Mallow Camera Club

As a follow up to the highly successful lecture by Joe Cornish last October I am now delighted to announce that Mr. Tony Worobiec will be doing a lecture and workshop in Mallow on the weekend 26th/27th February 2010.

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)

Brian Hopper and Ciaran DeBhal from Dundalk Photographic Society paid a very successful visit to Mallow Camera Club on Friday night last, 07 November.  Brian and Ciaran made the long journey from Dundalk to present their superb images to keen photographers from Mallow and surrounding clubs.  The audience were regaled with stories of their photographic exploits.  Both photographers have travelled extensively and they shoot a wide range of subject matter.

There was good banter between the speakers and the audience, and the quality of the images and the commitment of both photographes to their art came through on the night.  A good night was had by all.

Ciaran DeBhal, John Hooton, Paddy Fennessy, Bríd Coakley, and Brian Hopper

The 2008 photographer of the year took place for Mallow Camera Club on Monday 19th of May. There were 298 entries from over twenty members of the club. The competition was based on the top five scoring images from each member.

This year the competition was judged by three members from Cork Camera Group, Vincent Kelly, Martin Duggan, & Danny Foley. The competition was open to four different forms of media, Colour Print, Mono Print, Digital Projection & Colour Slide. Awards were for Overall Photographer of the year, Novice Photographer of the Year & Mono Photographer of the year. Members were allowed to enter up to 15 images of any media but only their five highest scoring images were counted for the final tally.

Of the 298 images submitted, over 50%  were for digital projection. Club Chairman John Hogan, thanked the judges and complimented them on their consistent scoring throughout the night. David Lavery, Competition Secretary thanked all for their help in organising the event.

When the final count was done the results were as follows :

Photographer of the year

1. SEAN MURPHY 134 PTS
2. JOHN HOOTON 132 PTS
3. MORGAN O’NEILL 132 PTS

NOVICE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

1. JOHN FLYNN 110PTS
2. BARRY LINEHAN 105 PTS
3. PADDY FENNESSY 103 PTS

MONO PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

1. JOHN HOOTON 80 PTS
2. BRÍD COAKLEY 71 PTS
3. MORGAN O’NEILL 67 PTS

Well done to all members who participated in the competition.

The club is now in recess until September 2008.

The 2008 Irish photographic finals took place over the weekend, Thurles Camera Club hosted the event at the Tipperary Institute which proved to be a very good venue. Mallow Camera Club qualified for the event earlier this year by winning the SACC competion. The club displayed two panels, a monochrome and a colour print panel which was made up of ten images in each panel.
Of the 19 finalist Mallow Camera Club finished in fifth place overall behind the winners Dundalk Photographic Society. Mallow’s Monochrome panel finished in third place, while the colour panel finished in a disappointing ninth place. This result came as a surprise to many as Mallow have always been very strong in the colour print section.

The highlight of the final day was Sean Murphy’s silver medal in the Monochrome print section. The three distinguished judges from Northern Ireland, the UK & Turkey spoke highly of Sean’s image which portrayed difficult rural living conditions in Ireland.
All panels will be displayed at the next club meeting on 28 April 2008.

On Monday April 14th Donncha O Caoimh will present a educational Tutorial evening. Donncha will inform fellow club members of useful websites that will help many photographers.

Reminder for all club members, the upcoming Photographer of the year is fast approaching. This is the first year that the club has introduced a closing date. All mono prints, colour prints, digital files and slides must be delivered to David Lavery competition secretary by Tuesday 13th may. Please note images accepted after this date may not be guaranteed a place in the final. Images accepted on the night of the competition (May 19) will not be accepted.

Max Print size is 16inx12in
Max mount size is 16inx20in
Smallest size print is 5inx7in

Please note it is not compulsory to have images mounted. Images used in previous photographer of the year competitions are not allowed. Images that have been commissioned (been paid to carry out) are also exempt from the competition.

The next big event is the National Photographic Finals Thurles Co.Tiopperary april 26/27th

Mallow Camera Club members Denise O’Connor and Seán O’Riordan travelled to South Africa last November to work with the Niall Mellon Township Trust. Both worked extremely hard but managed to take some photographs to document their experiences on the trip. They presented their shots to Mallow CC on Monday night last, 18th February, which generated a lot of debate and interest in the project.

Seán has produced photobooks of his images and supplied photographs to the trust for use in publicity, Christmas cards etc.

Niall Mellon is travelling to New York this weekend to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu. During their meeting Niall will present the Archbishop with one of Seán’s photographs (above) overprinted with the pledge to build 7,000 homes in 2008.

Congratulation and well done to Seán.

Click for more information on the Niall Mellon Township trust.

Seán is travelling to South Africa again later this year. If you want to sponsor him he can be contacted at 086 2579830 or via email at sean@NOSPAMrota.ie (remove “NOSPAM” to email him).

All photographs in Mallow Camera Club’s Annual Exhibition held last September were donated by members for sale in aid of the Niall Mellon Trust, raising over €3,000 – Approximately the cost of building one house.