Photography News issue 17

Camera clubs Tell us your club’s latest news, email: clubnews@photography-news.co.uk Camera club news If your club has any news that you want to share with the rest of Allow plenty of time. Photography News comes out around the third week of the month. For the next issue, which comes out 16 March, we need words and pictures by 5 March. HOWTO SUBMIT

Write your story on a Word document (400 words maximum) and attach it to an email to clubnews@photography-news.co.uk. In the story please include contact details of the club, exhibition or event – website, meeting time, opening times, whatever is relevant to the story. Images: Yes please, and attach these to the email too. Images should be JPEGs, 2000 pixels on the longest dimension and any colour space. If the story is an exhibition or event, please send a picture from the exhibition (not the publicity poster), the winning image or one of the event. If the picture includes people please identify them on the Word document. Deadline for the next issue: 5March 2015

the world, this is the page for it. Your story might be about your club’s success in a contest, or a member’s personal achievement; it could be about a group outing you had recently or when the annual exhibition is on show. Any news is eligible for inclusion, so club publicity officers please take note of the submission guidelines and get your stories in

EdmontonCamera Club celebrates

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Martin Parr helps mark camera club’s anniversary

from September to June at Millfield House in London’s Silver Street. Membership is open to all, from those taking up the hobby or picking it up again through to those who have enjoyed making and taking images for years. Visitors are always made very welcome.

Marking Club’s 70th anniversary, renowned Magnum photographer Martin Parr is giving a talk, entitled Photobiography, looking at his long career, almost exactly 70 years after the club’s inaugural meeting. That first meeting happened on 5 March 1945 and the talk is on 6 March 2015, at 7.45pm. Tickets cost £11 or £9 for concessions and are available from Millfield Theatre (020 8807 6680). Also among the club’s anniversary celebrations is a public exhibition of members’ work at Forty Hall, Forty Hill, Enfield EN2 9HA. It runs 3-29 March, excluding Mondays (Tuesdays to Fridays 11am-4pm, Saturdays and Sundays 12-4pm). Edmonton Camera Club meets weekly on Monday evenings from 7.45 to 10pm, Edmonton Camera

To celebrate its 20th year, Cotswold Salon, the National Exhibition of Monochrome Photography presented by Cotswold Monochrome, is inviting photographers to submit a monochrome print entry by 29 May 2015. The selectors for the 2015 exhibition are: Barbie Lindsay MPAGB EFIAP FBPE, Russell Lindsay MPAGB EFIAP FBPE and Leigh Preston FRPS MPAGB EFIAP. This is a qualifying exhibition for the British Photographic Exhibition Crown Awards Scheme and has patronage of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain.

π To find out more, go to www.edmontoncameraclub.co.uk, email info@ edmontoncameraclub.co.uk or call the membership/publicity secretary, John McAndrew on 020 8920 6651.

π To find out more and get the entry form, go to cotswold-monochrome.co.uk.

Nantwich Camera Club SPOTLIGHT

bringing in a professional photographer from outside the area, and non-members are very welcome to join us for this. This year we have invited landscape professional Sarah Howard of Image Seen to visit on 31 March (sarahhowardphotography.com). “NCC meets from September to the end of April, weekly at 7.30pm on Tuesday evenings, at Regent’s Park, 129 London Road, Nantwich CW5 6LW. Details can be found at nantwichcameraclub.org.uk.”

“Nantwich CC is a member of the Lancs & Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU),” explains Alison Wood, club secretary. “Our members have a wide range of photographic experience and we have a varied membership, both in age group and subject matter. We aim to be friendly, welcoming and helpful. Our programme includes an excellent range of speakers, competitions and a variety of self-help sessions. We now include a special lecture in the programme,

If you want your club featured in Club Spotlight, write 200 words about your club and why it’s going places, then send the Word document and up to five JPEG images frommembers to clubnews@photography-news.co.uk.

Photography News | Issue 17