Kolkata  Photography Exhibition in conjunction with   The Hope Foundation
Thursday 2nd of February – Wednesday 15th of February
Mallow Library,  Mallow co.cork
Four local photographers from North Cork who travelled Kolkata, India, recently  will exhibit a sample of there work in the Mallow Library . The four accomplished photographers, Sean Coleman, Morgan O’Neill, Sean Murphy & David Lavery have all been given extensive access in to the projects that the Hope Foundation work within,  on the streets and slums of Kolkata, ( formally Calcutta ) .
The  exhibition will be opened by Hope foundation Founder – Maureen Forrest on Thursday 2nd February  2012 at 6.00pm at the Mallow Library  and will run until Tuesday 15th February.
The exhibition is hoped to give an insight in to the life and the struggle on the streets of Kolkata. The photographers who are also members of Mallow Camera Club have travelled to Kolkata on numerous occasions between them, to help document the great work carried out by The Hope Foundation.
The Hope Foundation  work to free children and poor families from lives of pain, abuse, poverty and darkness.Living on the streets, children are exposed to horrendous physical and sexual abuse. Those who survive are left to fend for themselves, with no promise of a safe future. They are forced to work from as young as five years of age to earn money for food and so cannot go to school. HOPE works to free them from child labour.
HOPE funds and operates over 60 projects. HOPE reach out to those most forgotten; offering protection, healthcare, nutrition, education, rehabilitation and a family for life
The exhibition is opened to the public for the duration of the exhibition
For further information, please visit www.hopefoundation.ie, email: susan@hopefoundation.ie or contact the office on 021 – 4292990.

The new season kicks of on Monday the 12th of September with our club AGM. This is your opportunity to have your say and cast your vote to decide the new club officers.

It is also a great opportunity to review the club program and see what is planned for the new season.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Mallow Camera Club Brings home The Rose Bowl

Camera Clubs from all over Ireland took part in the Irish Photogrpahic Federations National Clubs Finals held in Athlone this weekend.
The Irish Photographic Federation (I.P.F.) is the umbrella body for amateur photography in Ireland.
The two day event, held at the Athlone Institute of Technology is the biggest competitive event in the amateur photography calendar in
Ireland.  This year the judges travelled from Holland, Crotia and Northern Ireland.

Each club is eligable to enter two panels, one monochrome and one colour with each panel having ten images.    Judging of
the monochrome panels took place on Saturday but final results were not announced until Sunday afternoon following the
judging of the colour images.  Mallow Camera Club took second place in the monchrome section and achieved first place in the
colour section.  As overall winners of the competition they were also awarded the coveted “Rose Bowl”  This is the first time a
club from the Southern Association of Camera Clubs has won “The Rose Bowl” and it is especially significant this year as Mallow
Camera Club celebrates its Silver Jubilee.

There were also a number of individual winners with John Hooton winning a gold medal for the best colour image in the competition,

Morgan O’Neill winning a silver medal   in the colour section and Brid Coakley winning a bronze medal also in the colour section.
John Hooton and John O’Flynn also received an honourable mention in the monochrome section while Brid Coakely and Morgan O’Neill both received honourable
mentions in the colour section.
There was further success for club member, Mark Heffernan who was awarded a Licenteship Distinction from the I.P.F. following judging of
his individual panel.  Congradulations to Mark.
Overall a tremendous weekend for all the members of the club.

More news soon.

 

 

 

