RPS London Region Members' Print Exhibition 2022-23 - Selection Day No. 3

Come and join in the selection and have one of your pictures in the London Region Members 2023 Exhibition in April 2023.

This is the third of three selection days - the others are Saturday 5th and Saturday 19th November.

To take part on 5th November, book here (Bookings close on 3rd November)

To take part on 19th November, book here (Bookings close on 17th November)

To take part on 3rd December, book on this page. (Bookings close on 1st December)

You can only enter images into one Selection Day!

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Background. For the last five years, London Region has held an Exhibition of London Members' work.

Our philosophy is that each London Member should have at least one picture selected.

The process is that each London Member puts forward four pictures, which are voted on "democratically" by these present at each Selection Day.  

This year we will select the image/s online, as we did last year, but rather than creating a long, tiring day we are offering three dates: on each of these dates where will be a maximum of 45 submissions and we plan on finishing by lunchtime.

Following the selection, we will ask Members to print and mount their images to fit into a standard 50cm x 40cm frame. For Members who are unable to print and mount their image, we can arrange to print their image at cost (estimated £7 to £10). As this is a "Print Exhibition", we really prefer people to print and mount their images so that they can be sure their image is shown as they wish.

Here's what you need to do:-

• Sign up by following the link above
• Prepare four digital images for the Exhibition Selection Day.  Images can be any size but, for guidance, should be at least 1mb.
• Upload to Dropbox, which will be sent to all those who have signed up.
• Set aside the morning to share in the selection process!

What shape will the day take:-

• Everyone who signs up will be able to join via Zoom
• First Round.  Pictures will be shown in a group of four for each photographer and those present will be able to vote (using the zoom voting process) for the two they like best
• Second Round.  This will be the opportunity to see each photographer's two shortlisted images again and to vote on an "either/or" basis for the image you would like to see in the exhibition This will give us a set of Preferred Images and a set of Reserve Images from which to create our Exhibition.

What's next

All the Preferred Images will be displayed as framed and mounted prints in the Exhibition. If there is wall space available, our Exhibition Designer and Organisers will choose some from the Reserve Images to create a "balanced" Exhibition. Those Reserve Images which cannot be displayed as prints, will be included in a rolling digital display.

We hope that we will be able to move the Exhibition round London to create more opportunities for people to see it - so if you have a Gallery in mind, please let us know. We may even be able to take the Exhibition overseas again!

General

To take part you must be an RPS London Region Member.

The selection process will be on zoom: as members will be printing their own photos, and as the gallery rental is reasonable, there will be no entry fee this year.  However, if we incur costs in moving the Exhibition to another London location or if, for example, we take the Exhibition overseas as we have this year or we hold an outdoor exhibition as we had done last year, we may have to ask for contributions from those exhibiting. 

We hope you will enjoy our Exhibition and the Exhibition selection process, which has been great fun in the past.

Just to confirm:

Selection Days are: Saturdays, 5th and 19th November and 3rd December. You may submit work on only one of these days; but you may attend other days too.

Exhibition Opening Night - Thursday, 13th April 2023

Exhibition on Display at the Espacio Gallery - 159 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG - Wednesday 12th to 16th April 2023. Opening Hours will be advised in due course.

Important:

You should receive a confirmation email shortly after signing up; if you have not received it within a couple of hours, please email london@rps.org with "Eventbrite Problem" in the title and the name and date of this event in the text.

We use the email you provide at signup to contact you about this event; please make sure you enter the details correctly and that you use and address you regularly read.