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Irish Photographic Federation Newsletter
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Welcome to the January edition of our Newsletter. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and that COVID didn’t have a negative effect on you or your families.
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As the days begin to get longer, more opportunities for photography present themselves to us. I am encouraging you all to get out with your cameras and continue creating images that please you. It is important that you take photographs for yourself, as by doing this you develop your own style alongside your photographic skills.
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The IPF Council will be meeting in January to plan the programme for the year. The March Distinction session will once again be via Zoom. It is also very likely that the National Finals will again be via Zoom.
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Like all of us, I am looking forward to a time when we can physically meet again, for local and national events. We will continue to review the situation regarding COVID and follow the advice of the experts in this area. Our primary concern is to protect the members of our clubs.
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I wish to congratulate Michael Strapec of Blarney who has been awarded a silver medal in the FIAP 2021 World Cup for Clubs. I’d also like to congratulate Drogheda and Malahide for being the top Irish clubs in the competition, with Blarney being only two points behind. It is great to see so many Irish clubs entering the competition and competing with the best in the world.
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Irish Photographic Federation
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What's Inside this Month?
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- Distinction Renewals
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FIAP News & Photo Academy
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- Dublin Camera Club Event - Talking Pictures
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Distinction Renewal 2022
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Reminder emails are currently being sent out to all IPF distinction-holders.
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Please advise IPF if you have changed email address. If you previously had an Eircom email address but have now changed, please advise the IPF of your new email address. Please send your new email details to renewals@irishphoto.ie
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With the exception of those who have paid a lifetime fee, the annual distinction fee for 2022 is now due. Please note that you do not have to wait to receive an email in order to pay your annual fee. Payment can be made now via the IPF website.
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To pay your 2022 fee, please go to the renewal page on the IPF website. We kindly ask that you use PayPal to make your payment but if that is not possible, please select “offline payment” and make your payment by bank transfer to:
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The Irish Photographic Federation Bank Account at Permanent TSB,
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IBAN: IE17IPBS99063900293981
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Please include your name as reference if paying via bank transfer.
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- Standard annual fee: €25
- Seniors' (65+) annual fee: €15
- Lifetime fee: €400
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In all cases, whether making PayPal or offline payment, please go to the renewal page on our website to renew. Use this button to go to the renewal page:
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Payments should be made before the 31st January 2022 to allow continued use of Distinction letters - LIPF, AIPF, FIPF. Automated reminder emails are sent at the start of each year and the payment applies to the calendar year from January 1st to December 31st.
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We wish you a safe and rewarding year in photography in 2022!
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IPF - Distinction Renewals
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To: All clubs & special interest groups (For the attention of the Secretary or Treasurer)
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The new membership year commenced on 1st January 2022 and all clubs and special interest groups who wish to be affiliated to the IPF for 2022 should kindly do so before the 31st of January 2022.
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The affiliation requirements are as follows:
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Each club or group must register online.
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- your club or group contact details
- the appropriate fee by PayPal or by Bank Transfer (IBAN will be emailed as part of the process)
- a copy of the club’s public liability insurance
The IPF Affiliation fee is unchanged from last year and is based on the number of members in each club, as follows:
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- Less that 30 members: €75
- 30 to 50 members: €100
- 51 to 80 members: €125
- More than 80 members: €150
Affiliation gives clubs and their members access to the wide range of services offered by the IPF. The annual fee covers the period from the 1st of January to the 31st of December and is due at the start of January each year. It allows members of paid up clubs access to IPF competitions and only paid up clubs are eligible to enter IPF club competitions. In addition, in order to apply for an IPF distinction as a club member at a reduced rate, your club must be affiliated to the IPF.
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An email is being sent to club contacts as per our most recent contact information; please forward to the appropriate person in your club if you are no longer the contact.
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From 2022, the IPF has introduced a formal system for keeping the IPF up to date with club contact changes during the year. This can be done using the existing 2022 affiliation form to enter changes to contact information as they arise during the year. More on this shortly in a separate communication.
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Once payment has been received, the online affiliation form has been completed in full, and a copy of your club’s insurance uploaded or posted to the Treasurer (see below), your club will be listed on the IPF website as an affiliated club for 2022. This list will be the official register of affiliated clubs for the current year. The website will be updated as required at the end of each month.
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Please have a digital copy of your Club’s Public Liability Insurance to upload as part of filling in the online form.
