Event: New Members Group – Critique Evening with Colin Miller, Thurs 19 February

Stripes Author – Lindsay Wells

New Members Group Critique Evening
with Colin Miller
Thursday 19^th February 2026 @ 7:30pm

Our next New Members Group meeting is on Thursday 19th February and it’s a critique evening. The point of the critique is to give you the opportunity to show your images and to receive considered feedback on them. There is so much to learn when experienced others cast their eyes on our work and offer a critique.

This New Members Group session is a follow-up to Colin Miller’s January workshop on Exploring the Urban Environment. Colin will be our commentator and he’ll give some constructive feedback on what he thinks works and what might be done differently to make the images even stronger. Colin will also encourage comments from the photographer and discussion from the group.

What do you need to do?
Submit –
– EITHER one image based on three of the four themes Colin presented
– OR a set of three images from one theme. So either way, you submit a total of three images.

Colin’s themes were:
1. Seeing the City as Landscape: Visual Language of Urban Space
2. People in the City: Human Presence and Social Narratives
3. Urban Change: Documenting Transformation, Decay, and Renewal
4. Creative Approaches, experiment and abstraction
If you want to remind yourself of Colin’s workshop or, if you weren’t able to attend, you may find his notes helpful: Colin Miller Notes

General Practicalities
The images will be shown as digital projected images (DPI).
Your images may be colour or black & white.

Preparing your images
Save them as high-res JPG files.
For size, please follow the dimensions recommended for the Club’s main critique evenings: the maximum width is 1920 pixels and the maximum height is 1080 pixels; the minimum height and depth is 900 pixels; the maximum file size is 2MB.
If you don’t understand the Club sizing or don’t have the software to resize your image then send Chris a high-res JPG and he’ll do the rest.

Submitting your images
Please submit your images as attachments to Chris Gil at christopher.gil@gmail.com by midnight on Sunday 15/2/26.

Put NMG Submission in the Subject line and the titles of the images and your name in the email.
Please make sure that the file names match the titles as much as possible.
Chris will reply to you on receipt of an entry image – so if you don’t get a reply it means it hasn’t arrived.

Critique Format
Each image is discussed and is assigned a Gold/Silver/Bronze/Credit by the commentator – in this case Colin Miller. Although it’s tempting to get carried away by awards, it’s the commentary and discussion that are key to learning and improving. Because we’re quite a small group we can be relatively informal and there’s usually plenty of opportunity for you to take part in discussion.

Be sure to arrive promptly for the 7.30pm start.
We will aim to finish up by 9.45 and those who want to can head to Hove Place for a well-deserved drink and more photography chat.

We look forward to seeing you all.
Best Wishes,
The New Members Team

Audrey & Jo