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Irish Photographic Federation Newsletter

March 2022

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Welcome to the March edition of our Newsletter. What a pleasure it is to once again feel that it is safe to go out and take photographs, to travel to other parts of the country and engage actively in our wonderful pastime. I hope as many as possible of you took advantage of the great weather we had recently, dusted your cameras down and started snapping again. I did, and it has been very enjoyable to experience a little bit of normality once more.
I would still advise people to continue to take basic precautions, including mask wearing in crowded places and on public transport. The experts appear to be saying that this will slow down the increase in the number of Covid cases that we have seen since most restrictions were removed.

As I mentioned last month, the National Club Finals will take place via Zoom on Saturday May 21st. I want to thank Dominic Reddin for taking on the responsibility of organising the event, he is ably assisted by Sheamus O’Donoghue. Dom will be providing further details.
The March Distinction took place on Saturday March 26th and ee are including in this issue a number of the successful images from the session for you all to enjoy. Good imagery inspires us all. Thanks to Bob Morrison and Ita Pentony for organising this.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge the tremendous work of the members of the Distinctions Committee who have worked tirelessly to ensure that distinction assessments were made possible during the lockdown. A big thank you to the assessors and the organisers of the Zoom assessment sessions.

Best wishes,

John Butler, FIPF, ARPS

President
Irish Photographic Federation

What's Inside this Month?

  • Distinctions Assessments Update
  • FIAP Monochrome Biennial - Call for Images
  • National Club Championships 2022
  • FIAP News
  • History of the IPF
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Distinction Assessments Update

Successful Licentiateship Applicants Saturday March 26th

Our most recent distinction sitting took place on Saturday 26th March. There were nine successful applicants for licentiateship. An image from each successful applicant is illustrated below...congratulations to all!

L 1 Sharon Burrell
L 3 Taryn Barling
L 4 John Lambe
L 5 Justin Melia
L 8 John Raferty
L 10 Teresa Devenney
L 12 Lisa Egan
L 13 Derek Lowry
L 15 Thilo Rusche

FIAP Monochrome Biennial

Call for Images
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We are currently preparing Ireland's entry to the FIAP Monochrome Biennial to be held this year.

We are looking for members to send us monochrome images on the theme of 'portraits' which could be considered for inclusion in our entry.

We need the images to be in horizontal (landscape) format. Images should be sized to be 3600 dpi on the longest side and converted to a high quality jpg.

Please send up to 2 images per person to Paul Stanley at:
stanleyp38@gmail.com

The closing date for receipt of entries is 9th April at 12:00 noon.

Many thanks,
Paul Stanley
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National Club Championships

Digital Only 2022

The Irish Photographic Federation held a Special Meeting in February to consider the hosting of the National Club Finals 2022. After great consideration it was agreed that this year’s event would take place via Zoom on Saturday May 21st.

Having deciding to host the event online again this year we are now organising the finer details and will be inviting all affiliated clubs to participate in this event.

For now I can advise you of the following in relation to the entry and the rules of the Club Championships. We will advise you in the early part of April how and where to upload your photographs to participate in this year’s event.

Introduction
  1. The National Club Championship is an inter club competition open to all clubs in good standing with the Federation.
  2. All clubs affiliated to the Federation are eligible to enter, i.e., there are no regional qualifying competitions.
Conditions of Entry
  1. To compete, a club submits a panel of 10 monochrome digital images and a panel of 10 colour digital images. Clubs may also include two additional images per panel to act as substitutes for disqualified images.
  2. The overall award (Sean Casey Memorial Trophy) will be awarded to the club with the highest combined monochrome and colour panel scores. Clubs who choose to enter only one panel will not be eligible to win the overall award.
  3. All photographs shown on a panel must be the work of registered members of the competing club.
  4. A person may not represent more than one club in the IPF, or in NIPA, in any one year.
  5. A maximum of two images from an individual may appear on a panel.
  6. All images used in the competition shall be the original work of the author. Where the Federation requests proof of authorship that proof shall be provided without delay.
  7. Images used in previous National Club Championship are not eligible.
  8. Scoring in the competition shall be on the basis of the official score sheet. Each judge will score independently. Results shall be based on the aggregate scores given by all judges to each competing panel.
  9. The judges’ decision shall be final.
Submission of Entries
  1. Notice of entry with entry form and dates will be confirmed by early April.
  2. On receipt of the completed entry form and payment, the club will receive an email from the co-ordinator with an invite to for each club advising how your images must be uploaded.
  3. There will be an entry fee of €60.00 per club.
  4. Payment will form part of the online entry form process and can be by PayPal or bank transfer. The IPF IBAN will be included in the acknowledgement email, which will follow the completion of the entry form.
  5. All payments by bank transfer should use your club name as the reference.
  6. Images for projected panels should be resized to 3,000 pixels on longest edge, 300 PPI, jpg quality 10.
  7. The IPF reserves the right to publish any image entered in the National Club Championships, with due acknowledgement and without payment of a fee, for the purposes of promoting the event and the IPF. This includes, but is not limited to, use on the IPF website. The copyright of all such images remains with their respective

