LIFE MEMBERS
1921 - 16th June
Mr. D. Le Souf
1922 - 23rd February
Mr. D'Arcy J. Webster
member SYDNEY CAMERA CIRCLE
1933 - 6th July
Mr. W. Belcher
20th Century
Grace Lock
21st Century
Ian Bock, Barrie Bunning, Peter Chapple
Alan Elliott, Ray Gardini, Robert Groom
Peter Hunter, Clive Luckman, Geoff Muscutt
Bruce Postle, Ken Roberts, Bruce Robertson
John Spring
24th March 2011
Edgar Gatt, Nola Sharp, Tony Taylor
HONORARY MEMBERS
1952
Mr. H. McConnell
Member of the
BALLARAT CAMERA CLUB
GOLD MEDAL and DIPLOMA: |
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1921: Mrs Buggee |
1922: Mr. Tompkinson |
1926: Mr. C.A. Hallam |
1928: Miss E.P. Jennings-Smith |
1931: Mr. J. Thompson |
1932: Mr. J.B. Mortimer |
1933: Miss M.C. Shingleton |
SILVER MEDAL and CERTIFICATE: |
AUSTRALASIAN PHOTO-REVIEW: |
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Melbourne Camera Club
International Exhibition 1960
silver plaque
The Melbourne Camera Club premises, 256 Ferrars Street, South Melbourne.
Photographer - Lyle Fowler, 1891-1969
November - December 2010 Melbourne Camera Club - EXPOSURE
OBITUARY
KEVIN POWER
Past Club Secretary, EXPOSURE Editor and founder of the Club’s initial Digital Photography Group on the Internet known as Passion-for-Pixels
Cancer finally caught up with Kevin and he died Sunday 21st August 2010.
Kevin will be remembered for his ground breaking initiative in late 2000 in forming the Melbourne Camera Club Digital Photography Group as part of the Internet’s Yahoo Groups. Initially it was like an advanced visual bulletin board but eventually transformed and became the PASSIONforPIXELS (P4P) web site that still exists today.
At one stage there were over 10,000 people across the globe registered for the P4P website. Unfortunately Kevin’s health took its toll on his ability to manage the P4P website and the Club Council removed him from this role. I was unhappy with how and why this happened, even though there were compelling technical and health reasons for change. Kevin was Melbourne Camera Club EXPOSURE magazine Editor for seven years between 1994 and 2000. He also took on a Council position (now called the Board of Directors) as Hon. Secretary for several years (1997-99) while he was still working full time for the Premier and Cabinet in Spring St. In 2001 he was the initial Digital Group coordinator. Twice the Club’s Special End of Year “Queenie Gatt award” was made to Kevin for his long Editorship of EXPOSURE and also for his initiative of the Melbourne Camera Club Digital Group on the Internet.
Back in February this year I had a long phone discussion with Kevin on the very day that his Oncologist confirmed that he had terminal cancer and maybe just 4 to 6 months to live. Or as Kevin light-heartedly repeated in subsequent eMails to me; till “..the fat lady sings..”.
He was so matter of fact and accepting of his very close demise that it was a great comfort for me to keep in contact with him. Kevin was getting on with the time he had left putting all his affairs in order and continuing to eMail chat and post photos especially on the Red Bubble website, where current day Club members may know him from.
But his “Passion for Pixels” digital photography approach on the Internet was a crowning legacy to the Melbourne Camera Club and amateur photographers in general.
The Melbourne Camera Club and photography are poorer for not having Kevin and his (our) Digital Photography Web Site. He was a true leader in this field. I always enjoyed his photography and company. He leaves no family that I am aware of.
I will miss him; another great Club member goes to that big Camera Club in the Sky.
VALE - Kevin
written by John Spring
July - August 2011 Melbourne Camera Club - EXPOSURE
OBITUARY
EDGAR GATT
8th June 1922 - 1st July 2011
Members were saddened to hear of the passing on the 1st July of Edgar Gatt, a former President of our club.
Edgar was born in Malta (1922) and educated in Malta and London. He then practiced as a doctor in Malta, UK and Rhodesia before migrating to Australia in 1966. Joining the Melbourne Camera Club in 1975, he was elected to the Council serving in several positions in the 1980-90s and was president in 1994-95. He was a member of the Australian Photographic Society and served on the committee of the Victorian Association of Photographic Societies and as president for 2 years and editor of its newsletter for many years.
