PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 20614, 14 October 1930, Page 12

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

EXHIBITION OF CLUB WORK * ALSO COLLECTION THAT WOK IN LONDON This afternoon the Dunedin Photographic Society opened" at its rooms in Liverpool street an exhibition that is of interest not only in Otago, but throughout New Zealand and far afield. It ,is prijnarily the annual-club ex- „ hibition of the work of members. There ‘ are fifty-nine pictures, all of a high standard—nothing for which excuses need < be made. Mr A. H. O’Keeffe has judged this collection. The senior class is of views of New Zealand. Miss E. B. Jeans gets first ■ award for * Misty Morning,’ a scene taken from the top of Flagstaff. Second award goes to F. Mitchell for a pastoral, and to' Mrs M. C. Ball for a landscape of hillside and trees, they being adjudged equal., Mr Mitchell

lives in Nelson, but is a member of the Dunedin Club. He is also the winner i, in the portrait sction, being first and second. In the junior class, also devoted to Now Zealand subjects, G. Anderson is first with a scene on the Clutha River, and second with a good study of the 1 bridge. The open class is for ' any member, the subjects being outside of New Zealand Mrs Oliver (of Albert street) takes first award with the view of a street in Bruges, and third award with another Bruges study. P. Beck is placed second with a scene in Port ; Said. OVERSEAS COLLECTION. On a wall by itself is the collection of Dunedin Photographic Society’s ex- !, hibits that was sent to London lor the overseas competition there. In past years Melbourne and Sydney have swept the board in that competition. Last year the Dunedin Society entered for the first time and won. It is the first win for New Zealand. No wonder the society is proud of it. The collection numbers forty-seven pieces, contributed by nine members—Mrs B. M. Gibson, Miss E. B. Jeans, Messrs D. Sherriff, G, Chance, G. S. Erwin, C. A. * Weedon, T. A. Dawson, H. H. Gardner, and W, B. Seymour. The studies were not judged individually, but as a collection. It is one in which there is not . a weak spot. Surely it is a histone triumph to win in London against competitors who previously stood practically unchallengeable. 1 Visitors to this exhibition will be pleased to note that our photographers nave exploited the beauty of New Zealand in all its manifestations, with nar- - ticular respect to its natural endowments. In other words, landscapes preponderate, portraits and story views being introduced but not featured.