March 29th 2011
Venue: St John’s College, Sawmill Street, Cork
Admission: €7.50 , Start: 8pm
www.corkcameragroup.net
Cork Camera Group proudly presents, an evening with renowned photographers Rod Wheelans FIPF MFIAP FRPS & Anne Greiner MPAGB.
This is their only talk in the SACC Region and is not to be missed!
Rod & Anne’s talks are well known for being hugely entertaining & inspiring!
www.corkcameragroup.net
Anne is a very active member of Dumfries Camera Club and her work has contributed significantly to their wide ranging success in national and inter-club competitions. She is one of only two people who have achieved the Credit, Distinction and Master Award of the PAGB. Anne is a PAGB listed judge. She has judged many international exhibitions but never a club competition!
Rod joined the Dumfries Club in 1983 and has twice served as their president. He has been a member of the SPF Executive for more than 25 years and has been SPF president. He joined the PAGB Executive in 1990 and served as president 2005-2007. He has organised and chaired the PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship since its inception in 1997 and the PAGB GB Cup since its inception in 2008 but he considers his most important contribution to be the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit. Rod prepared the first draft of these awards, defining a structure remains little changed to this day. In 1999 he succeeded Ian Platt as the non-voting chairman of the adjudicators.
Rod is also a member of the RPS Associate and Fellowship Panel for Visual Art.
Although Anne & Rod are successful professional photographers with a busy portrait studio – twice MPA Scottish Portrait Photographer of the Year – they have never lost their amateur roots, competing and exhibiting widely. Between them they have nearly 5000 acceptances and over 250 awards in national and international exhibitions.

Morgan O’Neill of the Mallow camera club scooped the top award at the SACC annual competition held in Cahir last Sunday 19th Dec.
Morgans image “Penpal” won the overall best image on the day and also a gold medal for best colour print, he also won a silver medal in the projected image category.
This follows a very successful result in the Celtic Challenge competition held recently in Wales where Morgan also won best overall image.

John Hooton also won a bronze medal in the colour section.

In the Intermediate Section Pakie O’Donoghue  won a silver medal in the colour section for his image “Rock” and a bronze medal for him image “Kerry” and also a bronze medal for his image “Smoking Bird” in the projected class.

Well done Pakie for a class act!!!

Despite the bad weather there was a very strong entry.

The Southern Association of Camera Clubs (SACC) is the region of the Irish photographic Federation (IPF) covering the south of the country from Arklow to Clare.
The SACC is responsible for holding the regional rounds of national competitions, hosting guest lecturers,and providing a means of communication between Clubs in the south of the country.

The competition will be held tomorrow in Kilcoran Lodge hotel, Cahir, Co. Tipperary. Allow extra time to travel to the event. Last enties taken at 11.30am. Competition begins at 1.30pm.

Because of the weather we may have fewer participants, so now might be your chance to do well.

The FIAP clubs world cup results are out with super results for Ireland.

Congratulations to Dundalk who have won the 5th FIAP world cup and to Celbridge who came 3rd,a dream acheivment,

and of course our very own Mallow camera club who came 21st.

Also congrats to Drogheda who came 55th.

The FIAP is an international federation which affiliates as operational members, the national associations of photography. FIAP counts more than 85 national associations in the five continents and represents the benefits of nearly one million individual photographers.

The top clubs all over the world enter this competition and to get these results are just brilliant!!!!Well done all.

http://www.fiap.net/Rworldcup.php?param=5FWC&lang=en

This years Christmas party will be held in the Hibernian Hotel, Main Street, Mallow on Thursday the 16th of December at 8pm. The dress code is casual, but tailcoats are optional.

This year the cost per person is €19.95. This is for a 3 course meal. You may have a 2 courses and a glass of wine for the same price.

We are promised a special guest appearance by Rodney O’Callaghan, no extra fee.

The Christmas party is restricted to members of Mallow Camera Club, their partners, parents, family, friends, enemies, work colleagues or anyone who feels like coming and paying (sorry but no exceptions).

This is a qualifier for the national Print & Projected images competition to be held on the 19th of February 2011 in Athlone IT.
A minium of 50% of the images that enter the competition will qualify for the national finals.
All images must be in a 16inch x 20inch (40.64cm x 50.8cm) mount.
All images that do not adhere to this will not be accepted.
All images must have a backing board. Images with no backing board will not be accepted.

The date is Sunday the 5th of December
The venue is The Park Arms Hotel, Clonmel, Co.Tipperary
Entries will be taken from 10am to 12am
Judging will begin at 2pm
The competition is run in conjuction with the IPF and will adhere strictly to IPF rules.
The SACC AGM will take place between 12am and 1pm.

Click here for competition rules

Click here for entry form

Culture Ireland

Announce

International Photographic Portfolio Reviews

at the Sirius Arts Centre
5 and 6 February 2011
Sirius Arts Centre announces a weekend portfolio review session taking place in Cobh, Ireland on 5 &6 February 2011.  The purpose of this review is to provide both photographers and artists working with photography the opportunity to meet one-on-one with professionals from Europe and Ireland. Reviewers include international and Irish Photographic Curators, Festival Directors and other Arts Professionals.  Through these reviews participants can expect to gain vital feedback on their artistic development, expand their professional networks and exchange ideas.

