Annual Exhibition – summary

That was a first-class masterclass from Chris Palmer for the panels competition last night with plenty of lessons to take away – especially for the forthcoming Annual Exhibition, for which Chris is also our judge. This is a reminder that the deadline is approaching for entries, just five weeks now to the 12^th May.

As it’s three years now since we’ve been able to hold the exhibition and some of our newer members will not have had a chance to enter before, here’s a summary of some of the key points (you can get the full guidance here (guidance for entrant ).

• You can enter up to SIX prints which must be mounted on standard 40 x 50 mounts
• You don’t need to window mount your prints – you can surface mount them, that is stick them onto the mount. (If you saw Mike Davison’s super panel of three interiors last night you will have seen some perfect surface mounting)
• You also have to upload digital copies of your prints via Photocomp as you do for print competitions which we use for data management and publication purposes. See here for information on uploading here
• All entries are judged individually, not as a group, but think about how the images will look exhibited together. Use the same colour mounts, think about the format of the images – all the comments about good panelling we heard from Chris
• All of your entries will be considered for the various awards (the cups and trophies) – you cannot enter additional images for consideration in those categories, nor can you specify which category you think any image falls into
• The exception to that is for images taken within a 10 Mile radius of Chichester’s Cross. Those images must be recognisably of their location and using the location in the title is helpful. Again, this needs to be within the 6-image limit, not in addition to it. (PDIs can also be considered here but see below for more on that)
• You can use images that have been entered in competitions but you cannot enter again any image that has been in previous exhibitions including last year’s online version. That includes not entering as a PDI an image that was a print, or vice versa
•  You can also enter up to SIX PDIs – these are different from the digital versions of your prints, so in total you can enter 12 images for the exhibition. Again these need to be uploaded via Photocomp and all the same rules apply

In addition to the usual awards (which are listed in the guidance) there is a new category this year. The Kenneth Richardson Cup has been presented to the Club by Barbara Coombes in memory of Kenneth, her brother, a Club member some years ago who died tragically young. It will be awarded for the best black and white image in the exhibition.

Chichester Camera Club’s Annual Exhibition is one of the foremost across the south and attracts well over 1200 visitors over the week (6^th to 13^th August) and it depends on the variety and quality of our members’ work to succeed. These have been difficult times and this is a splendid opportunity to celebrate our love for photography so do please enter to once more make it the wonderful event it has always been.