The evening will showcase two invited speakers and also provide an opportunity for people in the audience to share & talk about their work own work or that of photographers that inspire or interest them.

Doors open 6.45 pm, no entry after 7.15pm Entry £3 (£2 for Second Look members).

February's featured speakers are Neil McCoubrey and Peter Metelerkamp.

Neil McCoubrey: In search of accidental beauty

Neil's talk is about finding accidental beauty and unintended narratives in places and objects that are usually hidden and perhaps, forgotten. He will focus on two locations, the Clifton Rocks Railway and the National Trust’s Tyntesfield House where 80+ rooms, closed to the public, are used for storing thousands of objects that are awaiting a purpose.

After 32 years working for Hewlett Packard, Neil fulfilled a long held ambition to do a BA in Photography from which he graduated last year. He is now establishing himself as both a Photographer and Photo-editor.

www.neilmccoubrey.com

Peter Metelerkamp: Settler Country - traces of British presence in South Africa

Peter Metelerkamp was born and grew up in South Africa. He trained at the University of Natal, the London Film School, and has an MA in Documentary Photography from Newport. He has spent many years leading postgraduate programmes in film production and documentary practice at the University of Bristol.

The project Settler Country arises from two research grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in pursuit of his interest in the undercurrents and changing circumstances of Anglophone South African settler culture.

www.settlercountry.org

Tim Jones who was due to speak at this event has had to pull out because of work commitments. We will reschedule his talk for a later date.