Programme Notes

11th December 2025

Photographic Opportunity

Leigh Preston

A lot of the pictures I take come from my background and the environment I grew up in. Ordinary everyday reality, photographs that reflect a sense of nostalgia. Making something out of opportunity - you plan, take the image in the most advantageous light and in the best situation and then make it personal when producing it. Taking it Raw then refining it, just as a Record Producer would do with a song. Each song will have a lyric, instruments are played, but then it's all balanced and cleaned up in production. As a photographer you try to do all of that. Write, play, refine. This show contains a random, but considered set of images, all taken with a reason in mind, covering a number of paths which my photography has taken. My overriding thought is that an image has to convey something. This can be emotion, drama, design or a sense of 'place'. Photography has been to convey something. This can be emotion, drama, design or a sense of 'place'. Photography has been my means of expression for over 40 years. The London Salon of Photography 2017 - A slideshow of some of the selected images with commentary by Leigh Preston and Judith Parry.