The Welsh Salon of Photography 2025

The 2025 Welsh Salon of Photography is Open for Entry

Entry Closes Soon!

How to Enter: For 2025 we will be utilising an email entry system and an on-line catalogue. Information on how to enter can be found in the documents below. Please ensure to read the entry form in conjunction with the supplementary information and conditions of entry.

Entry form (Word document)               Entry Form (PDF document)

Supplementary Information                 Conditions of Entry

Categories: There will be 3 ‘open’ categories: Colour Prints, Monochrome Prints and PDIs.

Fees: The basic charge per image entered will £2 but with a minimum charge of £6 which will cover up to 3 entries, and a maximum charge of £24 which covers 4 entries in each of the 3 Categories.

Entry Deadline: The date and time of the last (on-line) entry and delivery of Prints to the WPF AGM at Talbot Green at 10am Sunday 2nd March 2025.

Selection: At Talbot Green Community Centre, is 93 Clos Springfield, Talbot Green, Pontyclun, CF72 8FE from 10am on Sunday 23rd March 2025. Free parking is available.

Selectors: For 2025 the selectors will be: Colin Trow-Poole FRPS FIPF MAPGB, Julie Morgan AWPF and Leigh Woolford AWPF EFIAP DPAGB BPE4 Hon. FWPF

Exhibition Venue:  Cynon Valley Museum, Depot Rd, Gadlys, Aberdare. CF44 8DL.

Exhibition Official Opening: 11am on Saturday 3rd May.

Exhibition Opening Dates & Times – The exhibition opens on Saturday 3rd May 2025 and the last full viewing day will be Thursday 29th May. Please note, the museum is open to the public from 9.30am to 3.30pm Tuesday to Saturday. It is closed on Sunday & Monday.  Please be sure to double-check opening/closing details before visiting.

Exhibition parking: You can park for up to two hours free in the adjacent Tesco car park.

Attendance: There is no entry fee to attend either the selection at Talbot Green Community Centre or the exhibition at the Cynon Valley Museum. However, visitors will need to provide their own refreshments. There is a Tesco nearby at both sites.

AWPF Distinction Workshop: This will be held during the exhibition at the Cynon Valley Museum on Saturday 17th May. Contact David Lewis by emailing distinctions@thewpf.co.uk if you wish to be involved.

Please note, due to space limitations and other factors, not all accepted images can be displayed at the exhibition. However, they will all be included and displayed in an eCatalogue which will be published on the WPF website.

Examples of previous eCatalogues can be viewed here.

WPF AGM 2nd March 2025.

Notice is hereby given that the 75th Annual General Meeting of the Welsh Photographic Federation will be held at: Talbot Green Community Centre, CF72 8FE, at 2.30pm on Sunday 2nd March 2025.

The full Notice and invitation was sent to all Club Secretaries and Chairs on 17th January.  The Agenda and accompanying documentation will be sent out to Club Secretaries and Chairs on 17th February 2025.

WPF Newsflash

Are you aware that the WPF produces a newsletter knows as ‘Newsflash’? It is sent out by email when we have news to share. The latest edition from today, 23rd January 2025, can be viewed here. To be added to the circulation list, please email newsflash@thewpf.co.uk

Send your news, information, events, for sale items etc., to newsflash@thewpf.co.uk giving full information and as much notice as possible. Please format your text it so it is easy to copy & paste and  include a photo if you wish. We prefer one photo per item but that is not cast in stone.

Roy Thomas Hon.PAGB, Hon.FWPF

The WPF Executive are very saddened to inform you of the sudden and sad passing of Roy Thomas in Morriston Hospital, on the afternoon of 3rd January 2025.  As a Past President of the WPF and a very well-respected Life Member of Neath & District PS, he will be sadly missed.

Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with his wife Margaret and his family at this time.  May he rest in peace.

Roy’s funeral will be held at St. Matthew’s Church, Dyffryn, Bryncoch, Neath, SA10 7AZ ar 2pm on 23rd January, 2025.

Pat Hollis (Hon.General Secretary)

Roy in March 2024 being presented with a gift for 40 years of service to the Welsh Photographic Federation.

AWPF Applications Invited

The Welsh Photographic Federation is delighted to invite applications for the 2025 Associate of the Welsh Photographic Federation (AWPF) distinction.

This prestigious award is open to a maximum of 25 applicants annually and welcomes photographers from around the world. Achieving the AWPF requires submitting a cohesive panel of 12 images that will be assessed by five highly regarded, experienced photographers.

The WPF is one of the few Federations within the PAGB to offer this highly sought-after distinction. Successful candidates earn the lifelong privilege of using the letters AWPF after their name, a testament to their photographic excellence.

The workshop is on May 17th at Cynon Valley Museum 10 am – 4pm

The assessment will be held on the 16th November.

For more information, please visit the WPF website:
http://mywpf.org/category/awpf-assessments

AWPF E-books

A series of e-books showing the recent succesful AWPF panels can now be seen here.

The same panels and those from previous years can also be seen in traditional gallery format here.

Congratulations once more to all the succesful applicants.

Bridgend Beats the Best

Huge congratulations to Bridgend Bridgend & District CC who won the recent Cwm Rhondda Battle (organised by Rhondda CC) with a total of 76 points. It is great to see a WPF Club finishing ahead of clubs like Smethwick, Bristol, Catchlight, Carluke, Edinburgh and the like.

Joint second were Dublin and Smethwick with 75. Joint fouth on 74 were another WPF Club, Gwynfa along with Bristol and Johannesburg. The final scores can be seen here and for anyone who missed the battle, it can be viewed on Youtube.

The judge was Margaret Salisbury FRPS, MFIAP, FIPF, FSITTP, FSINWP, AWPF, APAGB.

The clubs involved were: Sheffield PS, Camera Club Johannesburg South Africa, Baglan Bay, Dublin CC, Western Valley CC, Hay On Wye CC, Bridgend CC, Visions PS. Aberdeen, Bromsgrove PS, Edinburgh PS, Catchlight (Belfast), Smethwick PS, Exmouth PG, Hermanus PS South Africa, Rhondda CC, Dumfries CC, Tenby CC, Gwynfa CC, Afan Nedd, Bristol CC, Aberdare CC and Carluke CC.