Edgar was a member of several other camera clubs including Australian Portfolio Photographic Society and the Royal Photographic Society. He attended many Victorian Association of Photographic Societies and Australian Photographic Society conventions.
Edgar successfully entered club, National and International exhibitions, eventually becoming a well known judge and speaker at camera clubs. For this he was awarded SSVAPS and SSAPS by the Victorian Association of Photographic Societies for services to Victorian Photography.
Edgar was initially a B&W worker but also worked in color transparencies. When digital photography became readily available (meaning giving acceptable results) Edgar took it up and printed his own prints. He held a retrospective exhibition at Melbourne Camera Club in 2007, a one-man exhibition with the Maltese Society and exhibited in many other club exhibitions and also with the Royal Photographic Society.
Edgar was awarded a life membership of Melbourne Camera Club at the club's 120th anniversary in April 2011.
January - February 2013 Melbourne Camera Club - EXPOSURE
CONGRATULATIONS! ALAN ELLIOTT OAM
Photo by Palli Gajree
Saturday January 26th 2013
Medal (OAM) of the ORDER OF AUSTRALIA - General Division
Mr ALAN FREDERICK ELLIOTT
FOR SERVICE TO PHOTOGRAPHY.
Current Club Archivist, Melbourne Camera Club; President, 1969; Member, since 1964; Life Member, since 1989.
Author, A century exposed: one hundred years of the Melbourne Camera Club, 1991.
Member, The Royal Photographic Society, Victorian Chapter, since 1989.
Editor, The Woodbury Papers, 1996. Contributor to Walter Woodbury: A Victorian Study, 2008.
Associate, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK, 1991.
Member, Australian Photographic Collectors Society.
Member, Daguerreian Society, USA.
Member Cast Iron Committee, National Trust of Australia (Victoria); volunteer, for 30 years.
Mentor, Final-year Photography Degree Students, RMIT University.
Lecturer in Photographing History, U3A, 2003-2004.
Author, A Short History of Photography, 2003.
November - December 2013 Melbourne Camera Club - EXPOSURE
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
2013 FENTON MEDAL CITATION FOR ALAN ELLIOTT ARPS
Photo by John Spring
During his 20 year involvement with the History Group of The Society's Victorian (now Australian) Chapter, Alan Elliott has combined The Society's values of education and historical research. He has contributed over 130 articles to the Chapter's newsletter, the RPS Journal and The PhotoHistorian, concerning 19th century photography, with emphasis on the life and achievements of Walter B Woodbury, inventor of the Woodburytype process in 1864, as well as presenting numerous lectures to Chapter meetings.
Alan transcribed and edited The Woodbury Papers: Letters and Documents Held by The Royal Photographic Society (1996), and edited selected extracts under the title Surveying Victoria with William Dawson (2005). He co-authored Walter Woodbury, a Victorian Study (2008), published by the Chapter.
Alan has made many significant contributions to photo-history research, communicating with photo-historians internationally, and is recognized as a world authority on Woodbury.
He received the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to photography earlier this year. Other publications include a history of the Melbourne Camera Club, A Century Exposed (1991), and The Complete Photographer (2013), a biography of the photographer and photo-mechanical printer who brought the Woodburytype process to Australia, Ludovico Hart.
[Editor's note: The Royal Photographic Society Fenton Medal award, established in 1980, is named after Roger Fenton, one of The Society’s founders and then for several years its Honorary Secretary. The award is made to a member or non-member who has made an outstanding contribution to the work of The Royal Photographic Society. Usually, no more than three or four Fenton Medals are awarded each year. Since 1998 this award carries Honorary Life Membership of The Society. Alan was awarded the 2013 Fenton Medal, along with three other recipients - Dr Afzal Ansary ASIS FRPS, Dawn Osborn FRPS and Dr Tim Rudman FRPS - at the RPS Annual Awards ceremony held at the Royal Society in London on 17th September 2013. The Melbourne Camera Club understands Alan is the first Australian to be awarded the Fenton Medal].