The Photographic Angle

About Us

The Photographic Angle holds free exhibitions that travel across the UK transforming vacant spaces into temporary galleries. The exhibitions showcase the contemporary work from students, graduates and enthusiasts of the art of photography giving the public the chance to explore this fascinating art, occupation and pastime.

For each exhibition, an expert of the art of photography is invited to select a new theme inspired by their own research for which artists can submit work to tour around TPA galleries throughout the UK.Work can be submitted on this website by visiting the 'submit to exhibit' page. New themes are chosen regularly and exhibitions are constantly changing.

Graham Carey LL B, F R S A - Chief Executive Officer

Graham is former property lawyer, having acted for many clients in the worlds of media, art and culture.

He is a keen amateur photographer, enjoying street photography in particular and has travelled extensively pursuing that hobby.

He enjoys live music, live comedy and theatre. He is also a collector of art and photographs.

E: grahamcarey@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Cindy John - Office Finance Manager & Company Secretary

Cindy spent the early part of her career in advertising working for an international business to business publishing company. She then went on and set up her own stunning design magazine for the kitchen & bathroom industry along with a successful awards event.

Cindy joined The Photographic Angle soon after its incorporation, and has worked across all areas within the charity during its development before settling in her current role.

She has an active life away from the office and enjoys crossfit, running and competitive rowing E: admin@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Bryony Purvis - Curator

Bryony grew up mostly in the North-East of the UK, with stints in the U.S.A, Israel, Tanzania and Australia. She studied Fine art at the University of Wales before founding the charity; The Photographic Angle, which still holds all of her time hostage. Her guiding ambition for TPA is in creating an informal space for photography to be freely and openly experienced and discussed.

She loves silent movies, real orange juice, collecting maps, words in books, folk-guitar riffs and various other guitar riffs, growing tomatoes, knitting and occasionally taking pictures on disposable cameras. Bryony recently completed a Masters in Fine art, with the University of Cape Town, having felt upside down in the Northern hemisphere for far too long. E: info@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Antony Riley - Communications Manager

Antony was born to an English dad and a Czech mother, both working in the arts; in fact his whole family are working in the 'art world' in one form or another. However only his wife works professionally in photography. It was when he met her while working in Prague that he began his schooling in photography; that was nine years ago and although he has far from graduated he is a keen student.

Outside of the photographic universe he co-founded a short lived but intense cultural/current affairs newspaper while living in Barcelona, also taught English, most recently at the Britannia Royal Naval College and in Algeria.

His loves are his tatty mixed media notebooks, 'projects', print and online media, music (blue grass to electro), getting outside when he can, discovering there's always more to life, polar bears & tomatoes. E: antony@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Hannah Clegg - Operations Manager

Hannah studied Tourism Management at Cardiff University. Following her graduation, she embarked on a round the world trip which led to a love of travel and meeting new people. On her return to the UK, she worked for several years in the Events and Travel industries gaining some invaluable experience along the way. This has all proved very handy when organising the busy calendar of TPA.

When she is not planning exhibitions, she loves to travel and meet new people. She also enjoys long distance running and socialising with friends. E: hannah@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Lou Griffiths - Exhibitions Administrator

Having trained as a graphic artist at college, she also enjoyed painting. Today murals are her forte in a posturized style having done anything from her son's portrait to Jimi Hendrix. She formerly worked as a manageress of a retail outlet for a local artist for 14 years she then pursued a career as a healthcare nurse. In 2010 she joined the team at The Photographic Angle, her main involvement now being in marketing.

Outside of TPA she loves photography and bass guitar. Running, gym work and swimming to keep fit. Reading and cooking are her ways of relaxing. E: lou@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Stacey Szyperek - Exhibitions Administrator

Stacey grew up in Devon before leaving to study for a degree in French, German & European Studies at the University of Bath. During her course she had the opportunity to spend a year abroad & enrolled at the renowned Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris.

