AV News 191 - February 2013
Melbourne CC
Barbara Butler AV-AAPS SSAPS & John Spring
On October 3rd and 4th, Melbourne Camera Club played host to Charles
Hulse FRPS AV-AFIAP. Charles lives in Adelaide and is
a semi-retired industrial chemist who works in the food
industry. In the 1970s he joined the WEA Camera Club
and had local and national success with both slides
and black & white work. By the late 1970s he had
began a lifelong interest in audio-visual work and
currently has more than 70 productions. In 1979, 1981
and 1999 respectively he gained his ARPS, FRPS and
AFIAP for AVs. In 1992 he was a member of the
Barossa Valley APSCON organizing committee and gave presentations of
his work at that convention.
He was the Director of the Adelaide International AV Festival from 1994 to
1999, therefore many readers may know Charles. His work tends to the
artistic/documentary genre and is organized and bold in style with a sense of
the epic or dramatic usually present. Feelings about the environment and the
eternal also tend to be part of his themes. He is currently a member of three
photographic groups in South Australia - ‘f22’, ‘The Roving Photographers
Group’ and ‘The Audio-Visual Club of South Australia’. He has 34
acceptances and 11 awards at international AV festivals. I think it fair to say
he is one of our most experienced AV workers.
We were delighted that he made the trip across to Melbourne to present
18 of his excellent AVs over two nights. On the first evening he entertained
the AV Group, choosing to show and talk about 9 AVs with particular features
which we could learn from.
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