"If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money" writes Andrei Tarkovsky in his book “Sculpting in time”. This opinion of his doesn’t need a lot of comments, yet we began our lesson by discussing it. Afterwards we occupied ourselves with the work of Gary Winogrand, who was quite possibly the photographer who enjoyed the process of shooting photos more than any other, especially if we take into consideration the fact that he shot hundreds of thousands of pictures that he never saw printed! Then we relaxed by doing the draw for the clubs Secret Santa which will take place next Sunday as Christmas is drawing closer. We can’t wait for it! After that we got to know the use of various filters like the colour ones on black & white photography, the UV filter, the polarising filter and the neutral density filters. The usual critique...

Because of the holidays for the Carnival and a minor illness, two of meetings were lost... This time, however, we were faithful to our appointment. We first got to know the life and work of Nikos Economopoulos, a photographer who is a member of the famous agency Magnum! Of course, his participation in this is an honour for our country. We even saw a book by the Photographic Circle, the association founded by Platon Rivellis, which also contained his own photographs! Here is an element of his rich biography that isn’t as commonly known! We continued with the critique of the shots taken by our members. We finished the theoretical part of our meeting having learned some facts about the use of filters. Quiz: what colour filter should we use to distinguish blue from green tones in black and white photography? Some filters like the ND (neutral density) & polarizing filters are useful even in the digital age! Taking advantage of the fact that our meeting was in the afternoon, as ...