Programme Notes

24th April 2025

'Imaging Reality'

Tom Peck LRPS CPAGB

Imaging reality - a history of documentary and street photography. Images show what has happened, don't they? They depict reality, they are 'proof'. Documentary photography gives insight into events and street photography allows us to glimpse other people's behaviour. This talk will take us through the history of documentary/street photography using well known photographs liberally mixed with the author's own photography. We will ask the question: is what we see in the photographs actually reality? Can we trust these 'documentary' photographs?