Yesterday evening Viveca Koh presented the second special presentation of the season. This was an evening unlike any other, a wide ranging collection of images and explanations, a journey into the world of Viveca road mapped by her photography.

She began with an explanation of how she was a self-taught photographer and told us of her different cameras including her iphone. Her qualifications are impressive; LRPS, ARPS and FRPS and FIPF which clearly show that she is an outstanding photographer.

She immediately moved into the area that is her speciality - UrbEx, urban exploration. She led us through several abandoned mental hospitals and abandoned mortuaries. Crumbling buildings falling into decay and suffering the ravages of weather and time but nevertheless offering opportunities for Viveca to feature her love of the smaller elements she came across and making photographs of these in her, almost trademark, square format. These pictures, always beautifully framed and composed, had the power to induce some unease in the viewer’s mind. So, for example, the carefully photographed body of the desiccated squirrel and the photograph of a fully made bed on an iron bedstead brought the audience up with a start.