Activities |
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Presenter |
Content |
January 2026 |
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| Date: Monday 26 January 2026 | Selby Markham | All | How do I approach my photography? What is my preferred formal/informal process, camera/format?
Introduce film swap, Richmond Power Plant activities. |
February 2026 |
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| Film swap: 1 February | Santina Velo | Santina Velo | Start of film swap activity. |
| Workshop: 14 February | Selby Markham | Selby Markham | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Coffee – an Eco processing workshop
The workshop will focus on ways in which we can utilise natural ingredients in processing film and paper. Participants will brew up various soups that will partly replace conventional chemicals. These will then be applied in the darkroom and allow participants to evaluate the value of natural ingredients in their photography practice. |
| Course: 21-22 February | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Monthly Meeting: Monday 23 February | Adelaide Bernard | Selby and all | How to use filters and how they impact black and white images |
| Excursion: 28 February | Peter Tredrea | Newport Railway Museum (12 noon till 5 pm). The Museum is easy to get to, located at 26 Champion Rd Newport, only a few minutes from the Melbourne Road exit of the Westgate Freeway. | |
March 2026 |
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| Course: 7-8 March | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Workshop: Date 15 March | Shane Booth / Selby Markham | Shane Booth / Selby Markham | B&W Reversal processing:
In this workshop, participants will bring an exposed roll of B&W film (Preferably low ISO film from major brands, such as Ilford or Kodak 50-100 ISO film). During the workshop each participant will develop their film with a special process that results in B&W transparencies (i.e. B&W slides). |
| Course: 21-22 March | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Monthly Meeting: Monday 23 March 2026 | Santina Velo | Russell Mason | Street photography |
| Activity: Film swap 23 March | Santina Velo | Santina Velo | Swap date at March meeting or as members arrange |
| Excursion: TBA | |||
April 2026 |
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| Course: 11-12 April | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Date: Monday 27 April 2026 | ?? | Shane Booth Russell Mason | B&W printing / Art printing / Papers and their effects on images/dodging and burning |
| Workshop 26:April 2026 | Richard Mathews, Jon Hogan | Richard Mathews, Jon Hogan | Pinhole day workshop |
| Activity: Film swap | Santina Velo | Santina Velo | End of film swap activity |
| Excursion: TBA | |||
May 2026 |
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| Course: 9-10 May | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Course: 23-24 May | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Date: Monday 25 May 2026 | Max Sharples | All members | Using unusual photo processes, techniques or tools to make your art |
| Excursion: TBA | |||
| Workshop: Salt printing Date TBA | Andrew Lang | Andrew Lang | Salt printing across Saturday and Sunday |
June 2026 |
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| Course: 13-14 June | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Date: Monday 22 June 2026 | Selby Markham | Exhibition team | Q+A for exhibition What can be entered Issues producing prints |
| Excursion: TBA | |||
July 2026 |
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| Course: 18-19 July | Shane Booth | Film Developing and Printing Course – Darkroom | |
| Date: Monday 27 July 2026 | Peter Tredrea | Russell Spence | History of photography using MCC archive
Presentation of examples from Swap activity |
| Exhibition entries open: 10 July 2026 | |||
| Excursion: TBA | |||
| Workshop: E6 processing Date TBA | ?? | ?? | E6 processing |
August 2026 |
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| Date: Monday 24 August 2026 | Santina Velo | Zo Damage | NoteWorthy – solo exhibition that explores Melbourne’s live music culture through a series of abstract monoprints |
| Exhibition entries close: 10 August 2026 | |||
| Excursion: TBA | |||
September 2026 |
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| Exhibition: 12-13 September 2026 | Selby Markham | Selby Ray Andrew | Mounting, matting, framing and hanging prints for exhibition |
| Exhibition: Opening night Thursday 17 September | TBA | All exhibitors | Opening nigh prep for layout of room, catering, cleaning up. |
| Exhibition: Public access 19, 20, 26, 27 September 2026 | TBA | All exhibitors | All exhibitors to share Gallery supervision |
| Date: Monday 28 September 2026 | Santina Velo | All exhibitors | Exhibition exhibitors talk about their work. In the Gallery. |
| Workshop: Cyanotype Date 26 September 2026 | Santina Velo Wendy Currie Gaye Beal | Santina Velo Wendy Currie Gaye Beal | Cyanotype workshop |
October 2026 |
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| Date: Monday 26 October 2026 | Greg Branson | Morganna Magee |
Morganna Magee is a photographer and educator working on the unceded land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Her photographic practice examines human relationships with the natural world through innovative applications of traditional techniques.
In 2022 she published her debut monograph “Extraordinary Experiences” with Tall Poppy Press. The book was nominated for Australian Photobook of the Year, and was listed as one of the photobooks of 2022 by both Gabriela Cendoya and Robin Titchner.
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| Workshop: Date TBA | Santina Velo | Renato Colangelo | In camera lighting effects |
| Excursion: TBA | |||
November 2026 |
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| Date: Monday 23 November 2026 | Adelaide Bernard | All members | Plans for 2027 personal projects EOY social. |
| Excursion: TBA |