York Photographic Society

This is the website of York Photographic Society, York's longest established photography club and indeed one of Britain's earliest photographic societies. New members are always welcome to this thriving, friendly and energetic camera club. Our meetings are held at the Poppleton Centre. Guests may join for an evening for a fee of £5 each.

YPS Programme 2026 - 2027

See below for the upcoming events this season:

Date Event Description
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 Open Evening and Projects Show five of your images from summer 2026
TBA, ?? Sep 2026 Club Outing Coffee, Camera and a Catch Up
Wed, 09 Sep 2026 Guest Speaker Richard and Janet Burdon - Striving to make nothing look interesting
Wed, 16 Sep 2026 Guest Speaker Martin Litchfield - The (M) Art of Monochrome
Wed, 23 Sep 2026 Club Speakers Four Short Talks from Club Members
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 Project Night Topic: Transport, Transporting and Transportation
TBA, ?? Oct 2026 Club Outing Visit to see the Autumn Colours
Wed, 07 Oct 2026 Guest Speaker Samual Dawes - Behind the scenes in the Movies
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 Club Exchange Four Short Talks from the Wetherby Camera Club
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 Guest Speaker Charlotte Rhodes and Vince Maidens - Wildlife
Wed, 28 Oct 2026 Club Speakers Four Short Talks from Club Members
Wed, 04 Nov 2026 Guest Speaker Nick Hodgson - Free Mines Coal Faces
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 Competition Night Open Digitial Image competition judged by Roger Poyser.
Wed, 18 Nov 2026 Guest Speaker John Illingworth - A snapshot of 3 months in the Faroe Islands and Iceland
Wed, 25 Nov 2026 Project Night Topic: Seeing Red
Wed, 02 Dec 2026 Guest Speaker Steve Rogala-Kaluski - Wildlife
TBA, ?? Dec 2026 Club Outing Visit the York Christmas market
Wed, 09 Dec 2026 Competition Night Colour Print competition judged by Darren McDonald.
Wed, 16 Dec 2026 Project Night Topic: Time and Change



Wed, 06 Jan 2027 Open Evening and Guest Speaker Geraldine Westrupp and Martin Sammtleben
Wed, 13 Jan 2027 Club Speaker Alison Taylor - My search for Paddington and other Adventures
Wed, 20 Jan 2027 Guest Speaker Peter Caton - Unyielding floods
Wed, 27 Jan 2027 How To .. Four club members focus on Editing and Post Processing
TBA, ?? Feb 2027 Club Outing Follow the York Ice Trail / York Viking Festival
Wed, 03 Feb 2027 Competition Night Monochrome Print competition judged by Grahame Gage
Wed, 10 Feb 2027 Guest Speaker Thomas Peck - The Photographic Sublime
Wed, 17 Feb 2027 Project Night Topic: Pictures taken no more than 1 mile from your door
Wed, 24 Feb 2027 Guest Speaker Alistair How - Urban and Street Photography
Wed, 03 Mar 2027 Guest Speaker Keith Snell - Is it Art?
Wed, 10 Mar 2027 Competition Night Leatt Cup judged by Peter Wells
Wed, 17 Mar 2027 Project Night Topic: Photographic A to Z.(More instructions to follow)
Wed, 24 Mar 2027 Club Speakers Four short talks by club members
Wed, 31 Mar 2027 Guest Speaker Lucinda Grange - Outside the lines, a world tour of forbidden spaces
TBA, ?? Apr 2027 Club Outing Visit Bluebell Wood
Wed, 07 Apr 2027 Project Night Topic: Photographs from the Club Outings.
Wed, 14 Apr 2027 Competition Night John Saville Trophy judged by Erica Oram. Theme: Life in Yorkshire.
Wed, 21 Apr 2027 Guest Speaker Martin Priestley - Landscape Photography
Wed, 28 Apr 2027 Club Speaker President's Night
Wed, 05 May 2027 AGM Annual General Meeting

Competition Submission Dates

Entries must be submitted by midnight 3 weeks prior to the competition night

Last Date for Submission:

Wed 21 Oct 2026 - Open Digital Image

Wed 25 Nov 2026 - Colour Print

Wed 20 Jan 2027 - Monochrome Print

Wed 17 Feb 2027 - Leatt Cup

Wed 24 Mar 2027 - John Saville Trophy - Theme: Life in Yorkshire

Project Night Submission Dates

Entries must be submitted by midnight 1 week prior to the project night.

Last Date for Submission:

Wed 26 Aug 2026 - My Summer (open night)

Wed 23 Sep 2026 - Transport, Transporting and Transportation

Wed 18 Nov 2026 - Seeing Red

Wed 09 Dec 2026 - Time and Change

Wed 10 Feb 2027 - Pictures taken no more than 1 mile from your door

Wed 10 Mar 2027 - Photographic A to Z

Wed 31 Mar 2027 - Photographs from Club Outings

Digital competition and project night entries must be uploaded to PhotoEntry.

Print competition entries will passed to the Print Secretary (Peter Brett) before or after the meeting. A digital copy of the print must be uploaded to PhotoEntry.


Exhibitions

  • The Summer Exhibition will be held the weekend of 27th / 28th June 2026 at Poppleton Tithe Barn.

  • The Winter Exhibition will be held from 6th December 2026 to 9th January 2027 at the York City Screen.


YPS exchange visits to other clubs

This years YPS exchange is with the York Camera Club:

  • Wed 14th October 2026: Home Leg - Wetherby Camera Club present to the York Photographic Society.

  • Tue 22nd September 2026: Away Leg - York Photographic Society present to the Wetherby Camera Club.


Links to old programmes can be found below

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