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EPS Member Sandy Cleland |
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Sandy Cleland FRPS AFIAP
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs - peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken December 10, 2012 EPS Member Sandy Cleland, a Member of Edinburgh Photographic Society for over 40 years, was President of the society for 3 years from 1985. His daughter, Karen Berry, almost twenty years later, for 3 years from 2004. International Exhibitor Sandy Cleland is well known in Edinburgh, and around the world, for his Nature Photography, though his International Exhibition acceptances and Medals have been gained for his other work as well as his Nature Photography. International Selector Sandy has been a Selector for some of the major International Exhibitions around the world, including annual exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society in which he is now a very active member. Royal Photographic Society Sandy was awarded the Fenton Medal, and Honorary Membership of the RPS, in 2005. This Medal is named after Roger Fenton, one of the founders of the RPS. Up to three Fenton Medals are award annually to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the work of The Royal Photographic Society. Sandy currently serves on the Distinctions Advisory and Fellowship Boards of the RPS and was Chairman of the Selectors for the 155th RPS International Print Exhibition in 2012. |
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The London Salon |
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Neil Scott announced to EPS Members, in November 2012, that Sandy Cleland, a former President of the society had been invited to join the London Salon. To celebrate this news, EPS held a 'surprise event for Sandy on the evening of 15 December 2012 during which Sandy was presented with a Commemorative Medal. Please scroll down this page to see: RIGHT: Sandy taking a look at his Medal on 15 December 2012. FURTHER DOWN THE PAGE: EPS Members at the Celebration on 15 December 2012. |
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Sandy Elected to London Salon "We have just heard that EPS member Sandy Cleland FRPS has been invited to join the London Salon of Photography. This is a unique body of photographers, from worldwide membership, whose sole aim is to exhibit, annually, the very best of pictorial photographic imagery. Membership of the Salon is by invitation only and there are currently only 43 members. It is a great honour to be selected to membership and it must be one of the most exclusive groups in photography today. Sandy told us that he was absolutely over the moon when he opened the letter. The only previous EPS member to be invited to the Salon was Gracie Alison in 1964. Gracie was secretary of EPS from 1946 to 1985." |
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History of the Salon "The roots of this London Salon go back to the year 1893 when it was formed as "The Linked Ring", becoming the London Salon in 1910 when the first London Salon Exhibition was held. It was essentially a breakaway group from the RPS, with expressed concerns that the RPS was more concerned with the science of photography. Its sole purpose is to organise the annual London Salon of Photography. The Salon says: "The aim of the salon is to exhibit only that class of photographic work in which there is distinct evidence of artistic feeling and execution". Like the Edinburgh International Exhibition, the London Salon is for prints only, and they also accept only around 200 from the annual entry of around 2000." Other Members of the Salon "Sandy has entered prints to the London Salon for many years and has had acceptances in most years that he entered. He has also won two Salon Medals, one in the centenary year, 2011 and one this year. Sandy becomes the 43 rd member of this prestigious international group of photographers, and is now one of two Scottish photographers, along with Rikki O’Neill.Margaret Salisbury tells us that there have only ever been around 200 members of the London Salon since its inception. Other members include the three Honorary Vice Presidents of EPS: - Margaret Salisbury - Bob Moore - Bill Wisden. Other Members of the Salon who have judged the Edinburgh Exhibition include: - Leigh Preston - Chris Hinterobermaier - John Chamberlin - Steven Le Prevost - Ann Miles - Irene Froy - Alan Millward - David Wheeler - Anne Sutcliffe." Neil Scott, Edinburgh Photographic Society: November 2012 |
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EPS Members at Presentation to Sandy |
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68 Great King Street December 15, 2012 Below are photos some of the EPS Members and partners who attended the evening to celebrate Sandy Cleland's invitation to join the London Salon on December 15, 2012. This section starts and ends with photos of Sandy Cleland. - start with Sandy Cleland, followed by his daughter Karen and husband John Berry. - finish with three pictures taken in the Society's hallway, two with members in front of the bust of the early Edinburgh calotypist, D O Hill - then two more photos of Sandy. |
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Photo Sandy Cleland
Photo Karen & John Berry
Photo June Scott, Chic Calder
Photo Eion Johnston, Jim Moir
Photo Eion Johnston, Jim Moir, Billy McGuire
Photo Maidie & Eric Bower
Photo [I don't remember his name] + Malcolm Christie,
Photo David Buchanan, Tom Gardner
Photo George Johnston, Tom Gardner
Photo George Johnston, Anne Roger
Photo Ann e Roger, Izzi Vickery, Alex Melrose
Photo Billy McGuire, John Ruickbie
Photo Edith +Jim Smith, Bust of DO Hill (early Edinburgh calotypist, 1843-47), Sheila + Ian Goodall
Photo Jim Smith, Bust of DO Hill (early Edinburgh calotypist, 1843-47), Sheila + Ian Goodall
Sandy Cleland Sandy Cleland |
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© (all photos above): Peter Stubbs. email peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk. All photos taken December 10, 2012 |
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The Linked Ring Forerunner to 'The London Salon' |
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Members of the Linked Ring These are a few of the photographers who were members of The Linked Ring in the late-19th and early 20th centuries: Henry Peach Robinson 1830-1901 was the founder. He was an English artist and pictorialist photographer, best known for his combination printing, using a number of different negatives to create a single print. He was a regular Exhibitor in Edinburgh winning several Bronze and Silver Medals at The Photographic Society of Scotland's exhibitions between 1858 and 1864, and a Gold Medal at the Edinburgh Photographic Society Exhibition in 1882. Here are three of his combination prints that he submitted to exhibitions in Edinburgh. James Craig Annan 1864-1946 was a Scottish photographer who learnt the Photogravure process in Vienna from its inventor and introduced the process into his family's business, T&R Allen, Glasgow. The photogravures that his company produced included views of the old closes of Glasgow. See the three examples below. Old closes and streets of Glasgow James Craig Annan's father (Thomas) and uncle (John) lived briefly in Rock House, Calton Hill, former home of DO Hill in 1869. John, the lesser known brother, became a professional photographer in Edinburgh until 1890. He was an EPS Member, Exhibitor and Lecturer. Frederick H Evans 1853-1943 was a British architectural photographer, best known for his images of English and French cathedrals Alfred Horsley Hinton 1863-1908 was a landscape photographer, author of several books on photography and editor of The Amateur photographer. Frederick Hollyer 1838-1933 was an English engraver and photogrpaher, best known for his reproductions of paintings and drawings, and for his portraits of literary and artistic figures. Alfred Stieglitz 1864-1946 was an American photographer who promoted photography as an art form through his journal Camera Work. He also had art galleries in New York and was married to painter, Georgia Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe 1853-1941 was a British photographer whose work included making a photographic record of the seaside town of Whitby in Yorkshire. Henry Van der Weyde 1838-1924 was an American born painter and photographer, and a pioneer of the use of electric light in photography. Clarence Hudson White 1871-1925 was a photographer from Ohio who captured the spirit of early 20th century America in his pictorial rural photographs.
Sources for some of the details above: EdinPhoto
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