Congratulations to the following members who were awarded their Associateship at the recent judging which took place on 2nd May -

Mark Griffin   Ger McCarthy   Owen O'Connor   John Ryan                                                                                                                                    

Congratulations also to our two new Fellows -

Gareth Byrne and Paul Callaghan.

Gareth's entry in Architecture and Paul's in the Wedding category were judged on the 21st April by the BIPP Fellowship panel and both were awarded their Fellowship.

This is the highest level of qualification within the IPPA and is now held by twelve members of the Association.

The IPPA Royal & SunAlliance

Professional Photographer of the Year 2008

David Cantwell

The Irish Professional Photographers Association (IPPA) is delighted to announce that David Cantwell was awarded The IPPA Royal & SunAlliance Professional Photographer of the Year 2008 at the National Photographic Awards held in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin last night. David’s winning portfolios were also judged the best in the Commercial and Advertising Awards and he was awarded best Single Print in the Classical Portrait and Advertising categories.

This is the 12th year that Royal & SunAlliance has sponsored the National Photographic Awards and touring IPPA Photographic Exhibition.

The IPPA Happy Faces Day Calendar 2008 in support of DEBRA Ireland is now available

It’s that time of year again; Congratulations.

It was wonderful to see the IPPA membership reaching for the stars. We have six new Associates all of whose work has been judged to the highest criteria of quality, workmanship and artistic skill. The IPPA congratulates:

• Naoise Culhane
• Padraic Deasy
• Tom Doherty
• Mark Maxwell
• Donal Murphy
• Janice O’Connell