On Thursday 22nd October Smethwick Photographic Society will, for the second year running, welcome the club’s long time friend Mr Leigh Preston for a ‘journey through 100 portraits’. Leigh will be presenting live in the clubroom.

Following last year’s talks entitled ‘Roads Less Travelled’ and ‘Night Walk’ Leigh will be turning his hand and lens to portraits – no doubt in his own inimitable style!

Leigh is not actually known for taking portraits, so this is an effort to show that he sometimes can and does work with people! The pictures you’ll see will cover a wide range of how Leigh tries to portray people, their environment, their character and the emotion .

Leigh has produced and published four books of his pictures – ‘Shadows of Change’, ‘Five Essays’, ‘Editions’ and very recently ‘Liverpool, a Place Apart’ which depict the various aspects of his photography as outlined above. He is a double Fellow of the RPS, and holds FIAP and PAGB distinctions, has taught photography for Gloucester and Cheltenham colleges, for Jessops, Permajet and on landscape workshops, both in the UK and abroad.

This week’s talk is part of a series of FREE ‘taster’ sessions for local Sandwell community residents and workers (non SPS members or regular guests). If interested do login or better still come along to the live presentation at the clubhouse. Full details below.