Duncan Grove awarded Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society!
November 2010. Founded in 1853 “to promote the Art and Science of Photography”, The Royal Photographic Society is the oldest and most august organisation of its kind in the world. It awards three levels of Distinctions that recognise photographic ability – Licentiateship, Associateship and Fellowship.
Duncan’s tennis images won him an Associateship a few years ago and the Society has now announced that, on the strength of a panel of twenty of his Wimbledon 2010 images, Duncan has been awarded the coveted Fellowship.
The RPS’s Distinction Manager Andy Moore comments “The much sought after but notoriously hard-to-gain Fellowship (FRPS) is awarded for exceptional standards of excellence. Fellowship is the highest Distinction of The Royal Photographic Society and recognises original work and outstanding ability in a specialist field. We are delighted to recognise Duncan’s work in this way, especially since as far as we can remember this is the first time that a panel of tennis images has resulted in this Distinction. This achievement reinforces Duncan’s success in recent years of gaining acceptances in five of the last six of the Society’s International Exhibitions. He has also just had the honour of having one of his tennis images published alongside those of luminaries of the photographic world in the Society’s latest publication Portfolio TWO.”
Duncan’s FRPS panel of twenty images can be seen here.
Read the full Press Release here.
Hanging Plan for Duncan Grove's Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society Panel.
Duncan's panel was used as an example of an FRPS panel and presented to some 200 delegates at the RPS's "Think Photography" event, 13&14 Nov 2010. (Photo courtesy of Andy Moore LRPS.)
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A Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society, Duncan Grove FRPS lives and works in Wimbledon, SW London and is a passionate professional photographer who has keenly embraced the latest digital technology. 
Enrico – thank you for your kind words – they make me blush!
Duncan, your sport photography is 2nd to none the Wimbledon shots outstanding congrats and god bless !!!
Thanks Bartosz – kind of you to take the trouble to comment!
Duncan, that’s a very serious stuff
Congratulations !! I do enjoy your photos very very much. Keep it that way next year !!
All the best