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f or LONDON INDEPENDENTPHOTOGRAPHY or LONDON 35 ON THE STREET £4 Published by for LONDON INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY Satellite Groups Small informal groups meet approximately once a month to discuss each others’ work, plan exhibitions and just share ideas. As groups are independently organised by members, the structure, content, times, dates, and frequency of meetings are left to the individual groups to decide for themselves. Contact an organiser for more details about a specific group: Central London Hugh Look - [email protected] Crossing Lines Editor’s Note 4 John Levett - [email protected] Crouch End Letter from... Bondi Beach Katie Waggett 4 Eva Turrell - [email protected] Dulwich/Sydenham MY WAY Yoke Matze - [email protected] #35 On the Streets, Winter 2016 Ealing Cover image Maggie Railton Robin Segulem - [email protected] Johannesburg - On The Move Rashida Mangera 6 Back Image: Miguel Fonta Greenwich John Levett - [email protected] 8 Static Tensions Oliver Raschka 8 London Independent Photography is a community organisation Kingston upon Thames of photographers from different backgrounds and levels of Matthew Green - [email protected] expertise who wish to develop their individual approach to Putney On Not Being A Street Photographer Peter Luck 10 photography. The group was founded in 1987 as an informal Andrew Wilson - [email protected] gathering of like-minded photographers, and has since grown Queens Park to over 600 members. Not-for-profit and run by member Simon Butcher - [email protected] FEATURES volunteers, LIP comes together to offer a programme of Ruislip Metroland workshops and talks, and to produce an annual group exhibition. Robert Davies - [email protected] www.londonphotography.org.uk Shoreditch Through A Glass Darkly Nick Turpin 12 Roland Ramanan - [email protected] The magazine for London Independent Photography is West Wickham Made in Chengdu Larry Hallegua 16 published three times per year with the aim to showcase Sam Tanner - [email protected] members’ work and to engage readers in a wider dialogue In Focus: The Female Viewpoint 22 concerning diverse approaches to photography. It is funded Contact Details 22 entirely by annual membership fees, contains no advertising [email protected] The photograph that inspired me Jason Reed 32 and is free to members. Submissions are welcome online and selections for publication Membership are made solely at the Editor’s discretion. No responsibility or THEME Annual Subscription: £29 UK / £34 Outside UK liability is accepted for the loss or damage of any material or Application details are online at for those received after the submission deadline. www.londonphotography.org.uk/joinLIP All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be How we see: On the Streets 33 Submissions reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or The theme for the next issue is ON THE STREETS storage in any medium by electronic or mechanical means) BACKFLIP Submissions are accepted online, for guidelines go to without written permission from the copyright owner. www.londonphotography.org.uk/magazine/submit Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed Editor to the publisher. The views expressed in this publication are Exposure 58 Frank Orthbandt not necessarily the views of the publisher or the editors. The [email protected] publisher and editors accept no responsibility for any errors or Streets On A Shoestring Dan Ginn 58 for the results of the use of any information contained within Assistant Editor the publication. Copyright London Independent Photography, LIP Matters 61 Chris Moxey 2015. All photographs in this publication are copyright of the photographer and articles are copyright of the writer, unless Exhibition Highlights 62 Contributing Editor otherwise indicated. Ingrid Newton Printed in the UK by THE MAGAZINE PRINTING COMPANY plc, www.magprint.co.uk Members’ Books 62 Artwork and Layout Turning Point Ewa Priester 66 Frank Orthbandt Contributors 67 51 LETTER FROM... Editor’s Note elcome to fLIP’s winter edition where we will be taking you ON THE STREETS. As a photographic community rooted in London, street photog- Wraphy has always been an important part of LIP and this has again been confirmed by the volume and quality of submissions we have received in response to this theme. Many thanks for all your enthusiasm and your interesting reflections! In keeping with the wider development in contem- porary street photography, submissions have been ‘Bondi is a symbol of wider and more diverse than those considered as classic street style; often moving away from finding Australia's laidback, outdoor the ‘decisive moment’, interpreting the theme in a wider context, contemplating the human environment lifestyle and the country's – and