Royal Photographic Society

As you know, we did great work with Masters of Photography.

We also helped out the Royal Photographic Society, and I met an absolutely wonderful guy called Michael Wilson.

Michael, uh, was in charge of Eon Productions, Cubby Broccoli's stepson, you know, a stepbrother to Barbara Broccoli.

Lovely guy, lovely family, and they'd done an amazing job in that.

So I was at a Royal Photographic Society awards, and I met Michael, and he likes whiskey.

So he said, "Do you know what? Come around to my house tomorrow." He has one of the great photographic collections.

So I ran around.

By the early nineteen twenties, the photographs were being reproduced widely across newspapers and illustrated books.

Public fascination grew to the point where a photo exhibit opened at the Royal Photographic Society and collectors began seeking the original glass plates.

The technology used, long exposure, no flash, could easily have produced ghostly overlays if someone had been careful to insert paper cutouts.

Indeed, Elsie later admitted that she copied figures from a children's book, shaping them with cardboard and placing them into the frame.

Professional circus juggler, a world-traveling ukulele musician, virtuoso saw player, large format camera builder, and as of late, a renowned wet plate collodion artist.

Once awarded the International Portrait Photographer of the Year in 2022, he's also a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and takes captivating portraits that really stand out with not only their uniqueness of subject, but expert usage of the collodion process.

Based in Bristol, England, I'd like to welcome Mr. Dennis Teeth to, uh, hold on, let me, let me check my notes here.

Sorry.

Um, and at the time when I did the, the collodion course, I was actually sort of halfway through building a, a large format, uh, digital camera, which was a, like, a side project for me.

But those, those two worlds, the collodion world and my large format digital work combined.

Yeah, um, and that, that, that's how I got my, uh, fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society.

Now, were these large format video cameras, they were still using old lenses with modern capture?

Tan Lip Sing was a self-taught photographer who... who spent decades capturing everyday Singapore from market vendors and fishing communities to religious processions and the changing Lion City skyline to the beauty of nature too.

In 1970, Tan became the first Singaporean Fellow of the UK Royal Photographic Society before receiving the Cultural Medallion for Photography in 1985.

His work lives on in the collections of the National Gallery Singapore and the National Museum of Singapore.

And his work has even appeared on Singapore postage stamps.

So he actually put together a set of my pictures and actually encouraged me to apply for an award in the UK.

So it's one of the very first awards that he got at the beginning of his career.

It's called the Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society of the Great Britain, ARPS for short.

And I think he actually curated a panel of 15 pictures for me.