We’ve received this sad news from Mike Jones.
Malcolm Owen, former member of the Rhondda Camera Club, passed away on Wednesday 22nd May.
Joyce Mollet LRPS ARPS AWPF
Llanelli Photographic Society are extremely sad to announce the passing of Joyce Mollet on Friday 3rd May after a long illness. Although her family live thousands of miles away both her son Matthew and daughter Sarah were there.
Graham Meaker FRPS
We’ve received this sad news from David Jones.
Newport Photographic Club is deeply saddened to report the recent passing of lifelong member Graham Meaker.
Tony’s Archive bought by National Library
Tony Charles Pioneers of Welsh fine art portraiture collection has been purchased by the National Library of Wales for its photographic archive and for its external public exhibitions loan programme to selected art galleries in Wales.
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Gary Jenkins
We’ve received sad news from Dave Lewis at Tenby & District Camera Club:
I have the sad duty to announce the passing of our good friend and esteemed photographer Gary Jenkins.
AWPF Assessments 2018
On the 4th November 2018, the AWPF assessment day was held, there were 23 applications, 21 print submissions and 2 digital submissions. 13 print panels and 2 digital panels were accepted and those photographers were awarded the distinction of AWPF and added to the WPF roll of honour. Congratulations to them all!
2018 Welsh International Salon Results
The adjudication for the Welsh International Salon took place a short while ago and the lists of acceptances can be seen below together with slideshows of the Award Winning images in each section.
Welsh Salon Exhibition
The 2018 Welsh Salon Exhibition has now closed. It ran throughout June 2018.
Thanks to Steve Littlewood of Gwynfa for these photographs to remind us of the opening day.
A gentle reminder to all clubs
When you invite a judge or a presenter to your club please:-
Keep club business short – i.e. not longer than 5 minutes. If you have a lot of club business then please attend to it during the tea break.
Please ensure that guest speakers get the full amount of time as they will have prepared their presentations to fit the available time and it is not easy for them to change the timings if you start late (and then expect them to finish on time).
If there are a lot of pictures to be judged, or you are informed that the presentation is long, then please keep the tea break as short as possible.
This post is in response to several observations from judges and presenters.
Ed Cloutman (WPF Judges and Presenters Secretary).
The WPF in 1958 Amateur Photographer
Thanks to Johnnie Rogers who spotted this article from 5th March 1958 whilst browsing through some old ‘Amateur Photographer’ magazines. It seems feedback from clubs in Wales had waned and Amateur Photographer hoped to revive interest in its weekly column.
The WPF came into being in 1951 and was initially a Federation covering the whole of Wales. Later, in the early 1970s we think, the clubs in North Wales split away to form the NWPA. A full list of WPF Past Presidents can be found on our history page here.
If you have any interesting information about the history of the Federation, please let us know
