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News Blog - 14 June

Tonight we have the third round Print Competition Judge: Tom Davie ARPS DPAGB APAGB.
Annual exhibition

It would be nice to see more members attending the opening evening of the Annual Exhibition, a key event in the life of Malden Camera Club.

It’s only a few weeks until the Annual exhibition, I would be most grateful if all those holding trophies or in procession of Trophies that need engraving would kindly return them to me as soon as possible either to my home or at the Club meeting. ( 020 8287 2176 )
We would be grateful for donations for the raffle on the opening evening of the Annual Exhibition. 

Please help publicise the Annual Exhibition by getting people/shops etc  to display the this poster

 Other news.

Kingston Library Photographic Competition closing date 31 July: Details and entry form
 

Photographers Gallery - London

 
The Photographers Gallery has recently re-opened it’s located about in London about 200 metres from Oxford Circus. Entry is free it features an excellent bookshop and Cafe. 
 

I visited the exhibition of photographs by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. He travelled the world to chronicle the effect of oil on all our lives, and to reveal the rarely seen mechanics of its production and distribution. This exhibition shows three sections from Burtynsky’s series Oil: Extraction and Refinement, Transportation and Motor Culture and The End of Oil. The works depict landscapes scarred by the extraction of oil, and the cities and suburban sprawl defined by its use. He also eloquently addresses the coming end of oil, as we face its rising cost and dwindling availability. The prints are huge 6 by 4 feet
 

DEFENCEOF THE PUBLIC REALM 6pm, Monday 25th June 2012
 

Free event
Great Hall, Bishopsgate Institute,
230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH

The privatisation of our public spaces along with arbitrary restrictions and controls - backed up with state of the art monitoring systems - is not only a threat to individual liberty, it also reveals a fundamental democratic deficit for society as a whole.

Who controls the ‘public’ realm? In whose name and for what purpose is this space used? Why is the protester, photographer, skateboarder, rough sleeper and graffiti writer demonised and excluded?
Why are local authorities selling off record amounts of parks, playing fields and allotments to the private sector with little or no oversight from communities and local people?

During the Olympic Games, the biggest mobilisation of military and security forces since the Second World War is to be implemented. How will our freedom to move through and engage in these spaces be monitored and restricted during this time?

Featrured speaker
Marc Vallée, documentary photographer whose work covers the London graffiti scene, anti-skateboarding architecture and political dissent.
 

Full details

Next week
 
Members' Evening: Back to Black / Film Noir Dress in black and bring your camera and flashgun.  A chance to learn, have some fun and socialise

Further details from Perry

MCC News 20 April

Last night saw the second round of the print competition on the set subject of Life on the streets Judge: Tim Morland ARPS.

Winner of the 2012 Brugfina Trophy

Tim Moorland did an excellent job judging the entries commenting on the technical quality, composition and adherence to the set subject. He made particular references to the quality of printing pointing out where improvements could be made.  


I was surprised at the lack of entries in the standard class.  The photographs scoring 10 from both classes were judged and the Brugfina Trophy awarded to the best of these.




Members evening 26 April


In Hughes absence the meeting will be lead by Richard Weston. There will be a series on mini presentations :-

• Enrico - Lenses used in novel ways.
• Fred - Black & white
• John H - Photo Inspirations
• John R - Elementary Elements
• Chris - Macro and Fungi
• Roland - Elements again

My presentation on Black and White will explain the work flow I use produce black and white images using Photoshop and feature  practical demonstrations


Following week 3rd of May


Photojournalism in Afghanistan Alison Baskerville.  Alison has recently been working with a Combat Camera Team in Afghanistan. She shares her images, experiences and thoughts on working as a photographer in challenging situations.




Annual Exhibition


Entry forms are available and have been emailed to members. 


The closing date for entries is 10th of May


These are the Club rules specific to the annual Exhibition taken from the Club website


“Annual Exhibition for prints, slides and digital images

• Competition date(s): first week of July
• Closing date: early May
• Classes: open prints, enprints, open slides and open digital images
• Categories: landscape, nature, pictorial, portrait (prints only) and record

Rules relating to images:

1. image may not be submitted both as print and slide and to be entered in single category only (pictorial if in doubt)
2. nature and record images to be true record, without manipulation and excluding cultivated plant, still life, domestic animal or mounted specimen
3. duplication from previous Annual Exhibition not allowed
4. age of image: maximum 5 years prior to closing date for entries

• Number of images per member: maximum 6 per open class or 2 enprint panels of 3 images on a theme
• Presentation: as for Internal League Competition
• Labelling: as for Internal League Competition except (i) slides to show category on front (ii) class not required
• Judging: entirely in advance by club's selected Exhibition Judge
• Awards: various trophies (6 for open prints, 5 for open slides and 1 for enprints) plus Highly Commended Certificates at judge's discretion”

Strange But True

German garbage men turn dumpster into a pinhole camera

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