Photography entries 2024

SILVER-GILT
ADAM COLE: Urban Street Plants

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Adam works as a freelance video editor and part time gardener in Brockley, South East London. ‘Urban Street Plants’ is a continuing project in-and-around his local neighbourhood, combining his passions for photography and plants. He has an RHS diploma in horticulture and loves creating landscape, street and garden photography, exploring interactions between plants and humans.

GOLD
ANDREA JONES: Gardens Illuminated

RHS medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Andrea has photographed landscapes, gardens and plants professionally for over 25 years. She is as excited about her work now as when first embarking on her long career. What’s more, she feels that her job now has even more responsibility to share and highlight the beauty and fragility of nature as the environment faces even more imminent challenges.

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ANNE MACINTYRE: Anemones Behind the Scenes

RHS medal History: Silver-gilt 2021.
Anne was born in Wales and now lives in Hertfordshire where she grows her own flowers at an allotment, having run out of space in her own garden. She loves the challenge of growing new plants and finds the process of photographing flowers immensely rewarding and enjoyable.

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GOLD
BARRY WEBB: Revealing the Unseen World of Slime Moulds

RHS medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Barry Webb FRPS is a specialist ultra-macro photographer, living in South Buckinghamshire UK. He is fortunate to live close to several ancient woodlands that are sensitively managed in order to maximise their biodiversity. Barry has been recording and creating detailed images of minuscule, ethereal slime mould fruiting bodies, found on decaying material, on the woodland floor.

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BENN R. STOREY: Garden Construct Series

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Benn, now based in London, is from a farming family in Durham, north east England. Growing up in working rural spaces in an agricultural landscape sparked a captivation in the plant life that surrounded him. That fascination persisted after moving to the city where he created an urban garden in which he now grows all subjects of ‘The Garden Construct’ series of his works.

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GOLD
CHRISTINE ADAMS: A Timeless Earthly Paradise Garden

RHS Medal History: Gold: 2022, Silver-gilt: 2023, 2021, 2020, Silver 2020.
Christine is a botanical, garden & landscape photographer and garden historian. She is currently researching the Earthly Paradise Garden. She has spent extended periods in Japan photographing Kyoto’s temple gardens, Hokkaido’s snowscapes and bonsai masterpieces. Christine writes about 17th century English gardens and run tours and courses on English & Japanese gardens.

GOLD
ELAINE DUIGENAN:Whole and In Part

RHS Medal History: First Time exhibitor. Elaine is a photographic artist based in London. She has exhibited internationally and has work in collections that include The V&A and The Museum of Fine Art in Houston. Her work is represented in The USA (East Coast) by Klompching Gallery, New York. Elaine is known for the intense focus on her subjects whether they be objects or plants.

SILVER-GILT
JOHN SHEPHERD: Shepherd Images from the Species Malus domestica

RHS Medal History: Silver-gilt 2019, Gold 2022.
John is a photographer and in this age of digital photography, he’s been drawn into capturing images of natural history specimens observed in Yorkshire Gardens and Wildlife Reserves. He has expanded this interest into the creation of Botanical Style Illustrations where the colours, textures, shape of the plants, many unseen by casual observers, provide the elements to make pleasing compositions.

GOLD
JULIETTE SCOTT: Tulips – Never Too Old To Dance

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
One of Juliette’s greatest joys is selecting which tulip bulb varieties to order for her garden in Northumberland. She grows a real mix so as to ensure a long flowering succession; many of which she cuts to arrange in vases. These tulips from when they burst into flower up until they are wilting are of huge photographic inspiration to her.

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GOLD
KEITH SUREY: Botanical Harmony

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Keith is London based with a passion for the art of photography, exploring new techniques across a variety of genre and seeing the world from a new and different perspectives with a camera. He believes photography is the art of drawing inspiration from seeing.

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SILVER
LIBBY ELLIS: Miraculum

RHS Medal History: 2022 Silver-gilt, 2023 Silver.
Libby Ellis is a fine art photographer who creates black-and-white contemplative portraits of garden-grown flowers. Like early photographers, she relies on sunlight and does not digitally edit her portraits. Libby’s work is exhibited in museums and galleries in the US, UK, and Europe. A series of Cosmos bipinnatus was recently acquired for the permanent collection of Harvard Divinity School.

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LINDA GOWER: Pensthorpe Millennium Garden

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Before retiring from her teaching role, Linda’s main hobby was gardening. Since then, having taken up photography, gardening now comes second! Her favourite photography genres include macro, abstract, architecture, street and all things monochrome. But combining the photography with an interest in gardening in a wonderful garden such as that at Pensthorpe in North Norfolk is always a treat.

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MARK LUNN: The Wood Recyclers

RHS Medal History: Silver-gilt 2022.
Mark lives in the south of France and has extensively explored the region with a focus on its botanical richness. The climate range in the Aude from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees results in a beautiful and diverse flora. He is out most days through the year with his camera capturing this beauty.

GOLD
MELANIE CHALK: Cyanotype Magic in a Summer Garden

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Melanie Chalk is an avid photographer with a keen eye for capturing the essence and intricacies of flowers. Having cultivated a deep appreciation and affinity with plants, through her career as a florist, she has a passion for photographing the delicate marvels of flowers often in captivating close-up as well as adding further creativity in post processing.

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MICHÈLE LAZENBY: Vessels of Light

RHS Medal History: First Time Exhibitor.
Michèle Lazenby is an artist and senior lecturer teaching on the BA and MA Photography programmes at Sheffield Hallam University. Artist’s residencies undertaken include Guapamacátaro Art and Ecology Hacienda, Mexico where she contact-printed cacti. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in various collections including the Wellcome Trust and Dow Jones.

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RICHARD MILTON-WORSSELL: Painshill Park, Surrey

RHS Medal History: First time exhibitor.
Richard is a lifelong photographer, the son and grandson of professional and commercial photographers, who has been taking pictures since he was young. As a geologist and geophysicist, Richard loves recording the world and observing life as he travels. He enjoys taking portraits, exploring new landscapes and gardens, and learning new photographic techniques and styles of photography.

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SHEENA ROGERS: Hebridean Lichens

RHS Medal History: First time exhibitor.
Sheena lives part of the year in Gozo (Malta) and part in the UK. She enjoys the contrast in light, culture, and ecology between the two countries and her photography is endlessly inspired by the differences. She carries a camera everywhere and creates images from the beautiful colours, lines and shapes that she finds in both natural and built environments.

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GOLD
VANDA RALEVSKA: High Tatras: Rising from the Ashes

RHS Medal History: Gold 2023.
Vanda Ralevska is a photographer based in London, UK. In constant search for those fleeting moments of magic that turn our world into something extraordinary, she finds her inspiration in quiet landscapes, and the intimate details that abound in nature. In her images Vanda strives to reflect the atmosphere, feeling, and sheer wonderment that our natural world evokes within us.

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