Weekly MCC News #38 15October2023

Entries are now open for the Club’s annual End of Year Competition. This is a great opportunity to showcase your best Prints and PDIs in various themed sections. You can enter new images or images entered this year in the monthly competitions whether awarded or not.

Entries close midnight Wednesday 1 November. All entries are to be uploaded to the Competition Portal and Prints are to be delivered to the MCC Clubrooms on Thursday 2 November between 7-8pm, or prior to this date by arrangement with the Competition Committee.

There will be a Gallery Exhibition on 2 and 3 December of the EOY Prints, with opening night on Thursday 30 November.

If you are available to man the exhibition over the weekend, please contact the Competition Committee Chair, Ruth Woodrow at ruth.woodrow@melbournecameraclub.org.au. Sessions are from 10am-1pm or 1pm-4pm.

The Awards night will be held on Thursday 7 December. Awards are made for the best work in every section and there are awards for the most successful monthly competition entrant, including Photographer of the Year for both A and B Grade. Following the formal award presentations there will be a social event and time to look at the EOY images in the gallery, all members and family are welcome.

Details and entry forms are available on the Club Competition Page through the link below. 

The following are the Set Subjects for the 2024 Competitions:

• February: Landscape (Landscape, Seascape, Urbanscape)
• March: Nature
• April: Photojournalism
• May: People Portrait
• June: Architecture
• July: Still Life
• August: Abstract
• September: Minimalism
• October: Dominant Single Colour

Congratulations to MCC Member Lesley Bretherton who was awarded the Art Portfolio Category Winner at the 2023 Mosman Photography Awards.

A vacancy has opened in regard to the management of VAPS Badges and Awards for clubs.

This Committee role vacancy will be filled at the upcoming VAPS-Clubs AGM on Sunday 22 October. 

The role consists of coordinating incoming nomination for VAPS Service awards and Year Bar Awards for club members, further information on the link below. 

Current incumbent Margaret Zommers, and Alfred Zommers, will actively assist and support the person/s taking up the role.

Spicers are offering MCC members a discount on selected paper products: 30% on their range of Hahnemuhle sheet paper and a 45% discount on their 17” rolls of paper.

Photography Studies College (PSC) are offering MCC members 20% discount on for all Fine Art Papers – Ilford, Canson, and Hahnemuhle papers.

Photobooks: Momento Pro offer for Club members: once registration is setup, you will have access to Momento Pro services (only open to professional photographers or camera club members), 30% discount on your first order and 10% on all future orders.

Full details of these special offers are on the Resources and Links page in the Members area of the website. 

The Photographic Society of Queensland proudly presents a totally new National Photographic Competition for Creative Photographers: the Zephyr Photographic Awards.

The aim of the awards is to offer an opportunity for creative and innovative photographers to be recognised in a competition focused on showcasing new ideas, techniques and applications within an exclusively photographic contest. The competition is approved by APS. 

Definition: Any image where the artist has demonstrated innovation in photographic expression.

• Entries Close: Sunday 22 October
• Initial Judging: From 24 October
• Final Live Judging: Saturday 4 November
• Results Emailed: Monday 13 November
• Catalogue and Awards Sent: 30 November

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale is well worth a visit to explore the huge number of exhibitions around the town of Ballarat, including some MCC members exhibitions, details below. 

The BIFB was founded in 2005 and attracts significant International and Australian photographers as one of Australia’s pre-eminent photographic festivals. Held every two years it showcases work from domestic and international artists that is new, previously unseen in Australia or contextualised afresh; the Open Program fosters the development of new artists.

MCC Members’ exhibitions:

• Gaye Beal at Il Piccolo Gelato, Link
• Greg Branson at Midtown Cellars and Bar, Link
• Lesley Bretherton at Craig’s Hotel, link
• Des Crossley at Irish Murphy’s, link
• Kaye Linsdell at Kilderkin Distillery, link
• Renee Sterling at Craig’s Hotel, link

LOOK! is an exclusive annual photographic award and exhibition that celebrates work produced by MAPh Members. The exhibition is currently on display in the Atrium Gallery at MAPh.

Congratulations to MCC Members on their successes at the LOOK! Photography Prize:

• Lesley Bretherton: winner of the Portraiture Category with her image of Michael Meszaros Sculptor. 
• Ken Gosbell: winner of the Nature Category with his image ‘Leaf Beetle’
• Harry Clarke and Sally Paterson also have their finalist entries on display at the exhibition

LOOK! MAPh Members’ photography prize
EXHIBITION – ATRIUM GALLERY

Dates: 30 August – 27 November 2023
Opening Hours: Tue–Fri 10–5, Sat–Sun 10–4

Museum of Australian Photography
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill

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MCC does not endorse any competitions/exhibitions that are listed, the content is for informational purposes.