VIGEX INTERNATIONAL PRINT SALON
FORMED 1978
VIGEX is a word derived from VIctoria Geelong EXhibition and is the only current international photographic exhibition conducted in Victoria.
In 1978 the Past-President of the Geelong Camera Club, Leslie James (Jim) Abrahams (1922 - 1987), proposed the idea that Geelong should conduct an International Exhibition.
Jim was a man of vision and determination so he gathered a group of current and past Geelong Camera Club members to work with him and so VIGEX was born.
It was planned as a print only biennial exhibition from the outset and a Chairman was sought from the business community to guide the first organizing committee, it was Phillip A. Gude who took on this role.