Developing Your Style - with Sue Brown

Sue is someone who has been requested so often on Camversation! It's a real pleasure to bring her to the community and share her beautiful creative work with everyone.

Developing Your Style

This is a series on how you can work towards achieving your own style and approaches in photography. More information will follow!

About Sue:

Susan Brown is a highly accomplished and passionate photographer with a career spanning over four decades. Her dedication to the art form is evident in her two Fellowships from the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS), a testament to her exceptional skill and creative vision in both Visual Art and Contemporary & Conceptual photography.

Her work is often described as ethereal and dreamlike, a result of her patient and considered approach. Sue believes in connecting with her environment, allowing her emotional response to guide her lens and imbue her images with a palpable sense of mood and atmosphere. She masterfully "paints with available light," utilising long exposures, particularly in her renowned coastal photography, to reveal the unseen and evoke a sense of wonder.

Susan's talent has been widely recognised through numerous exhibitions in the UK and abroad, including prestigious galleries in London. Her work has also been featured in various publications and she has been commended in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards. Beyond her personal projects, Susan is a dedicated member of the photographic community, actively involved in groups like MAKE Southwest and the Arena Group of Photographers. She is also a co-author of the book "The Coast," further sharing her unique perspective on the natural world.

Sue's biography:

Sue started her photographic journey in 1979 A memorable year. for her realising she was going to be a Mother and anxious not to become a ‘Yummy Mummy’ she looked for a hobby, did a years Darkroom course,  It was like a duck to water. At the end of the of the year a group from the course got together and continued working, joined the RPS and all successfully attained their Licentiateships and joined Bristol Camera Club - the long journey had begun!

From Bristol Sue moved to Milton Keynes where she attained her Associateship of the RPS in 1985 her first Fellowship in 1991 with a panel of Darkroom prints.

She continued in the darkroom until moving to Devon in 2005 - City to Coast and film to digital took her a while to come to terms with.. On arriving in Devon she found there was limited interest in photography so started an RPS Visual Art Group which was very successful and attracted some excellent speakers and consequently good audiences.

Sue enjoys being part of disciplinary groups, learning so much from other art forms is stimulating. She is a Member of Make SouthWest (formerly Guild of Craftsmen), Artsix a multi disciplinary group that exhibit and do ‘Open Studios’ together and also belongs to the Arena Group of Photographers, who have many different genres of work and are exhilarating company to meet with.

She spent 8 years on the Assessment panels at the RPS and Chaired the Visual Art Panel. As she was assessing Fellowships she felt for credibility she should take a second Fellowship in a different discipline to show adaptability. In 2019 she was awarded her 2nd Fellowship in Contemporary/Conceptual and this time with digital work.

In 45 years Sue has strived to be herself and although we are all influenced by others and learn from those we admire, Sue in mindful to learn but apply what she learns to her own style and not to emulate.

Sue loves photography as she considers it a  life long learning experience, always moving on something new to learn.

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