Author Archives: Sally Paterson

Guest Speaker – Thursday 18 March 2020 Introduction Forough (pronounced foo-roo) is an award-winning portrait and fine art photographer based in Brisbane. Some of Forough’s many awards include the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) Master of Photography received in 2018 and WPPI Master of Photography awarded in 2019. Forough also achieved a Double Master […]

Joshua Holko is an internationally acclaimed polar and sub-polar fine art photographer. He has won numerous awards and been featured in publications including National Geographic. On Thursday 15 April 2021 he presented at the Melbourne Camera Club to VAPS affiliated camera club audiences across Victoria. His talk was entitled: “Antarctica – The Great White Continent”. […]

Thank you to all our Exhibitors for your support in making the fourth annual MCC International Women’s Day Exhibition such a success. And thanks to everyone who voted in the People’s Choice Award… the image with the most votes was ‘Nomad girl, Sahara Desert, Republic of Chad, 2017’ by Mayya Simonova – congratulations Mayya! Mayya has […]

Congratulations to the Melbourne Camera Club members that are semi-finalists in the 2021 AIPP Silver Lining Awards! Life member and past President Robert Groom had four entries short-listed in the Smartphone category. Sally Paterson has made her AIPP debut with a short-listed entry in the Away category. Ruth Woodrow has two short-listed entries in the […]

Kim Tonelli was the MCC Guest Speaker on 1 April 2021.  Kim entertained us with images she made during her heyday.  She was in London throughout the nineties photographing icons of the music scene.  Many of her images were featured in magazines including on the covers of Rolling Stone. In sharing some of her more recent work […]

The Competition Committee has introduced a new category into the program. From next week’s competition (8th April) you will be able to submit images to the new ‘Image Critique’ category to get feedback on your images in a non-competitive format. Photographers at any level of experience can submit 2 images of their choice (any size) […]

The most recent Introduction to Photography course has just finished and we’d like to take this opportunity to welcome the 30-plus participants to the club as full members! During the third workshop of the course the participants get to wander around the University of Melbourne with a brief to photograph the architecture, featuring the old […]

For our March Photowalk we will be heading to Williamstown to wander amongst the historic architecture, gardens and waterfront.  We welcome all photographers – bring along your favourite camera: digital, film, phone, Polaroid etc. All visitors, friends and members of the Melbourne Camera Club are welcome. We will finish with early dinner/drinks at a local pub (optional). Note that dinner […]

As part of Melbourne Camera Club’s Thursday guest speaker program, Ian van der Wolde presented his talk “Ethically Speaking…,” to members and other enthusiasts from VAPS affiliated Clubs across Victoria. Drawing on 35 years of experience in becoming one of Australia foremost commercial photographers with expertise in compliance, Ian provided some important clarifications about the […]

Following the announcement from the Victorian Government that the lockdown restrictions will ease at 11.59pm Wednesday 17 February, the Board would like to advise that the MCC Clubrooms will reopen tomorrow, Thursday 18 February, including the booking system for Studio and Darkroom users. We will be holding this week’s guest speaker event in-person at the […]