The invited reviewers are looking for new, emerging talent and works by established artists utilizing photography. Whilst the purpose of the review is not guaranteed to deliver exhibitions, publications, or representation, these are the potential outcomes.

Reviews will take place in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland.

DUE TO LIMITED SPACE, A PORTFOLIO MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION TO BE CHOSEN FOR AVAILABLE REVIEW SLOTS.
(Please see instructions on submitting below).

Potential participants should have a well-developed body of work, or project in progress. It’s important that participants have a clear idea of what they want to gain from their review sessions (i.e. feedback, development of work, editing suggestions, etc.).

Due to space and time limitations, submitted portfolios will initially be reviewed by a curatorial panel whose aim it is to match participants with attending reviewer’s interests and it is expected that not all submitted work will be accepted for review appointments. Neither Sirius Arts Centre, nor the curatorial panel will comment on work not given a review slot.

Reviewers will include:

Jim Casper Editor and Publisher, Lens Culture, Paris France

Krzysztof Candrowicz Director, Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland

April Gertler Director, Picture Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pauline Hadaway Director, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Felix Hoffman Curator, C/O Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Trish Lambe Projects Manager, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland

Celina Lunsford Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany

Matt Packer Curator, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Rui Prata Director, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal

Schedule of Review sessions:

Saturday 5^th February:    11:00am – 1:00pm & 2:00 – 3:30pm

Sunday 6^th February:      11:00am – 1:00pm & 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Each meeting will last 25 minutes and will be timed.

• Completed applications must be received by Sirius Arts Centre no later than Friday 10 December 2010 with a non-refundable submission fee of €10.

HOW TO SUBMIT WORKS:

Application form and information available on the Sirius Arts Centre Website at this link:  http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/index.php/about/71

All portfolios (not exceeding 20 Images) must be submitted on a CD with other requested information (please see application for list). Application materials will not be returned. If selected for a review slot it is strongly suggested to bring actual photographs – see note on the last page regarding this*

Please note that the Sirius Arts Centre is not able to comment work that does not receive a space in the portfolio review.

Submission conditions:

1)      Each applicant’s submitted portfolio must include a €10 processing fee. Cheques or international money orders should be made payable to Sirius Arts Centre, Ltd. Fees are not refundable, regardless if the work is accepted or not.

If the application is successful, accepted participants will be given a list of appointments with times and dates of the meetings. It’s the responsibility of each participant to be available for the dates and times they are given. Selected applicants MUST be available on February 5^th and 6^th.

MEETING TIMES CANNOT BE CHANGED ONCE ASSIGNED.

2)      Participants MAY NOT transfer meeting times or dates to another applicant.

3)      Any travel and accommodation arrangements participants require to attend the portfolio review at Sirius Arts Centre are the sole responsibility of the participant. Sirius is not in a position to facilitate, or fund travel arrangements.

4)      Participants will receive a list of appointments (dates, times and reviewers) after notification of acceptance. Sirius Arts Centre reserves the right to offer a replacement meeting with a different reviewer if the first reviewer assigned is not available. In this case, notification of any changes will be made to the participant as soon as possible.

5)      Please note: Sirius Arts Centre will not sell, trade or rent the personal information submitted in any application to others. If the applicant does not wish to be notified of future photographic events, check the appropriate line on the application form.

6)      TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A PLACE IN THE REVIEWS, PORTFOLIOS MUST ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 4PM FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2010 TO: SIRIUS ARTS CENTRE, THE OLD YACHT CLUB, COBH COUNTY CORK, IRELAND.

The downloadable application form must accompany submitted portfolios along, with all information requested, or they will not be processed. (Forms and information can be found and downloaded here: http://www.siriusartscentre.ie/index.php/about/71)

For further information contact: cobharts@iol.ie

The International Photographic Portfolio Review is being made possible with the support of Culture Ireland.  We also thank the Irish Arts Council and Cork County Council for their ongoing support.