reflecting on our impact on the city and commu- nity that surrounds us. Of course, there was classic iconic 'sun, sea and sand street photography, from both London and further afield, but others had captured something else, either image'. Diverse in class, by focusing on people in their urban environment - or by portraying urban scenes, where humans are not culture, nationality and age, directly depicted, however their impact on the scene is chronicled. it acts as a representation So, with great variety and quality to choose from, this of Australia's modern issue is colourful, packed with images, and hopefully entertaining and thought-provoking during winter democracy. time. Letter from… Many members have asked for more advance notice Everything happens on for the themes in order to have more time to develop Bondi Beach work for submissions; hence we have decided to Bondi.'; release two new themes for the 2017 issues. The By Katie Waggitt theme of next year’s spring issue will be Reflections, followed by Storytelling for the summer issue. The submission deadlines will be confirmed nearer the time but earmark February and June respectively. For the summer issue we are hoping to concentrate on visual narratives, which can take some time to ’d been living in Sydney for a while, immersing develop. myself in everything Antipodean when I started thinking about the central role of the As we conclude 2016 with this issue, the fLIP team beach to the Australian way of life. When I wishes you a happy festive season and lots of creativ- started taking photographs on Bondi Beach I ity and inspiration for 2017. set out to explore what 'the beach' means to walls, the worn iron railings and red bricks. It's as and backpackers in their droves. Body builders troll Ipeople, asking beachgoers to write down one word though everything was built ad hoc, with no thought the shores, whilst the young and beautiful while away that they associate with this shared space. And of design or style. But scratch beneath the surface and Sunday afternoons lazing by the barbecues. It’s a there were so many: childhood, escapism, freedom, it’s something else. playground for every aspect of social interaction. arrogance, relationships, memories, tradition, routine, Best wishes, family, community. The list goes on... Bondi is a symbol of Australia's laidback, outdoor This photograph is from a series of portraits which lifestyle and the country's iconic ‘sun, sea and sand’ explore the varying characters and identities that Frank Orthbandt At first glance Bondi may appear tacky, commercial, image. Diverse in class, culture, nationality and age, Bondi puts on show. Through making portraits on a even dirty - but when you delve into it you learn to it acts as a representation of Australia's modern beach that’s so integral to the city of Sydney, I’ve been [email protected] love it. It’s beautifully ugly. When I take photographs democracy. Everything happens on Bondi; from able to meet and interact with the many characters on Bondi I’m attracted to this juxtaposition. Its skating to dancing, surfing to bronzing, it’s a hub that contribute to the city’s makeup. And in this way man-made surroundings are unsophisticated: the of boundless activity. It presents us with bustling the camera has been a vehicle for me to get to know a sixties-style architecture with paint peeling off the children and gossiping mothers, surf-clad teenagers city in ways that others cannot. 4 FLIP FLIP 5 MY WAY Johannesburg on the Move. By Rashida Mangera ‘All the images captured were grab shots and have not been edited.’ his project is based on memories, jacaranda trees blossom in early Spring, transforming migrations and reconnecting with that large swathes of the city with their purple canopies. which has become unfamiliar with time. On a visit to the rooftop of an apartment block to view the spectacular trees, I met a group of women who Johannesburg is where I lived as a child live in small rooms at the top of the building, many and young adult. It’s also where I went sharing communal bathrooms and kitchens. They Tto University and graduated as a medical doctor. are employed as domestic workers by tenants in the Postgraduate studies took me to Toronto, which apartment block. These women form the backbone of became my second home when I stayed on and set up South African society but they are largely undervalued practice as a paediatric neurologist. I moved to the as workers. The women invited me into their ‘homes’. UK when I got married. Hertford and now London are I did a series of environmental portraits of Live-In home. Domestic Workers. The women were given printed photographs. “So where is home?” I am often asked. Home is where I am currently living. I carry with me memories of and As it was not safe to wander around the city with or from my other homes.