An exciting new program has been announced for the coming season and will be unveiled on the night.

The SACC print and slide competition was hosted by the Cork Camera Group on the 16th of March in the Bishopstown GAA Complex.Renowned award- winning photographers Denis Whelehan, Ciaran De Bhal and Brian Hopper from Dundalk judged the competition.

Mallow camera club came to the top winning the three categories, Best Colour Panel, Best Monochrome Panel and Best Projected Panel.

Morgan O’ Neill made a clean sweep at the event winning all three gold medals,Best colour with his image titled ‘Sorry’ which also won Best Colour and Best Overall Image in the Irish photographic Federation’s National print and projected image Finals three weeks previously, and Best Monochrome with his Image ‘Indian sisters’ and Best projected with the image’ Indian Kids’.

The next big event is the National Finals in Athlone where all counties in Ireland will be competing for the Rose Bowl.

'Indian Sisters' by Morgan O'Neill

'Indian Kids' by Morgan O'Neill

Morgan O’ Neill won Best Overall Image and Best Colour Print for his image ‘Sorry’ and was also the recipient of a judges medal for his photo ‘Nature Hunting’ at the recent Irish Photographic federation’s (IPF) National Print and Projected Image finals, in association with Epson.

Brid Coakley was also successful with her image ‘Three Sisters’. It placed third in the colour print category. Brid was also the recipient of a judges’ Medal from judge Nicolas Berlingieri of Argentina, who chose her image ‘Kinard Orange Stone’.

John Hooton won second place in the Mono Print for his photo ‘Kinard Rock’.

In the Intermediate section Neily Curtin won first place in the Mono Section with his photo ‘Blanket of Snow’.

More than 250 people attended the Douglas Hyde Theatre at the Athlone Institute of Technology recently to view the 500 images on display.

There were three different categories in this year’s competition, including colour print, black and white print and projected image.

This years’ judging panel included three judges from Argentina, France, and Britain.
The event saw both professional and amateur photographers from all over Ireland competing in the finals, following regional competitions in the west, south, Dublin and north-east regions.

'SORRY' by Morgan O'Neill

The Camera Club is to be part of an exhibition in Mallow library in the next week or two. If you would like any of your shots to be included in this exhibition please bring them with you next Monday the 8th for consideration.

Tony is a leading Black and White photographer and an expert in digital black and white printing. He trained as a Fine Artist and headed a large design faculty in Dorset for over 20 years. He has won awards for his work in the UK and internationally. He has exhibited at London’s Barbican Gallery and Bradford’s National Museum of Photography.

His first published project, “Rhythms of the Land” featured monochrome landscapes which focused primarily on the structure of the land and the rhythm it creates. The photographs range from the broad sweeping vistas of the North American landscape to the intimate details of the coastline near his Dorset home.

Whilst Tony steadfastly continues to work with scanned film, he warmly embraces the digital revolution. A regular feature writer for various magazines both here in the UK and the US, he has particularly sought to connect traditional darkroom workers with digital alternatives. He has also recognised that working digitally has opened many new avenues which allow the photographer to explore issues that could not have been contemplated using more traditional methods.

On Friday 26th Tony will be doing a lecture and showing some of his own work and on Saturday 27th he will be hosting a workshop where he will go through the process of converting and printing black and white images.

Cost for lecture (open to all) is 7 Euro and tickets are available at the door.
The workshop on Saturday is limited to 30 and must be pre-booked. The cost of the workshop is 25 Euro.
Lecture and workshop booked together 30 Euro.

More information from John Hooton on 087-2516042 or e.mail johnhootonNOSPAM@eircom.net (Remove the “NOSPAM” before emailing him)