Darwen Camera Club are happy to provide links to our neighbouring Camera clubs and our affiliate society websites. We are also happy to link to trade sites that are willing to support the club or its members in some way but regret we can't link to external sites purely to advertise their services. Please note: we regularly receive requests to include links to websites that may contain information of interest to photographers. Whilst many of these requests are no doubt well intentioned, the club doesn't benefit and for internet security reasons we feel the risk is not worth it. Please don't contact us asking us to link to a resource you have found as we won't act on it and your message will be deleted.

Photographic Federations

Darwen Camera Club is affiliated to the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU), and through this link, the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB). The PAGB is a member of FIAP, the Federation Internationale de L’Art Photographique (FIAP). More locally we also are members of the Inter-Club Photographic Alliance, a group of about 18 local clubs.

Inter-Club Photographic Alliance

The Inter-Club Photographic Alliance (ICPA) is a group of around 18 local clubs that aim to support each other and compete through good-natured inter-club competition and occasional special events.

Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union

Darwen Camera Club is a member of the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union, an organisation overseeing 96 photographic societies in the North West of England. The L&CPU encourage and promote photography in our region, organise annual club and individual competitions and represent their member clubs and societies at the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain.

Photographic Alliance of Great Britain

The PAGB bring together the 15 photographic federations across the UK, promoting activities and competition amongst affiliated clubs.

FIAP

The Federation Internationale de L’Art Photographique was founded in 1950 and is a federation of national photographic associations. For England, our affiliated body is the PAGB. Most club photographers regard FIAP principally as the body who endorse a number of worldwide competitions, or salons. Having an image accepted in these competitions helps towards international awards such as AFIAP and EFIAP, and for UK-based salons, the BPE 'star' awards.

Local Photographic Clubs & Societies

Below we've listed links to other Camera Clubs and Photographic Societies photography enthusiasts around East Lancashire might be interested in.

Blackburn & District Camera Club

Blackburn Camera Club meet on Monday evenings at the Canberra Club, Salmesbury

The Postal Photographic Club

The Postal Photographic Club brings together photography enthusiasts from across the country. Members share their images through membership of a 'circle'; other members of the same circle then each provide feedback. The club presents awards for the best images each year, and Darwen usually reviews the best of the year's images in February.

Club Member Websites

The following members have agreed to host links to their own photography websites, where you can view more of their work:

Darwen Foto Group

An informal Facebook Group for Darwen Camera Club members.

Graham Dean

Graham is a member of Morecambe Camera Club and holds an Honorary Life Membership at Darwen. Graham holds the AFIAP accreditation, is a CPAGB holder and holds 2 BPE crowns from the British Photographic Exhibitions.

Iain Houghton

Iain has been a member at Darwen since 2010.

Bill Senior CPAGB

Bill has been a member of the club for many years. Bill holds the CPAGB accreditation from the PAGB and holds Associate membership of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).