CAMBERWELL CAMERA CLUB
FORMED 1953
The Camberwell Camera Club was established as a community organization in 1953. Local residents including John Kinnear, a solicitor and former Mayor of the City of Camberwell, Wilf Broadhead, manager and part-owner of York Camera Centre and Howard Joyce, who had an interest in community activities, conducted an informal meeting, after which an advertisement was placed in the local newspaper inviting residents to a meeting on 23rd November 1953. Ten people attended the meeting and the Club was founded. Under the guidance of John Kinnear, Wilf Broadhead (also President of Melbourne Camera Club and foundation President of Victorian Association of Photographic Societies), and Don Inchley, the new club quickly evolved, with a constitution and officers elected. John Kinnear was elected President, Wilf Broadhead, Vice-President, Frank Nestor Secretary and Don Inchley Treasurer. After three months, the membership had risen to 27 and by the Annual Meeting in November 1954 there were 39 members.
In 1954, the Club became a member of Victorian Association of Photographic Societies and was well represented at the first Victorian Association of Photographic Societies Convention in Healesville in that year.
MEETINGSFor many years, the Club has had two meetings per month, held on the second and fourth Mondays. Club competitions for prints and projected images are held monthly. The Club invites an external photographer to speak at its main monthly meeting and judge our monthly competition.
The Club has a series of active interest groups: Digital, Portrait, Audio-Visual. It also runs regular informal Projected Image Nights, in which members present a body of their personal work.
Twice each month, members are invited to attend mid-week outings to interesting exhibitions and locations, in conjunction with Melbourne Camera Club.
The Club used a room at the Camberwell Branch of the RSL for its meetings from 1985 to 2014. In 2015, the Club started to use a room at the St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell for its meetings, which remains the current meeting venue.
MEMBERSHIPFrom a first year membership of 39, the Club's membership gradually increased to a total of 106 in 1958. Over the following few years it gradually decreased, falling alarmingly to 33 in 2003.
The increased popularity of digital photography saw this number quickly rise again to 72 in 2007 and around 110 in 2018.
OFFICE BEARERS 2009 to 2018
YEAR |
PRESIDENT |
VICE-PRESIDENT |
SECRETARY |
TREASURER |
| 2009 |
Don Weston |
Peter Brady
Bert Hoveling |
Edith Conway |
Lorraine Holden |
| 2010 |
Don Weston |
Peter Brady
Bert Hoveling |
Edith Conway |
Lorraine Holden |
| 2011 |
Rebecca Nicolandos |
Peter Brady
Deborah Mullins |
Edith Conway |
Lorraine Holden |
| 2012 |
Rebecca Nicolandos |
Peter Brady
Ken Spence |
Edith Conway |
Lorraine Holden |
| 2013 |
Rebecca Nicolandos |
Ken Spence |
Wolf Marx |
Don Weston |
| 2014 |
Ken Spence |
Wolf Marx |
Wolf Marx |
Don Weston |
| 2015 |
Ken Spence |
Wolf Marx |
Wolf Marx |
Don Weston |
| 2016 |
Ken Spence |
Wolf Marx |
Wolf Marx |
Don Weston |
| 2017 |
Jim Love |
Wolf Marx |
Fiona Anderson |
Don Weston |
| 2018 |
Jim Love |
Wolf Marx |
Fiona Anderson |
Don Weston |
60th ANNIVERSARYIn 2013, the Club celebrated its 60th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the Club collaborated with the Camberwell Traders Association to hold an exhibition of 120 of our members images in shop windows along Riversdale and Camberwell Roads in the lower Camberwell Junction.
ANNUAL FEATURE SPEAKERIn 2015, the Club initiated an annual feature speaker presentation night. The initial speaker was renowned landscape photographer Peter Eastway. In 2016, award winning architectural photographer John Gollings was our annual speaker, while in 2017, Master photographer Tony Hewitt presented.
SHUTTERBUGSSince 1970, the Club has published a monthly newsletter which is now produced both as a published version and available digitally on the Club's website. The current editor is Phil Hankin, who took over from Matt Moore at the end of 2014.