Weekly News #01 28January2024

MCC is celebrating 2024 International Women’s Day by curating our 6th exhibition of photography from female photographers, to be on display 8–10 March in our clubrooms.

We are excited about the opportunity to bring together women in photography and explore our theme ‘The Female Gaze’. We encourage and invite all women photographers from the Club to exhibit your images alongside photographers from outside the club. If you are unsure about printing or matting your images, please get in touch and we can help.

For full information about the Exhibition and the Terms and Conditions: Click here.

Important Dates

• Closing date: Sunday 25 February 2023, 11.59pm
• Print drop off: Thursday 29 February, 6-8pm
• Opening event: Thursday 7 March, 7.30pm
• Exhibition dates: 8–10 March

REGISTER HERE – you are invited to register your interest now to secure a place in the exhibition, and update your print titles closer to the closing date.

Image: Frances Egan

Camberwell Camera Club is again coordinating the Interclub Nature Competition, previously known as The Glennie, for participating Australian clubs.

We would like to invite you to enter your best nature photos for consideration as part of the MCC club entry.

There are seven categories:

• Landscape/Seascape
• Botany
• Birds
• Mammals
• Invertebrates
• Other Nature
• Urban Wildlife

Please read the definitions under Terms & Conditions carefully before submitting your images.

Entries can be uploaded via the Club Competitions page on the MCC website – upload link.

Cut off for submission is midnight on 3 March 2024

Only one image will be selected per MCC member for judging and a maximum of ten images for the club.

The judge will be Georgina Steytler – an outstanding nature photographer and author based in Western Australia.

Awards night will take place on Monday 13 May by Zoom – details to follow.

Image: Whistling Duck in Flight – Kyffin Lewis (Highly Commended – Open A Grade PDI – Oct 2023)

Congratulations to the following members for their recent success in the International Monochrome Photography Awards:

Ralph Domino:

• Two Honourable Mentions in Architectural category
• One Honourable Mention in Abstract Category + published in book

Paul Dodd:

• Fashion/Beauty; Honorable Mention + published in book; Savannah #1
• Nude; Honorable Mention + published in book; Embodied Enchantment – Opus
• Nude; Honorable Mention + published in book; Mia #1
• Portrait; Honorable Mention + published in book; Lockdown Self-portrait

Image: Ralph Domino, “Premier Tower, Melbourne”

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), 15% discount on all orders.

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

Latest Issue

Monthly issues of VAPS Newsbrief are available online, published at the start of each month. 

Featuring paintings, sculptures and photographs from four award-winning Bayside artists – including photographer and MCC Member Peter Harlow.

Artists exhibiting:

• Peter Harlow
• Meg Hodge
• Mandi Oakes
• Louise Richards-Green

Location: Chiaroscuro Art Gallery
Level 1, 44 Edith Street, Beaumaris

Dates: 3-4 February 2024, 10am-4pm

Evan Cooper : A multiple exposure photographic exploration of the male form

Exhibition dates: 27 January to 18 February

Photographer, Evan Cooper, uses multiple-exposures to explore the possibilities of photography as an art form. Part photographic exhibition, part installation. Viewers can wander the space on their own path, to see and experience the works in their own unique way.

Wolfhound Gallery is located above the Wolfhound on Brunswick Bar, Level 1, 386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.
Admission is free.

If you have any recent results you would like to share to inspire other members in their photography journey, please email the Newsletter team so the website page can be updated and shared in the Weekly News.

To have your nomination included in the Sunday newsletter please submit it before the end of the preceding Friday with details of the Competition Name, Award, Category (if any) and image title. If possible, please also send the image or a link to the image, award or gallery.

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