Category Archives: MCC News

EoY 2020 PDI Images are now available in the Gallery

Results of the End of Year Competition and Awards held 10 December 2020 – Congratulations to all members who participated in this year’s competitions. Award Recipient Title   Queenie Gatt Trophy Susan Rocco     A Grade Photographer of the Year 2020  Paul Dodd     B Grade Photographer of the Year 2020  Ralph Domino […]

The Queenie Gatt Trophy is a perpetual trophy that is awarded by Charles Gatt in memory of his late mother Queenie Gatt. It is to honour MCC Members for their non-photographic work in support of the Club.   The Board received several nominations from members for this year’s award, and decided the recipient for 2020 […]

With the recent easing of Government restrictions for outdoor gatherings – MCC photowalks are back for a final outing for 2020! Join us for our December photowalk, we will be visiting the city to wander the streets and check out some of the Christmas displays. There will be a photo challenge during the walk, details […]

It is with some satisfaction and a great sense of relief that the Board would like to announce the clubrooms will be reopening from January 18th, 2021 in accordance with Government guidelines. If there is any change to these guidelines, we will notify members as soon as possible. Based on the Government requirement of 2sqm […]

One of the most accomplished travel documentary photographers in Australia today, Nick Rains is driven by a passion for depicting the lives of people and the world they inhabit.  With numerous publications and awards under his belt, Rains has earned prestigious positions as Master Photographer with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, and principal instructor at […]

Ricardo Da Cunha, a leading Australian landscape photographer, and member of The Light Collective, presented an overview of his work and ways of working to MCC members on Thursday 19 November 2020.  Da Cunha began by speaking about how he became a photographer.  As an immigrant from Portugal the young Da Cunha was able to […]

Obituary for Alan Elliott

Obituary for Barry McFarlane    

Adrian Whear is a Melbourne street photographer. In February 2019, he travelled to Bangladesh for two weeks. He documented his travel with artistic storytelling images and this enabled him to give MCC a wonderful presentation. Preliminary research put him in touch with the President of the Bangladesh Photographic Society (BPS) who organised members of the […]