Watch the PAGB Audio Visual Awards for Photographic Merit on ZOOM on 20th September at 9.30am. Click the here to be connected to the zoom meeting.
52nd Smethwick International
52nd Smethwick International Open for Entries
Closing Date: 26th October 2026 (prints should arrive by 30th Oct). Patronage: FIAP 2026/318, GPU L260072, PAGB 2027-007
3 Print Sections: Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature. (Prints can be forwarded to Southampton international.
3 Projected Image Sections: Open Colour, Open Monochrome, Nature,
150 Medals and Ribbons to be won
On-line entry system NOW OPEN at www.smethwickinternational.com
Online Catalogue to all entrants. A4 printed colour catalogue to each UK entrant. Overseas entrant can order printed catalogue. Low entry fees. Only pay for each section entered.
PAGB Inter-Federation Competition and Exhibition 2026
Exhibition – The following WPF prints have been accepted into the PAGB Inter-Federation Competition and Exhibition 2026.
Congratulations go to:
Owen Edmonds LRPS AWPF (Bargoed) – Solitude (also received a Judge’s Award from Ralph Snook).
Annette O’Connell AWPF EFIAP CPAGB (Gwent) – Racing Vultures
Paul James AWPF CPAGB EPSA (Bridgend) – The Silence of Surrender
Christine Tidman EFIAP/b BPE4* CPAGB (Gwynfa) – Curious Cows
Emma Woodhouse (RPC) – Having a Splashing Time
The exhibited prints will be returned around this time next year.
The exhibition can be seen at The Old School House, Churchbridge, Oldbury, B69 2AS until 2-Aug-26. I’ve been to see it. I do urge you to go to see what other parts of the UK are doing.
Returns – I also have the returns of the prints not accepted for this year’s exhibition and those accepted into the 2025 Exhibition. The score attained by each print is recorded on its back. I have returned or have arranged for the return of prints to Afan Nedd (6 prints), Morriston (3), Gwent (2), and Bridgend & District (12).
Please will someone from the following clubs contact me to arrange for returns: Abergavenny (2), Baglan Bay (1), Cardiff (1), Gwynfa (7), Merthyr Tydfil (1), Monmouth (7), Rhondda (6), RPC (2), Tenby (5), Vale (3) and Western Valley (1).
Peter A Young HonPAGB
Email: execmem6@thewpf.co.uk
Judith Parry DPAGB EFIAP HonPAGB
Further to the sad news we reported in our last edition, Leigh Preston has written an appreciation of the life and work of Judith Parry.
You can read it in edition 408 (extra) of PAGB E-News. Click here.
2026 PAGB Inter-Fed Results
2026 PAGB Inter-Federation Competition & Exhibition
Competition – The competition was judged on Saturday 20th June 2026 and the results are now available here.
The WPF achieved a very creditable 7th place (out of 15) in the Colour Print Section. We were =13th in the Monochrome Print Section and =10th in the Nature Print Section.
Our congratulations go to Owen Edmonds of Bargoed CC on receiving a Judge’s Award for his Monochrome Print, ‘Solitude’.
My thanks go to all the photographers whose work was selected to represent WPF.
Exhibition – The opening will be at 2pm on 18th July 2026 at The Old School House, Churchbridge, Oldbury, B69 2AS (the home of Smethwick PS) when the awards will be presented.
Print Returns – I do not yet know what prints will be included in the exhibition. I will be collecting the prints which will not be used, together with those included in the 2025 exhibition, on 11th July 2026. When I know whose prints I have, I will arrange for their return.
Peter A Young HonPAGB
24th June 2026
PAGB APM November 2026 Adjudication FULL
PAGB APM November 2026 Adjudication – Colchester
Both Adjudication days for the APM Awards to be held in Colchester over the weekend of 28/29 November are now full. Future applications will be forwarded to the April 2027 Adjudication to be hosted by Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union on 24/25 April.
A reminder that an Audio Visual Adjudication will be held online on Sunday 20 September 2026 and spaces are still available.
PAGB Interfederation – WPF Selections
2026 PAGB Inter-Federation Competition & Exhibition
Our thanks go to Gareth Martin who, with me, selected 20 prints to be entered in each of three sections, mono, colour and nature, in this event. A list of the prints selected is here. (A corrected file was added on 2nd June 2026).
I have to submit our entry by 14 June and the judging takes place on 20 June. All being well, I shall be present.
There will be a further report following release of the official results.
Peter A Young CPAGB AFIAP HonPAGB
Masters of Print Exhibition Dates
PAGB APM November 2026 Adjudication
PAGB APM November 2026 Adjudication – Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 November 2026.
The weekend in Colchester has been rearranged and the Distinction Projected Digital Image section will be adjudicated on the Saturday. The spaces available are:
Saturday Adjudication: 3 Badge applications & 13 Credit applications
Sunday Adjudication: 13 Distinction/Excellence applications and around 5 Master applications
Please contact me to make an application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Peter A Young HonPAGB
PAGB Distinctions Officer
pagbapm@thewpf.co.uk
PAGB Print Championship – New Venue
The 2026 PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship will be held on Saturday 24 October 2026 and it will have a new venue at Harper Adams University in Newport, Shropshire. We will be using the Weston Lecture Theatre.
The venue offers free parking and free WiFi. Tea, coffee and sandwiches will be available in a coffee bar about 5 minutes’ walk from the theatre. Also, lunch boxes can also be provided if ordered in advance.
Watch for more information in e-news nearer the time, including ticket arrangements.
