PHOTOGRAPHY

Evening Star, Issue 23129, 1 December 1938, Page 18

PHOTOGRAPHY

INCREASE IN INTEREST THE DUNEDIN SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Dunedin Photographic Society (Inc.) was presided over by Mr E. F. Lord at the dub rooms last Monday evening, and in moving the adoption of the annual report, Mr Lord said that, although the club had suffered a heavy loss in the deaths of its president, immediate past president, and the preceding president within a short period early in the year, membership continued to improve. The net increase for the year had been 13 members, and this could be attributed to the excellent syllabus presented, and to the increasing interest taken in the public exhibitions of high-class pictorial work which it had been possible to present during the year. In the annual interclub competition fo? the Bledisloa Cup, the .Auckland;

judges placed Dunedin third out of five entries. Great public interest was manifested in the R.P.S. exhibition oi pictorial photography, which came from London by courtesy of Messrs Kodak Ltd. After it was opened by Sir Percy Sargood l , it attracted increasing attendances and continued to do so throughout New Zealand. The loan collection of pictorial photographs from Kodak Ltd. this month also attracted considerable interest. In addition, portfolios were exchanged with Edinburgh, Johannesburg, New South Wales, and Tasmania, and loan exhibits received from Messrs Dudley Johnston. Marcus Adams, and L, Missonne. Further contact with overseas clubs was made at this meeting through the presence of the Rev. Johnston Turnbull, of Bolivia, and a member of the Toronto Camera Club, Canada, who was asked to convey greetings from Dunedin.

The work of the club has been - maintained by instruction classes,_ lectures, demonstrations, and exhibitions of club work in print form, as well as lantern slide and cine film. The chairman asked members to study the excellent work ■ loaned by Kodak Ltd.,

and sought their co-operation in an endeavour to raise the technical standard of club work during the coming year. He also stressed the need for continued help in interesting prospective members in the club’s activities.

Officers elected were: Patron, Mr SH. Rawspnj president, Mr- E. F. Lord; vice-presidents Messrs ; G, Chance, J. G. Johnston, and the president of the Otago ■ Art Society (M* G. Tovey); hon. secretary, Mr R. M. Nichol; hon. treasurer, Mr J. G. Johnston ; exhibition secretary, Miss L. Bagley; hon. editor, Mr D. Y. Erwin}' council—president, secretary, treasurer, exhibition secretary, editor, and Dr R. Kirk, Messrs F. T, Allan,) R. Kirk, Miss M. Valentine; hon, judge, Mr G. Chance, F.R.P.S.