Following graduation, Stacey got a job working at a design magazine where she soon got involved in the editorial, working her way up to the position of Staff Writer. She has been writing for magazines, websites and blogs ever since and in 2009, she started her own blog, which is regularly nominated as one of the top interior design blogs in the UK.

Stacey recently won a blogging competition and was chosen to attend New York Design Week as part of a select group of 15 interior design bloggers from the UK and US. E: stacey@thephotographicangle.co.uk

Mike Travers - Production Logistics Consultant

Mike joined the team back in April 2011. He brings a wealth of experience, having been involved with the organization of some major international events over the last 20 years. Mike's work has included organising ceremonies at two Olympic Games, Pit Stop Regent Street (a major event in the very heart of the capital) and a number of live outdoor classical/rock concerts.

Mike does have a camera on his phone but doesn't know how to use it - so is hoping for a little education himself!

www.travers-live-events.com

Colin Griffith - Ambassador

Colin is TPA's Ambassador for Leeds and the surrounding area.

His uncontrollable desire to organise things has resulted in a very varied work life, ranging from leading expeditions across Africa and Asia to delivering many hundreds of corporate events and entertainments. The events organising work continues, with variety being the spice of life. He never knows what will be coming next. As his area of specialisation is interactive fun and games, this can see him involved one day in a team building event and the next at a lively theme party.

When not working, time is taken up with family, walking in the Yorkshire Dales where he lives and teaching 4x4 off road driving techniques.

Iain McGuire - Ambassador

Iain Mcguire is TPA's Ambassador for the North

Jo Williams - Ambassador

Jo is TPA's Ambassador for the Midlands and the South West.

Jo has lived and breathed events and event organisation all her life which led her to setting up her own successful company over 10 years ago. Jo's company manages UK and Overseas events, from small gala dinners to overseas sales/training conferences for multi-national companies, providing on budget, on schedule events with a refreshing style."It's important to bring that personal touch and unique styles to events and with the backing of a great team anything is possible!"
With a couple of young children family life is always exciting, but there's always time to hit the Ridgeway hills on the mountain bike. Jo always takes on board a large charity bike ride every year with her husband.

Adrian Stone - Ambassador

Adrian Stone is TPA's Ambassador for Peterborough and the surrounding area.

Adrian Stone has judged photographic competitions both nationally and internationally. He works as a mentor and teacher of photographic amateurs, is a photographer for the Royal Society of the Arts and has commissioned permanent photographic exhibitions in two NHS hospitals. He lectures on photography in the East and South East of England and is a part time tutor at Peterborough City College.

Rachel Addis - Ambassador

Rachel is TPA's Ambassador for the South East and London.

Rachel comes from the small village of Caldicot and has grown up loving the outdoors and mountains. It was obvious from a very young age that she was extremely organised and enjoyed nothing more than writing 'to do' lists for all the family. The family had spent every year since she was born camping in France, so this coupled with her love of the outdoors sent her to Coventry University to study Biology and French. Rachels parents were both teachers, so after obtaining her BSc Hons she studied her Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at Cardiff. After her career in teaching it was a natural progression in to planning events.

Since starting in the events sector Rachel has organised events for some of the top FTSE 100 companies and has enjoyed managing events in Cape Town and San Francisco as well as in Europe.

Helen Redfern - Ambassador

Helen started her career in Marketing and Events by successfully gaining the Chartered Institute of Marketing Certificate. She has been fortunate to work for a leading global insurance company in their in-house Events Team for over eleven years. During this period she was responsible for managing and implementing a wide range of high quality and complex events in the UK and Overseas.

She has a real passion for improving Corporate Social Responsibility in the events industry. In 2010 she became Sustainability Champion for an International event she organised in Switzerland by implementing the BS 8901 Event Sustainability Management System and achieving self-certified status.

Her main focus now is on building her own events company, offering bespoke and professional event services to key clients including TPA.

The Photographic Angle (TPA) is a company limited by guarantee, registered with Companies House in London (number 07063537) and is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (number 1135750). TPA advances education for the public benefit, in particular in the art and science of photography and its theory and practice, partly by holding exhibitions of photography freely accessible to the public. .