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In the meantime, may I wish you all a very Safe and Happy New Year.
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FIAP News
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FIAP Colour Biennial 2021
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All the catalogues and certificates of participation have now been sent by post to the participants. This includes the medals for our two winners – A FIAP Gold for Morgan O’Neill and an FPF Gold Medal for John Bermingham.
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Many thanks to everyone who allowed us to use their images in our entry to the Biennial.
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We are now coming to the time of year for people to start preparing their submissions for FIAP distinctions. All the information you require can be found on the IPF website at this address: https://irishphoto.ie/fiap/fiap-distinctions/
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Applications opened on the IPF website in November 2021 and all files, images etc. must be with me by the end of February 2022.
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Contact me via the contact page on the IPF website if you have any questions or need access to the relevant entry forms.
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FIAP Wildlife Competition
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Details are out about a new FIAP Wildlife Competition open to photographers from around the world. There are two sections
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- Animal Behaviour
- Animal or Animals in their environment
There are some points to note
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- Entries must comply with the new 2022 FIAP Wildlife Definition
- Colour photos only
- Free entry – participation is without entry fees
- The competition has FIAP Patronage and acceptances can be counted for FIAP Distinctions
- The competition is open to everyone
- The closing date is 1st February 2022
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The FIAP Best Author will be invited to the next FIAP Congress or FIAP Photo Meeting with flight, transport and hotel costs paid.
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There will also be a further 36 awards.
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FIAP Photo Academy
Shaped by History
Limerick Milk Market – A Journey in Time
Saturday 22nd January, 2022 at 14:00
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The FIAP Photo Academy Online Events is pleased to announce a presentation from the renowned Irish photographer Gerry Andrews EFIAP FIPF ARPS on Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 14:00 (2pm) London Time
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Gerry Andrews is a Dublin-based photographer whose passion for photography started when he was a 19 year old working at the Limerick Leader Newspaper. In the early 70s he embarked on a project to capture the changing face of Ireland by making a photographic record of the people that frequented the Milk Market in his native city, Limerick. In recent years his photographs of the Milk Market and Limerick in the 70s, have received national and international acclaim. His photographic exhibition ‘Shaped by History’ attracted a total of 75,000 visitors, when images from that work were exhibited at the Hunt Museum, Limerick and at the National Photographic Archive Gallery in Dublin. His book ‘Shaped by History’ was a sell out and awarded Book of the Year at the Irish Print Awards in 2012.
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Fifty years later, in 2021, Andrews returned to the Limerick Milk Market to chart progress since the initial project in the early 70s. His combination of old and new images are a unique social documentary of a developing Ireland, capturing the nation’s transition from austerity to prosperity, through the lens of one photographer, at one market, in the midst of a global pandemic.
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He was awarded a Fellowship by the Irish Photographic Federation in 2012, his EFIAP in 2013 and an ARPS also in 2013. He has held six solo exhibitions and his work has featured on a number of television programmes about his photography. He has produced two books ‘Shaped by History’ and ‘Faces & Places’. He is a past president of the Dublin Camera Club, a well-known judge, a sought after guest lecturer and a member of the IPF Distinction Assessment Panel.
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'Shaped by History' is an intimate environmental portrait of the people who represent Ireland’s past and those who symbolise its vibrant future; captured by one photographer, in one market, 50 years apart.
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Please register to attend by filling the form at this link:
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FIAP Liaison Officer for Ireland
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Dublin Camera Club Event
Talking Pictures
Chris Palmer FRPS EFIAP DPAGB APAGB
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Presented by the Dublin Camera Club on Tuesday 1st February 2022 @ 8pm
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The title – Talking Pictures – alludes to the fact that Chris will certainly be talking about his pictures, but in addition he likes to think that the images “talk” or communicate with the viewer.
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Emphasising his own philosophy of getting an image right when it is shot, he will discuss basic camera skills, camera craft and the way he photographs when on location. He will relate the actual taking experiences and will cover landscape, urban, monochrome and beach photography.
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Chris gained an Associateship of the RPS with darkroom monochrome prints and a Fellowship with digital prints. He assesses on the RPS Visual Art (A & F) panel and provides advice at distinction advisory days.
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He is a busy PAGB judge and a popular lecturer. He is also a member of the prestigious London Salon of Photography.
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The presentation is free to members of the Dublin Camera Club.
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