Nov. 2025 Judging Program News

Basic Training for New Judges Update

I am excited to announce that he Introduction to Judge Course is now open for registration and dates for the Judging Practice Workshops will be announced soon.

For further information and to register, visit the CAPA Learning Centre. You can access the Learning Centre from the CAPA website. Under the Judging tab, Judging Courses, select CLICK HERE. Or use this link https://www.capacanada.online/

 

Judge Certification Program

Congratulations to Joy Ruffeski who recently completed the Judge Certification Program and qualified as a CAPA Certified Judge.

 

National Judges List

The current National Judges List was issued in September; the next update will be in early December.

All CAPA Clubs have online access to the latest list of CAPA Certified Judges and CAPA Apprentice Judges. Go to the CAPA website, log in to your club’s account and go to the Members > National Judges List. You must be logged in to your club’s account to download the list.

If you have questions or would like further information, please contact the Director of the Judging Program at judgingdirector@capacanada.ca.

Toronto Camera Club – Nov 2025 – Upcoming Presentation

 

Tickets for non-Toronto Camera Club members are $15 and the links are all listed in the information below.

All the info can be found on the Toronto Camera Club website under Talking Photography 

Nov. 13, 7:30pm – Shelley Niro

The Wild Ones and the Colonized: Shelley Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk Six Nations Grand River Reserve.

Niro is a practising artist, concentrating on painting, photography, and film.

Niro was the inaugural recipient of the Aboriginal Arts Award presented through the Ontario Arts Council in 2012. In 2017, Niro received the Governor General’s Award for The Arts, The Scotiabank Photography Award, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Reveal Award. In 2022, Niro was presented with the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award from the Ontario Arts Foundation.

Niro is an honorary elder in the Indigenous Curatorial Collective.

You can register by clicking here

Nov. 20, 7:30pm – Peter Andrew Lusztyk

Photography as an Ancient Art Form and the Role of Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence:

Peter is a Toronto based freelance photographer whose goal is to turn ordinary or overlooked things into something that causes the viewer to pause and examine the inherent beauty of them. He counts The Atlantic, CTV News, Esquire Magazine, Globe and Mail, Le Monde, The National Geographic, Politico, The Royal Canadian Geographic Society and Wired Magazine among his many editorial clients.

He holds several awards, including AACE Applied Arts Photographer of the Year 2013, Applied Arts Annual Award 2017 and Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Award 2016. Apart from his editorial and commercial work, Peter teaches photography at Sheridan College

You can register by clicking here

London Camera Club – Dec. 2025 – Upcoming Presentation

Speaker: 7-9 PM EST

 

Nov. 13 7pm-9pm EDT. Artists’ Talk: Streets Unscripted – Urban Life through the Eyes of Andrei Furnea & Mathias Wasik

Dec 4 7pm-9pm EST. Artists’ Talk: Silent Structures – Urban Landscapes with Nicola Bertellotti & Mathias Wasik

Dec. 11. 7pm-9pm EST. Artists’ Talk: Framing Reality – Two Visions in Documentary Photography

 

The fee is $12 CAD

You can have more info by clicking here.

Oakville Camera Club – Dec. 2025 – Upcoming Presentation

OCC Presents an online presentation, at 07:00 pm.

Monday, December 1st, 2025. Advanced Mobile Photography by Mark Hemmings.

No fee

More information  by clicking here