PACT & the Photographic Society of Queensland

The Photo Arts Club Tweed is affiliated with the Photographic Society of Queensland Inc. (PSQ) which represents over 50 affiliated photography clubs in Queensland and promotes the art and science of photography in all its forms. All members of affiliated camera clubs are automatically members of the PSQ.

The charter of the PSQ is to provide services to clubs and members in the way of competition opportunities, qualified judges for clubs, events, talks and workshops, remote judging services, insurance coverage, opportunity to exhibit photos solely or jointly at Photo Continental, photo gallery for clubs who don't have their own.

For more information about PSQ click here.

Club Philosophy

It all started when…

The aims and objectives of the founder Ray Richardson in 2006 were to create a fellowship within which the art of photography, in all its forms and skill levels, is encouraged, respected, shared, enjoyed and celebrated by all.

Respecting and valuing the combined knowledge of our membership and endeavouring to share this by giving what we know and receiving what we don’t know, with a generosity of spirit.

Whilst the artistry of the end product would be the main goal, the processes involved, in all its forms and preferences, should always be welcomed.

Ray believed that this simple philosophy would create a space within which members can achieve their own aspirations, and do so within an environment of mutual respect and celebration.

LOOKING AHEAD…

The philosophy as regards to club competition was what interested Ray more than anything else. He was anxious to establish what he saw as an opening up of established Camera Club protocol.

For more than 100 years Camera Clubs have stuck to a set of procedures that have, over time, differed very little. Club nights invariably consisted of just viewing, as in a cinema, with hardly any membership participation. Adjudication was, in Ray’s opinion, stuck by a set of soft unwritten rules created in the early stages of photography itself, with very little or no acceptance of the changes that digitalisation was presenting. Ray could plainly see that Digital photography and it’s up and coming companion, Digital manipulation, would release photography from its tethered existence to a wonderful expansive art form open to all.

Now we view a blossoming of new and exciting photos that have lifted the art an enormous step forward.