Results will be presented on Zoom on Saturday May 21st 2022

The Conduct of the National Club Championship
  1. The National Club Championship shall take place under the supervision of the Event Coordinator, or other official appointed by the National Council, and who shall act as the Official Referee.
  2. Judges appointed by the National Council shall adjudicate the National Club Championship. This will typically be three people.
  3. The judges’ decision is final and no discussion of that decision shall be entered into.
  4. It is not permissible to publicly dispute the judges’ decision or comment at any time during the National Club Championship, up to and including the award ceremony. Breach of this rule by a member of a club may lead to disqualification of that club’s entry.
  5. The results of the National Club Championship will be announced via Zoom.
  6. Entry into the competition shall be deemed to be acceptance of the rules of the competition.
  7. All entries must conform to the current specification as defined by FIAP in each category.
General
  1. The IPF reserves the right to publish any image entered in the National Club Championship, without payment of a fee. Copyright of all images remains with the respective authors.
  2. The National Council’s decision in all matters relating to the National Club Championship shall be final.
  3. Where any Club considers that a person or Club is in breach of any of the National Club Championship rules of the National Club Championship, that Club may lodge a formal complaint with the Federation stating the details of the alleged offence, which complaint, to be valid, must be accompanied by a payment of €60 to cover the costs of the investigation into the complaint. If the complaint is upheld, the fee will be returned and the offending Club will be liable for the costs of the investigation, in addition to any other penalty, which may be imposed. Any such complaint must be lodged prior to the commencement of judging. Once judging has begun, the organisers will not entertain any complaints.
  4. Any Club in breach of the rules shall be subject to a penalty as determined by National Council.
  5. It is incumbent on all participating Clubs to ensure that they have adhered to the rules of the competition and all rules shall be enforced on the basis that all competing Clubs and Club members have taken full cognisance of the rules.


Dominic Reddin
Co-ordinator.

FIAP News

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FIAP Distinctions

All applications for 2022 have now been received and are being double checked. We are on schedule to send them to FIAP by the end of March. I will keep those who have applied updated on progress.

FIAP Photo Academy

Pierluigi Rizzato - Poster - Final
Action in the Serengeti
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Pierluigi Rizzato MFIAP EFIAP/d3
Saturday 9th April 2022 at 15:00 London Time
Presented by the FIAP Photo Academy Online Events

Pierluigi Rizzato has been a photographer for over forty years, dedicating great passion and commitment to his work in nature photography. His images rely on a profound understanding of the characteristics of his subjects, which he has acquired through study and research, and patient observation on the field. Pierluigi holds the EFIAP/d3 and MFIAP distinctions and is currently the Director of the FIAP Ethics Service.

In his own words, he says:

I have been photographing for the last 40 years. My subjects are varied but mainly I concentrate on wildlife.

I have travelled all over the world, from Alaska to the Kamchatka, but my preferred area is Africa (more than 80 trips). In particular I love the Serengeti, in northern Tanzania, which I have visited 59 times.

Since the beginning, I have always organized the trips myself. I rent a 4WD car and I am the driver and the guide.

Once I find an interesting animal, family or pride I decide to follow it for many days. In other words, I’m used to live with the chosen animal and this means hours and hours, often several days, of waiting for ….. an event.

In my opinion, the most important issue for a wildlife photographer is knowledge of the subject that he wants to shoot.

And I can improve my knowledge …. living together with the subject.

Very often it happens that I succeed in predicting what will be the behaviour of an animal sometime later. This lets me to decide where to position the car, in such a way to be in the best situation to take pictures.

Please register to attend by filling the form at this link:
https://forms.gle/dtmywBZdkxntdvft6

FIAP Competition in response to the humanitarian crisis in the Ukraine

FIAP has announced this competition and details are available at the link below (also attached in last month's newsletter). Entry to this is free and acceptances and awards will count towards FIAP distinctions.

There are 2 themes:
1. Open
2. “What is Sense of Humanity”

The closing date is 19th May 2022.

You can enter at https://fiap-humanity.fotogenius.es

FIAP have also made a large donation to the UN Refugee Agency on behalf of all photographers.



