Weekly News #02 3February2025

Welcome to the 2025 Monthly Competitions.

Starting from 1 February 2025 and following feedback from the survey and discussions within the Competition Committee, we have made some important changes to the monthly competition rules.  Please make sure you are up to date with all the changes by reading the rules on the website – you can find the Club Competitions page under the Members Menu once you have logged into the website. 

In summary:

• There are new guidelines pertaining to the use of Artificial Intelligence in competitions. In line with all APS competitions generative fill is not allowed on competition images, so please familiarise yourself with the details specified in the new rules.
• B Grade competitors no longer need to mount/matt their prints for the monthly competition.
• The Photographer of the Year award will no longer be based on monthly aggregates. The award will be given to the photographer scoring the highest number of points (print and PDI in all sections) in the End of Year competition. More detail is in the new rules.
• A total of three (3) images can be submitted to any monthly competition (Print and/or PDI): two competition images and one image critique; one competition image and two image critiques or 3 image critiques.

If you have any questions, please contact Lesley Bretherton or any member of the Competition Committee. Email:
mcc-compcommittee@melbournecameraclub.org.au

If you have any prints at the clubrooms from last year’s Competitions or Exhibitions, please kindly collect from the club on Thursday 6 February. 

If you are unable to collect on that date please let us know by email. W

Thank you
MCC Exhibition Committee

MCC is celebrating 2025 International Women’s Day by curating our 7th exhibition of photography from female photographers, to be on display 6-16 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 23 February, 11.59pm
• Print drop off: Thursday 27 February, 6.30-7.30pm (other options also available) 
• Opening event: Thursday 6 March, 7.30pm
• Exhibition dates: 6-16 March (weekends)

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: Rebecca Polonski

Club member, Evan Cooper, is one of the contributing artists for the O UT: EMERGE Group Exhibition at the Brunswick St Gallery (Level 1 & 2, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy).

Evan’s works are multiple exposure photos that explore how beautiful and powerful a smile can be.

Check it out soon. The exhibition runs till Sunday 9th Feb.

MCC Members Offer Railway Hotel, South Melbourne (special offer extended)

Ongoing discounts and special offers for MCC Members – refer to the Resources and Links page in the Members area of the website:

• Lucky Straps 
• Spicers paper products
• Photography Studies College (PSC) 

VAPS NEWSBRIEF

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

If you have any recent competition results or photography exhibitions 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. Deadline Friday evening.

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