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are three levels of distinction currently awarded by the DPS,
for those who wish to apply and to be considered for them.
Download
an application form from the links at the bottom of this
page
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LDPS
or Licentiate, the starting point.
ADPS
or Associate, the next rung on the ladder with a higher
level of skill required
FDPS
or Fellowship, the highest distinction awarded and not
unsurprisingly the hardest to achieve.
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The
requirements for each do vary in the skill level and the number of
images required. They also become harder to fulfil as you climb the
ladder, but they are not unobtainable,. With some effort, thought and
usually with some help from those who have already "been
there" and "got the T shirt", as it were, it is very
possible and rewarding to acheive.
We
are currently accepting images as prints or slides, but not a mixture of
the two. Images can be a mixture of colour or black and white. In 2008
we will be accepting images on disc for the first time. Please click here
for more information or on the menu at the top of the page
Applicants
do need to be a member of the society and all images must have been
taken during their period of disability.
The
assessment panel sits twice a year and your images and application forms
need to be with us no later than the 30th of April or the 31st of
October for inclusion in the relevant sitting.
Your
images will then be assessed by the distinctions panel who will take
into account any difficulty encountered due to a disability.
The
panel is chaired by Margaret Salisbury,
who along with John Chamberlain and Anne Cassidy, assess each
application on its individual merits.
Margaret
Salisbury, who joined the DPS some years ago, took up photography
35 years ago. First going to evening classes to learn how to put a film
in the camera and what the dials were for! Then Margaret
started teaching the same class 6 years later and continued to teach for
25 years.
Joining
the Royal Photographic Society she gained an L in 1976 an A in
1979, after failing miserably at her first attempt. Margaret has been involved
with the Licentiateship panel of the Royal Photographic Society for
years as panel member, deputy and then one of three Chairmen
and now Chairman and team leader of the panel.
Amongst
many distinctions and honours she was awarded the Fenton Medal, mainly
for services to the L panel and helping people with their distinctions
which number several hundred over a period of seventeen years.
Although
she enjoys Assessing, judging and lecturing Margaret still loves her
hobby, still has a darkroom, rarely used these days but enjoys all
aspects of photography and still thinks of herself as a "pictorialist"
but has taken pictures of anything and everything when the opportunity
has arisen.
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Download
an application form to apply for a Distinction
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Please
click below on the distinction level you wish to apply for,
then download and print the form.
Complete
pages 1, 2 and 3 fully and send them together with the
appropriate fee and the required images to the address on the
form.
Please
retain the rules and guidance pages for your own information.
Currently
all of the application forms are in Microsoft Word format.
If
you have any difficulty please contact us for a copy of the
relevant form to be posted to you.
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