Mallow Camera Club

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.

Photography entries are an important part of the indoor section of Clonakilty Annual Agricultural Show.
This year photography once again proved to be very popular with more than two hundred entries divided between fifteen classes some being for juniors.
Four members of the Mallow Camera Club featured prize winners in the four classes that were open to Camera Club members.

Landscape / Seascape:
1st John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
2nd Brid Coakley Mallow Camera Club
3rd John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
Birds or Animals:
1st Paddy Feen Mallow Camera Club
2nd Cora McCarthy Dunmanway
3rd Jeremy Kingston Mallow Camera Club
Nature:
1st Jeremy Kingston Mallow Camera Club
2nd Jeremy Kingston Mallow Camera Club
3rd Paddy Feen Mallow Camera Club
Black & White:
1st John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
2nd John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
3rd Brid Coakley Mallow Camera Club
Best Overall Colour:
John Hooton Mallow Camera Club
Best Overall Black & White:
John Hooton Mallow Camera Club