Spring/summer 2012: Welcome to the Club: Highlighting Photography Groups from Across Canada– Issue 34

Camera clubs all over Canada are experiencing a growth in membership. Digital media is making it easier to enter the field and share a passion for photography with like-minded people of all ages and abilities. Sharing is a form of learning and clubs provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and images. We learn from one another.

More than 30 clubs from across Canada are featured in this issue. Thanks to everyone who submitted images. I encourage you to visit as many of their individual sites as possible. The PhotoEd webpage (www.photoed.ca) links to all of them. Many club websites have excellent educational resources and galleries that display more images than can be shown here. I hope it will be an inspiration for all readers to see what others are doing. Look up a local camera club and join!

The next issue of PhotoEd Magazine will focus on colleges, universities, and professional schools of photography. We did a schools issue in 2009 and it is now time to showcase the work of the next generation of students (and the future professional photographers) attending these schools. The issue will also feature the best student portfolios submitted, so start preparing your work.

Felix Russo