Paul Stanley
FIAP Liaison Officer for Ireland


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History of the Irish Photographic Federation


Document compiled by Des Clinton from minutes of IPF meeting recorded by Sean Cannon while he was secretary of the IPF.



Photography was becoming a very popular hobby in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and as a result there was a huge increase in the number of photography clubs formed all across the towns and cities of Ireland. Photography clubs near each other would sometimes meet for inter-club events such as competitions and lectures and regions were formed.

In the UK hundreds of photography clubs had been formed and they came together to form the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) to regulate and help clubs, and to run regional and national photography events. It was only a matter of time until Irish photography clubs would form their own national body to regulate the clubs and run regional and national photography club events in Ireland for the clubs.

Federation of Still Photographic Clubs
In 1977 a circular was sent to all known Irish photography clubs calling for the formation of a national federation. The response was most encouraging, with the vast majority of clubs indicating that such a federation was necessary and that they were willing to help and participate. The first meeting of photography clubs / societies was organised for Saturday 19th November 1977 in the Royal Dublin Hotel, O Connell Street, Dublin at 2 PM. Each club was asked to discuss the federation idea and to list possible aims and objectives of such a federation and forward the list of ideas to the meeting organiser for inclusion on the agenda. Each club was asked to send along 2 delegates. The agenda covered: 1) Discussion of clubs’ ideas and suggestions, 2) Format of a federation, 3) Election of officers, 4) Finance, 5) AOB.

At the meeting held in the Royal Dublin Hotel in 1977 there were camera clubs and societies from Bray, Shankill, Monaghan, Limerick, An Oige, Drogheda, Galway, Camera Circle Dublin, PSI Dublin, Dundalk, Dublin Camera Club, Westport, Waterford and Palmerstown.

Des Clinton (Drogheda) was elected chairperson for the meeting. A representative from each club gave details of that club’s activities and the areas in which a federation would be able to help the club. The chairperson then summarised the main ideas put forward by the clubs. Some of the areas in which clubs felt a federation could help clubs were:

1) To organise portfolios of prints and slides that clubs could borrow.
2) To organise seminars.
3) To compile a list of judges and lectures and distribute to clubs.
4) To act as a pressure group for clubs and photography.
5) To organise touring photography exhibitions.
6) To pass on info on photography exhibitions and international salons.
Brian Callagy (Galway) proposed and Sean Cannon (Monaghan) seconded and agreed by the meeting that:
  1. A) A national federation of camera clubs and societies is formed.
  2. B) A working group be set up to meet in Dublin Camera Club premises on 14th Jan 1978 to:
1) To draw up a draft constitution for the Federation.
2) To draw up a list of priorities for the federation and clubs.
3) To organise a follow up meeting to be held on February 11th 1978 in PSI premises on Parnell Square, Dublin. Representatives from all interested clubs to be invited. This meeting to discuss the working group’s recommendations.

At the meeting of the working group on Jan 14th 1978 the following items were agreed:
  1. A draft constitution.
  2. The regionalisation of the federation was discussed but no decision made.
  3. The need for a list of judges and lecturers for the federation clubs.
  4. The agenda for a follow up meeting on 11th Feb 1978.
Minutes of the above meeting on Feb 11th 1978.

The following photography clubs were represented: PSI, Dublin CC, An Oige, Palmerstown, Drogheda, Galway and Monaghan. Sean Cannon chaired the meeting. At this meeting the draft constitution articles were discussed one by one and amended as required. This amended constitution was proposed by Dominic Hester (DCC) and seconded by Joe Dowdall (Drogheda) and was agreed and passed at the meeting.
It was also proposed that the IPF year should start on 1st April 1978 and a meeting of IPF clubs to be arranged for this date at PSI premises in Parnell Square Dublin, to elect a council for the IPF. 1 member from each club wishing to join the Federation was invited to attend.

At this meeting on the 1st April 1978 the election of the IPF council took place. Peter Slattery (Camera circle) proposed the following officers:
  • Des Clinton (Drogheda) for Chairperson.
  • Sean Cannon (Monaghan) for Secretary
  • Joe Mc Cusker (PSI) for treasurer.
This proposal was discussed and seconded by John Thorp. The motion was adopted by those present at the meeting. These council members were authorised to add further council members to fill various positions as they arose. The IPF now had a council to run the organisation.

Sean Cannon subsequently wrote “In my opinion, a most important step in the history of Irish photography was taken om 1st April 1978”. Seventeen months later Sean said “I am convinced the ball is well and truly rolling. It was an uphill climb and we have survived. Let us renew the effort and commitment and the wish expressed when we first met in Dublin in 1977 to further the standards of Irish photography.

On April 1st 1978 the formal birth of the IPF took place at a meeting of delegates from all over Ireland.

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