPYRIGHT:  Andrew Wiard (9.35 mins) and John Toner (5.48 mins)

SPECIAL PROCEDURE MATERIAL and PRODUCTION ORDERS:  Katie Wheatley (13.07 mins) and Roy Mincoff (12.17 mins).

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Working Collectives from London Photographers’ Branch on Vimeo.

Audio from the February London Photographers’ Branch meeting and discussion on Tuesday 26 February discussing working in collectives. Featuring three speakers, Zarina Holmes, Ross Domoney of Aletheia Photos and Guy Smallman from Reel News.

At the LPB January 2013 Branch Discussion journalist and filmmaker Leah Borromeo spoke about crowd-funding. Leah has worked as deputy foreign editor at Sky News, Channel 4 News and APTN; among the publications she contributes to are the Index on Censorship, the British Journal of Photography and Juxtapoz. She films for NGOs, social movements and factual programmes across the developing world from Haiti to Gaza to Pakistan and Iran. She is currently directing a feature documentary with Dartmouth Films on Indian farmer suicides and fashion called Dirty White Gold.

September Branch Meeting: Rates and New Media from London Photographers’ Branch on Vimeo.

We were very pleased to have Anna Stevens, the multimedia producer at Panos Pictures and video journalist Jason Parkinson to discuss the issues around getting the rate for the job and embracing new forms of media. The event was Chaired by Jess Hurd.

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