| I gained the Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1973, after joining the Society the previous year. The distinctions include Licenciate (introduced in the mid 1970s), Associate and Fellow. Members can apply in one of a number of categories – such as Pictorial (which I did), Applied, Audio Visual, and so on. An RPS distinction is not a qualification, of course, but I guess it indicates a certain standard. More importantly, it gave me something to work for and helped me become more critical of my own work. Rightly or wrongly, my ARPS is something I'm very proud of. / more...
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 At that time, gaining the Associateship in the Pictorial section involved submitting a panel of 12 prints or 18 colour slides, which were required to show ‘variety of subject matter’ and ‘evidence of a distinct photographic style’. My panel of prints is shown above; all of them were nominal 20" x 16" flush-mounted prints (but not the thin ones, obviously). I’m sure I wouldn’t succeed with the same prints today as standards have risen and styles have changed. But some of them did quite well for me in exhibitions at the time (click the thumbnails for the details).
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