A 70 year old photo opportunity

I would be a rare politician indeed if I didn't have an eye for a good photo opportunity. And what better photo op for a local

politician could there be than Hampstead Photographic Society's 70th anniversary exhibition, which their Chair, David Reed (pictured), kindly invited me to open at Swiss Cottage Library on Friday night!?

My day job is with a company that pioneered digital effects back in the early 198os, but what I found really refreshing about the Hampstead Photographic Society exhibition was the lack of manipulated photos. There are so many software packages around now that allow you to create "art" from images. Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather admire a well composed, unmanipulated image. And that's what you'll see at this exhibition. At the Swiss Cottage Library until 15 April.

Photo reproduced by kind permission of Harold Ludman.