MCC August Club Evening (AGM, Trophy's & Awards) - Thurs 8th Aug
Thursday, 8 August 2024 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
It's that serious time of the year and then the fun time of the year .....
- AGM - key notes are:
- Select committee (we NEED vounteers)
- Review new constitution
- Review membership yearly subscription
- Any other business
- Trophy's for
- Natual History - Print
- Natural History - Digital
- Landscape/seascape - Print
- Landscape/Seascape - Digital
- SOY - Prints
- SOY - Monochrome
- SOY - Digital
- C, B, A Grade - Most Points for Prints and Digital various trophies
- Acknowegde members who have progressed up a grade
Then it'll be a nice supper and then onto the Monochrome critique for the images we submitted in July.
MCC July Workshop - Thurs 25th July starting at 7pm
Thursday, 25 July 2024 7:00 pm - 9:29 pm
What do you as a member want to do? Please let us know.
If not - we'll cover how to make a triptych image which is for the Nov hand-in.
MCC/NZ and HOW/Wales International competition - Zoom Sat 20th July
Saturday, 20 July 2024 8:30 am - 10:00 am
LIVE zoom session for the results from our judge - Ilan Wittenberg. Even we won't know the results. !!!
Members are encouraged to ask questions and engage during the live zoom session.
Some background about Ilan Wittenberg - our judge.
Wittenberg's first exhibition was held at Auckland’s scenic waterfront. Titled Black, White & Colour, the exhibition featured portraiture, landscape and fine art. During 2015, Wittenberg documented the people in the Old City of Jerusalem. Faces of Jerusalem was exhibited at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery and was featured in f11 Magazine as well as in Art New Zealand and D-Photo Magazine.
The Bare Truth portfolio was exhibited at the 2016 Head On Photo Festival in Sydney as well as a Signature Programme of the 2016 Auckland Festival of Photography. It was featured in multiple news media including STUFF, Our Auckland, TV3 Story, The Wireless and the Sunday Star Times. The Bare Truth collection contains more than 300 portraits.
Ilan won the Portrait category and the Grand Prize at the 2018 Sony Alpha awards. His winning photo was featured on the cover of D-Photo magazine together with a feature story from his trip to Morocco. His solo exhibitions include:
2020: From here to Africa at UXBRIDGE gallery and Head On photo festival. His series titled Scapes was exhibited at The Grey Place gallery as part of the 2020 Auckland Festival of Photography.
2021: Faces of Cairo in Studio One gallery and Head On photo festival.
2022: Faces of Humanity was exhibited at the New Zealand Parliament building.
2024: The Aftermath was exhibited at Auckland Hebrew Congregation.