TIME: 7:30pm
DATE: Wed 15th July 2026
VENUE: Kennet Valley Hall
Presenter: Viveca Koh
Website: Viveca Koh Photography

‘From iPhoneography to Fellowship: My Continuing Journey’

My second presentation follows on from my first – ‘Urban Exploration to Fine Art: A Photographic Journey’ – in which I will discuss my use of an iPhone to take photographs, leading up to the separate challenge of attaining Fellowship with The Royal Photographic Society using illustrations from a book of poetry and prose entitled ‘Star Blossom’, in which my images become more abstract and in some cases a little surreal, utilising multiple layers, textures and double exposures, whilst using the written words as inspiration.

Biography

I am a self-taught Fine Art photographer, with a special fascination for small details, for lost, abandoned, poignant and generally broken objects, and also for darkness contrasting with light, both in a physical and emotional sense.

Abandoned buildings are a passion of mine, as are the details of places that attract my eye, the minutiae which collects in hidden corners, the small parts of bigger things that are fascinating in their own right. I enhance many of my photographs with texture layers and overlays, experimenting with digital double exposure,
using old documents that I have collected to add a different dimension to the work in question.

I attained Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society in 2014 in the Visual Art genre, following on from my previous distinctions of ARPS and LRPS.
In 2021 I achieved Fellowship of The Irish Photographic Federation, and in 2024 a second FRPS in the Contemporary genre.

I am an LRPS Panel Member and Visual Art Panel Member, assessing all three levels of RPS distinctions in these categories.

I have exhibited in a number of venues, and many of my photographs are sold via my website as signed numbered Limited Edition Giclée Fine Art prints.