The latest in our series of Good Picture symposia will be held on Saturday, 14 December 2013. Details of speakers and booking arrangements to be announced.

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Scientists creating images to support their research and photographers making images to record science in all its aspects showing applications of diverse photographic techniques are encouraged to submit images. 100 of the best – selected by scientists, photographers, and those working in the field – will be included in an exhibition that will open in Newcastle in September 2013 as part of the British Science Festival and will then tour the UK and abroad.

Further information can be found at the RPS website.

It brings together three participants’ work: a lifelong quest by the leading photographer Steve Pyke MBE to photograph all of the Apollo Astronauts and Mission team, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Nichola Bruce which chronicles his quest and has many fascinating profiles of the astronauts as they are photographed, and rare archive materials from Peter Fairley’s collection of space artefacts and original NASA photography, all gathered in his years as ITN’s Science correspondent for the Moon Landings.

However, before the exhibition can take place, the funding needed must be raised via personal donations. If you have any interest in supporting this project, see:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1000925937/moonbug-0?ref=live

The deadline for raising the funds is 12 October 2012.

On 10 September 2012, The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with the National Media Museum, will present Steve Sasson: Disruptive Innovation: The Story of the First Digital Camera at London’s Science Museum. Steve Sasson is credited with inventing the digital camera creating the first digital camera prototype in 1975 for the Eastman Kodak Company. In an illustrated and entertaining lecture Steve will be discussing how the concept was demonstrated within Kodak, subsequent technical innovations with megapixel imagers, image compression products in the mid-1980s, and the early commercialization of professional and consumer digital still cameras in the early 1990s. The internal reaction to these developments will be highlighted. It is the first time that Sasson has spoken in public in the United Kingdom.

Monday, 10 September 2012, at 7pm at the Science Museum, Fellows Room, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD. Cost £8. To book see: www.rps.org/sasson

For more information and booking details see the weblink above. Early booking is advised as places are limited.

In addition, Maney have lifted all access restrictions from 1 May to 15 June on 3 years of ISJ content to make it available to you completely free of charge.

This event, which is supported by the RPS as a cooperating society, is likely to be of interest to imaging science group members, many of whom take a great interest in colour. The call for papers is now out.

For more information visit the AIC 2013 website.

High speed imaging for dynamic testing of materials and structures
18–20 November 2013
Institute of Physics, London, UK

Organised jointly by the IOP Applied Physics and Technology Division and DYMAT Association. Co-sponsored by the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM), the RPS Imaging Science Group, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc (SEM).

Further information on the conference can be found at http://aptd.iopconfs.org.

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The award is for “support of academic research and training the next generation of scientists studying the permanence of imaging materials; his work on developing international standards on the permanence and preservation of digital printing materials; his significant contributions to the technical literature; and his long history of volunteer work for the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, the Royal Photographic Society, and the Institute of Physics Printing and Graphics Science Group.”

Well done Alan. We’re all very proud of you.