Viveca Koh FRPS FIPF will be joining us by Zoom and her second presentation follows on from her first –‘Urban Exploration to Fine Art: A Photographic Journey’ –in which she will discuss her use of an iPhone to take photographs, leading up to the separate challenge of attaining Fellowship with The Royal Photographic Society using illustrations from a book of poetry and prose entitled ‘Star Blossom’, in which her images become more abstract and in some cases a little surreal, utilising multiple layers, textures and double exposures, whilst using the written words as inspiration. The use of camera phones is on the rise, as the quality of cameras integrated into these devices improves exponentially, and this happened to coincide with her quest to find a new way to express herself from a photographic perspective. In early 2012 she purchased an iPhone based specifically on reviews enumerating the high quality of the camera, and also on the volume of available photography apps for shooting and processing photographs. During this time she experimented with the phone camera, almost to the exclusion of my DSLR, and shot many photographs in the square format that she has always loved but using lo-fi/creative camera apps. Also in 2012 she was also commissioned to create photo illustrations for a book of poetry and prose written by her uncle Fergus Chadwick, who saw some of her previously published Blurb books and wanted the same for his latest work. The images from this book formed the basis of my FRPS panel, and she will discuss this Distinction in the talk.

for more information on Viveca please visit her website.