Welcome to BIPP North East

Welcome to the website of the British Institute of Professional Photography, North East Region. The North East Region is run by a committee of photographers all of whom are passionate about photography. This website contains information, members' galleries, links to members websites and also information and contact details of your BIPP North East committee members.

BIPP Membership

Membership of the British Institute of Professional Photography is open to full or part time professional photographers from all disciplines. Becoming a qualified professional photographer not only gives your clients reassurance of your professional status, but also helps you take your photography skills to new levels. Joining the BIPP also puts you in touch with other professional photographers so you can share tips, help and advice.

Recent News

BIPP Open Day

The BIPP open Day at Newcastle college was very popular and some members managed to get their qualifications on the Same day. Well done to Michael Barlowe ABIPP.

2011 Image Competition

The annual BIPP NE Image competition took place at the Ravensdene Hotel. The 2 Judges were Stuart Wood FBIPP and Rob Lawson who is the Editor of the Sunderland Echo newspaper. For those who didn't turn up,  you missed a very good night with a very high standard of images. Stuart Wood went through each image and was assisted by comments from Richard Ord who stood in for the other Judge Rob Lawson who had business commitments. As each image was displayed they were discussed by both Judges and  other BIPP members who attended. I very interesting evening. Thank you to all who submitted and turned up.

2011 Image competition + AGM

This years Annual image competition will be held at the Ravensdene Lodge Hotel on the 6th July. Our AGM will normaly start at 18.00 followed by the image competition at 18.30.  The competition is open to full members apart from the open category whi...

Jonathan Beer Seminar

Jonathan Talking Technical!
The Jonathan Beer seminar on Wednesday 25th May went down very well. It was a full day event and I have had lots a good comments from the people who were lucky enough to attend. A big Thank you to Jonathan for traveling such a long way and sharing hi...

Albums Australia Event

Our Bride of the day Dawn.
The albums of Australia Event went down very well. It was a great venue and excellent lighting allowed some interesting pictures to be taken of the two models. The event was attended by BIPP, MPA and RPS members. Some of the resulting images can be v...

Regional AGM and print Competition.

This years AGM and regional print competition was held at the Ravensdene Lodge Hotel. It was well attended and after a lengthy AGM the Judges Jonathan Beer FBIPP and Neville Hutchinson from Loxley Colour went through the images. The judges commented ...

Hallgarth Evening

A very informative meeting

THe North east committee

The North East area committee From right to left  .....Bob Usher / Secretary.. Kevin Weatherly / Chairman..  Russell Baston / Committee member..Michael Barlow / committee member..... Jack Chen / committee member.

New Website

New BIPP North East website launched.




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