PSC students and teachers are often winners of the prestigious AIPP Photography Awards at both state and national level.

PSC teachers and graduates are also regularly involved in exhibitions of their work both nationally and internationally.

PSC SCOOPS PHOTOGRAPHY INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING AWARDS

Photography Studies College has recently scooped the 2005 photography education and training awards at the annual Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) national awards held in Brisbane. PSC took out the Tertiary Institute of the Year award and Steve Young, a PSC commercial major student won the prestigious Australian Student Photographer of the Year.

Steve was thrilled and reflecting on his win said “Winning this award is certainly something out of the box, its great!” Now in his final year of the course Steve combines his photography with work commitments and has found that he really looks forward to his time at PSC. “You know, mixing with very creative students and talented lecturers is very inspirational. You see a continual flow of photographic work and that's an excellent way of getting the creative juices happening.” Steve went on to add “I guess the interest I had in photography three and a half years ago is now an absolute passion and I'm really looking forward to taking up the profession full time in the near future."

2005 AIPP TERTIARY INSTITUTE OF THE YEAR
2005 AIPP AUSTRALIAN STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR -
STEVE YOUNG
(L-R) Rod Stewart, Photographer and PSC's Commercial Major Coordinator,
Barry Thompson, PSC's Industry Liaison Coordinator,
Steve Young (PSC's award winning student) and Julie Moss, PSC's Managing Director.

PSC plays Host to the AIPP 2004 Victorian Photography Student of the Year.
13 and 14 October 2004.

This year the judging of the annual Victorian Photography Student of the Year (VPSY) award was held, here, at PSC! This is the annual Victorian event open to all final year photography students (both part time & full time) from NMIT, PSC, RMIT BA & BAppSC, RMIT TAFE, ICPP, Latrobe Uni Bendigo and VCA. One hundred and twenty seven students entered 384 prints for judging on the 13 and 14 October. The judging was attended enthusiastically by students and staff from both PSC and other photographic educational institutions.
The following students from PSC won or obtained runner up positions in these categories:
- Non-assigned experimental category - Winner Emily Hart, runner up Emma Ferguson.
- Digital category Winner, Damian Cahill, runner up Shaun Robinson
- Commercial category - Joint runner-up Leah Wheelton.

The winners' photographs along with all other works scoring 83 and above will participate in the 2005 traveling exhibition.
View winning images and additional VPSY information at this link http://vypsawards.tripod.com