Bledisloe Cup – Interclub Competition

This is an annual competition awarded to the PSNZ club submitting the best selection of six prints, on any subject. All images must be exposed in New Zealand.

This competition is conducted annually on behalf of the PSNZ by a member club appointed by the current Council of the Society. The 2008/09 the competition was organised by the Wellington Photographic Society.

Entries close around middle of February. The competition entries are exhibited at the National Convention for that year.

If the club submitting has forty (40) or more members then each print must be by a different club member. For clubs that have less than forty members then an individual member of that club may have a maximum of two prints in the set.

More details are available in the rules section.

History

Bledisloe Cup, 1932

The Bledisoe Cup, more formally known as “The PSNZ Bledisloe Competition for Inter Club Sets of Photographic Prints”, was initiated in 1919 by the Dunedin Photographic Society for four monochrome prints.

In 1932, Governor General Lord Bledisloe, patron of the then Wellington Camera Club, donated a cup for this premier competition. It was first presented in 1932 to the Auckland Camera Club. In 1953, the Cup was held by the Wellington Camera Club, who on formation of the PSNZ, handed it over to the Society.

It is now awarded annually to the club with the best selection of six prints

The most recent winners were the North Shore Photographic Society.

In previous years, the Wellington Photographic Society were winners.

A summary and a list of previous winners can be found here.