This Friday, John Haines from Great Barr Photographic Society will judge the 3rd Merit PDI Competition.
On Friday 13 March Wendy Irvin https://new.masteroflight.org/wendy-irwin/ presents her talk “The Pop-Up Book and other Stories” Wendy says “this talk is based around my biggest project yet. It’s a story about Humphey going to the moon in a large pop-up book and contains all my own images.” Sounds intriguing!
Looking a little further ahead. Hand in night for the 3rd Merit Print Competition is Friday 20 March when you can enter up to 3 colour and 3 mono prints in your particular class. Then 17 April is hand in night for Triptych competition (PDI only) and the Panel Competition 9print only.
There’s a couple of exhibitions you might be interested in seeing: MidPhot Exhibition 2026 https://mcpf.co.uk/2026-midphot-exhibition is at Smethwick PS from 15 to 29 March. You can find directions, timetable and ticket prices on the link: Ed Philips has an exhibition at The Rose Paterson Gallery, Weston Park TF11 8LE from 27 March to 29 April from 11am to 4pm daily. Entry is free to the Gallery although you do have to pay to enter other parts of the estate. you can find more information at https://weston-park.com/painted-with-light/
Finally, The Photography Show 2026 is at the NEC https://www.photographyshow.com/ from 14 to 17 March