CARLOW Photography club launched their \u2018very impressive\u2019 exhibition of images at Fairgreen Shopping Centre, opened by MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa, on Friday 29 May.<\/p>\n
There are 145 images taken by club members on display, filling the hall in the shopping centre between Tesco and Eason\u2019s with life scenes in Carlow.<\/p>\n
The theme for part of the exhibition is Carlow in Rest and Play, said chairperson Eamon Redmond. Two-thirds of the exhibition is an open section, where members took photos of whatever piqued their interest.<\/p>\n
Most of the images on display are available to purchase for \u20ac40 and \u20ac65 framed. A portion of the money generated by sales will go to the Carlow branch of the Parkinson\u2019s Society and the desk at the exhibition also accepts cash and card donations for the charity.<\/p>\n
The club was established in 2003 by Charley Callinan, who got a couple of guys together and drew up a constitution, said Eamon. One of the stipulations of the constitution was to hold a yearly exhibition of members’ work, which they have been doing faithfully for the past 23 years.<\/p>\n
The exhibition, which once popped up in different places across Carlow town and now resides in Fairgreen, \u201chas been getting bigger and better every year,\u201d said Eamon. And Charley remains an active member \u201cinspiring today\u2019s photographers even still,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
On Thursday 4 June at 6pm, the exhibition space at Fairgreen will be used for an information night where potential new members can ask questions about the club. Eamon said ten new members have joined in the past year, bringing the group up to 50 regulars, who meet every week from September to June.<\/p>\n
At meetings, they share work, hear about some aspects of photography from invited speakers, hold member-led workshops and organise the five competitions they hold during the year. The society does black and white and colour photography in \u201call genres,\u201d said Eamon. They also go on monthly outings to a location where they shoot photos and have a coffee together. \u201cIt’s kind of a social club to be honest as well,\u201d said Eamon.<\/p>\n
They are all amateur photography \u201centhusiasts,\u201d said Eamon, \u201cbut, to be honest, if you look at some of our more experienced members, the distinction between professional and amateur is not as clear,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
The desk is staffed from 9am to 5pm each evening and will stay open later on Thursday and Friday this week.<\/p>\n
Eamon said they \u201clove to see people coming in and looking at the photos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n See all the images taken at the launch in next week’s edition of The Carlow Nationalist.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARLOW Photography club launched their \u2018very impressive\u2019 exhibition of images at Fairgreen Shopping Centre, opened by MEP Cynthia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-482344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}