I came to be a member of SCC via a very roundabout route. I volunteered to help Nick Scott with the International around 1998, and found myself raising sponsorship and putting the Catalogue together, starting in 1999. No one was more surprised than I, to find myself ‘promoted’ to Chairman in 2003, when Nick decided to step down, after 25 years of running this wonderful Exhibition, one of the oldest in the world. As you might imagine, this leaves little time for anything else, however :

I shoot slides, which either go to slide libraries for potential sales, or are entered in to international exhibitions around the world. This has become something of a passion, since gaining my first acceptance back in 1989. I obtained my Bronze for the EFIAP distinction in 2005, and now am well on the way to the next target, the Silver.

I am dedicated to working in a little darkened room, and plan to be one of the last ‘wet’ printers, specialising in making fibre prints, which are then invariably toned. Apart from the finished product, there are few things in life as pleasurable as working with traditional materials. Inkjet prints can approximate a resin-coated print from a darkroom, but nothing which comes out of a computer can get anywhere near a fibre print.

Since 1997 I have been running a (modest) commercial studio, producing portraits both for clients and exhibition. Do check out www.glynedmunds.com Further afield, limited editions of some of my fibre prints are available from www.silvershotz.com

Since 1999 I have been a volunteer photographer for the Images of England project, run by English Heritage. The aim of this project is to photograph all 370,000 listed buildings within England. To date, my contribution has been to shoot over 1,000 buildings, mainly in Hampshire and West Sussex. www.imagesofengland.org.uk

When not producing pictures, a lot of my time is taken up with giving talks to camera clubs, or assessing other people’s pictures – always a pleasure. To date this aspect of my photographic life has taken me from Fowey in Cornwall to Ashford in Kent, and from Edinburgh in the north to Johannesburg in South Africa, where Jean and I were guests at the 2001 Congress of the Photographic Society of Southern Africa (PSSA). A wonderful experience.