The Canberra Photographic Society Incorporated is a non-profit
making body incorporated in the ACT under the ACT Associations
Incorporation Act 1991. Association # A00070. Our constitution
may be viewed here.
A new committee is elected annually. There are six office bearers, President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and Public Officer. The AGM may elect up to ten ordinary committee members. The Committee meet monthly and make all executive decisions and exercise control of finances.
Most members interact with the society by participating in some of the fifty odd activities organised by sub-committees each year. The sub-committees are made up of a mixture of elected committee members and volunteers from the wider membership. Each sub-committee has a coordinator or convenor who is the best person to contact for information about that activity.
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Black Forest Light © Ian Copland |
The other major activity we are involved in is exhibitions. Some of these are small displays at fairs or hobby shows while others are professionally run exhibitions. In 2005 we held a small exhibition at the Hawker Primary School Fete for one day last winter. We hired Strathnairn homestead gallery for the month of October for our annual exhibition titled "Fresh".In 2006 an exhibition celebrating 60 years of photography by the Canberra Photographic Society curated by CMAG curators and Society members hung in the large double gallery at Canberra Museum and Gallery from August 5th to November 26th. The exhibition attracted more than 20000 visitors during its four months. In 2008, a display of 30 photographs showed for a week in the display area top level while the annual exhibition will show at Strathnairn through July August as part of VIVID, the National Photography Festival
You're already here! Http://www.canberra-photographic.org.au was launched in March 2006 to make the society easy to find.
Newsletter
"The cassette" is the Society's monthly newsletter. It contains a round up of the activities of the month just passed and the month to follow. it is available for collection at the first meeting of each month. If you do not collect your copy, it is posted to you within a week.
Email list
Sometimes information needs to be passed on more quickly. Most of our members are on our email list for current news and changes to upcomming events. Subscription of the list is available to anyone. You don't have to be a member. Just send an email to Canberra_Photographic@hotmail.com asking to be put on our email list. The list keeps you in touch with changes to meeting schedules or topics, exhibition openings, lectures and events around the whole photographic community. The content guidelines can be viewed here
CPS diary
John Tomley, member & retired inkmaster publishes a diary annually which includes all CPS events. John has also written a windows friendly computer diary which contains the CPS info and allows you to make your own entries to use it as a regular computer diary. The down load is around 10MB total spread over 75 files.
We are an active organization with a lot of activities on the go. Jump in and participate and you'll gain the most from your membership.
