The Exp Group

The Exp Groupis a monthly group devoted to analogue photography and alternative processes.

Hosted byMark Grey, this group allows members and non members to showcase their passion for the photographic negative and photographic print.

Meeting Dates

The Exp Group is held on the first Monday of every month, at 7pm, (except public holidays)

In May, new member Louie started a discussion on instant cameras and instant film and shared their experience of using a recently refurbished Polaroid SX70 , Instax film and Lomo cameras. And Rod Tidnam brought in his Polaroid 350 Land Camera and shot a few pictures on the film that had been in the camera for 30 years!

Frederique Bellec and Tom Jordan recently did a wonderful photogravure workshop with Peter Moseley. At a previous meeting, Fred and Tom will brought prints from that, and some made with other nineteenth-century processes.

MemberMark Greywill present some ideas to take the group forward in the coming year... He writes:

Hello EXP-ers!

In June 2025 I had the opportunity to come up with EXP Group program for the next 12 months.

I tend to join interest groups to develop and improve my woeful photography skills. And think it may be worth planning the monthly meetings to help develop those ideas skills and analog photo-muscles that are atrophying.

To that end: is there anything you might want to know learn or improve?

(We need 12 suggestions to make a year’s program).

Before the meeting on the 2nd can you give your noodle a scratch and come prepared with stuff you would like to do?

The sort of things I’m thinking of are:

improving darkroom techniques

⁠producing cyanotypes

⁠using rangefinders

exposures

⁠etc

Feel free to bring some of yours, if you have them (kallitype, cyanotype, platinum/ palladium, salt prints etc).

We’re hoping to stimulate discussion about what it would take to have facilities available at the club to do some of these processes.

Now that we have a nice big printer capable of producing large digital negatives, maybe not so much…

If you’re interested in these processes, please come along!

We’re looking for ideas, discussion and hopefully volunteers to help make things happen!

For enquiries about this group visit our dedicated page on our website.

Next Meeting: The Negative 1: Monday 7th July 2025 at 7pm

Non-members can attend for a single meeting, but would be expected to become a member of the Club if they wish to continue attending meetings.

For enquiries about this group email us on social@thecameraclub.co.uk

Join In

You can join in by requesting access to the facilities by dropping by the club or giving the club a call to request a tour of the facilities.