Weekly MCC News # 42 – 06-November-2022

As part of the Board’s planning for the year ahead, we would like to invite members to participate in a short survey so we can understand more about what members are interested in learning, and contributing to the club. All responses are anonymous. 

The survey will close on Wednesday 30 November. 

The Queenie Gatt Trophy is a perpetual trophy that was awarded by Charles Gatt in memory of his late mother Queenie Gatt. As announced at the time, the Board was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Charles Gatt in a car accident in 2021. 

Nominations are now open for the Queenie Gatt Award for 2022, in special memory of Charles Gatt. The award is to honour MCC Members for their non-photographic work in support of the Club. 

If you would like to nominate a Member for this award (Board members are not eligible), please email President Mark Devaraj with details including reasons why you think that person should be honoured.

If you happen to know any members of the Gatt family, please let us know. 

Email: president@melbournecameraclub.org.au

Nominations close Monday 21 November.

The Competition Committee is recruiting new members.

We are looking for regular Print and PDI competitors or members with intermediate and above experience in photography who would like to help run the monthly competitions. There are also opportunities to assist with inter club and external competitions that the Club is involved in.

Joining a committee at MCC is a fantastic way to contribute to the Club and network with other members.

To express your interest in joining the Competition Committee, or ask any questions, please contact the Competition Committee Chair, Ruth Woodrow at ruth.woodrow@melbournecameraclub.org.au.

MCC Member Mayya Simonova has curated the upcoming Exhibition – Displaced Ukraine. The exhibition shows the history of past times and today’s tragic days of Ukranian displacement in Victoria, as a result of a full-scale Russian invasion in the images by Ukrainian, Russian and Australian photographers.

All MCC Members are very welcome to attend the opening event and visit the exhibition at the MCC Clubrooms during the two weekends in late November.

Opening Event: 2pm, Saturday 19 November
Exhibition dates: 19-20 and 26-27 November 2022
Opening times: 11am to 4pm

MCC Member Mat Hughes is participating at an upcoming exhibition at Bayside Gallery in Brighton.

‘Threshold brings together the disparate practices of senior film maker/animator Dirk de Bruyn, photographer Guy Grabowsky, and photographer/printmaker Mat Hughes. These artists share an interest in constructing photographic and filmic imagery through analogue processes, manually engaging with the processing phase to create images that reveal the artists’ encounter with the materiality of process.’

Exhibition dates: 29 October – 18 December 2022
Gallery hours: Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Weekends 1pm-5pm
Bayside Gallery, cnr Wilson & Carpenter Sts, Brighton

VAPS CONVENTION & EXHIBITION 2023: COLAC

The VAPS Committee is pleased to announce next year’s annual convention will be held 16-18 June 2023. Program and registrations will be released at the end of February.

All monthly issues of VAPS Newsbrief are available online.