{"id":687283,"date":"2026-07-12T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687283\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:29:09","slug":"belfast-the-camera-club-helping-to-keep-printed-photography-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687283\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast: The camera club helping to keep printed photography alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the age of the smartphone, Northern Ireland&#8217;s oldest camera club is helping to keep print photography alive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vittorio Silvestri, president of the Central Photographic Association (CPA) camera club, believes &#8220;we&#8217;re losing a bit of history&#8221; because of the decline in print images. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club, currently located in south Belfast, dates back to 1906 and is this year celebrating its 120th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silvestri has been in the CPA for four decades and in that time has seen membership decline from more than 70 people to about 30. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The numbers are dwindling,&#8221; he said, adding that there are not many young people active in the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With camera technology on smartphones getting better by the year, Silvestri says doors have been opened for the younger generation when it comes to making photography more accessible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, we&#8217;re not really seeing them come into the club because of that,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the age of the smartphone, Northern Ireland&#8217;s oldest camera club is helping to keep print photography alive.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}