Welcome!

The Portland Camera Club has welcomed photography enthusiasts of all levels since 1899. Meetings are held on Mondays from September through May at the Woodfords Club, 179 Woodford Street in Portland (click for map).  We meet to display and discuss photography in a friendly atmosphere. Visitors are always welcome (only members may submit images in competitions). To learn more about us, visit our About the Club page. For a schedule of club events, visit our Club Calendar.

Recent member images:

  • Jack-Sharkey-The-Algonquin-Hotel
  • Jeff-Norton-Acadia-Winter
  • Jim-Mueller-Reflecting-On-Portland
  • Joe-Wax-Beards-of-Icicles-and-Snow-1
  • John-Bald-Sunrise-on-the-Dunes
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  • McCaffrey_Jodi_Red-Dawn
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The Portland Camera Club is a charter member of the Photographic Society of America and the New England Camera Club Council.

News & Events

Read the Maine Historical Society's feature story about the Portland Camera Club. The well written article features photos from the MHS archive.

Read the latest of issue of the PCC newsletter, The Photogram

For videos of presentations and recorded meetings, visit the PCC Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/pccmaine

Monday January 19 at 7pm:  4 Artists' Techniques for Impressionistic Photos (Zoom)

(Zoom) Rich Reynolds will demonstrate the techniques of 3 photographic artists to create impressionistic photo art. His talk will highlight the work of Pep Ventosa, Stephanie Jung, Olga Merill, and Frank Andree.

Monday, January 26, 7pm · Projected Image Competition (Zoom)

Submission guidelines:

  • Deadline for images: Thursday, Jan 15th.
  • One image per member.
  • Rules and instructions for submitting your image are on the Competitions page.
  • Send your image file by email to pccupload@gmail.com (every entry receives a confirmation within 72 hrs).

Monday, February 2, 7pm · Guest Speaker Lou Jones (Zoom)

Zoom: Photographer Lou Jones will lecture on the Olympics and Black History Month. Lou Jones' eclectic career has evolved from commercial to personal. It has spanned every format, film type, artistic movement and technological change. He maintains a studio in Boston, Massachusetts and has photographed for Fortune 500 corporations, international companies and local small businesses including Federal Express, Nike and the Barr Foundation; completed assignments for magazines and publishers all over the world such as Time/Life, National Geographic and Paris Match; initiated long term projects on the civil wars in Central America, death row, Olympics Games and pregnancy; and published multiple books.

Visit Lou's website: www.fotojones.com

 

Complete Club Calendar