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.
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 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
Monday, February 9, 7pm · Projected Image Discussion – Cats (in person)
This in-person discussion is about choosing one "item" that is commonly available and can be treated in many ways photographically to stretch our creativity . Cats are very photogenic, easy to find , and can be interpreted utilizing both the pet variety and the wild type. Show us what you’ve got!
- Submit one cat image.
- Deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb 7.
- Images must be in JPEG/JPG format and sized to a maximum width of 1920px, and max height 1080px.
- Name your image file your-name-image-title.jpg (for example, Ansel-Adams-Yosemite-Valley.jpg)
- Email your image file to pccupload@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation email within 72 hours.