The CCP are giving back to our students as you enrol for Term 3. Early enrolments are going in the draw to win one of several one-on-one portfolio reviews with AIPP Awards judge, two time Australian Illustrative Photographer of the year, and CCP Lecturer Gee Greenslade.

We chat with Epson AIPP South Australian Student Photographer of the year 2016 and 2017 Diana Fernie!

CCP offers by far the most flexible study options of any local photography programme, art school, and probably accredited school of any kind. We understand that most students work full-time, and many students have commitments with kids.

On 10 May 2018, the CCP turned 21 years old. The May 10 date celebrates the day of the first CCP class ever held. That class had six students, now the CCP is the largest photographic department in South Australia with hundreds of students enrolling in courses every year.

Every year the best and the brightest in South Australian Photography gather together to decide the South Australian Professional Photographer of the Year. Later on in the year they follow it up with the Australian Professional Photography Awards. It is considered one of the most prestigious and rigorous competitions in the industry. Think of it like the Oscars - but for photography!

Aleesha Stone from St Michael's College has been announced the 2017 Most promising Young Photographer. To celebrate we have asked her six questions about her work at the CCP.

This week’s chapter and the final instalment for this year’s 20 year CCP birthday celebrations is certainly “old school”. Not totally old school in the CCP at Stepney sense, because Lucy Spartalis started here with the new award at the CCP in Marleston not long after we’d moved here in 2004 with Lucy commencing her studies two years later in 2006 with a single Introduction to Photography and going pretty much full time after that.

From all of us at the CCP, we wish you a very Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy fun and safe holidays, and have a wonderful start to the new year.

Today’s chapter is a very early former student who of course now teaches here. His past relationship has seen him wear many different hats at the CCP; student, front of house, darkroom and studio gallery committee member, exhibition installer, manager and maintenance person

This week’s chapter in the history of the CCP is a more recent alumnus who has also started lecturing here, and that is Chris Holmes. Chris commenced his studies here in 2012 and graduated with his Diploma four years later when he commenced his teaching position.

Peter Black was one of the earliest graduates of original certificate IV. He was a member of Light Gallery's Exhibition Committee. We sit down with him for an interview.

Close to home again today this episode features a much loved lecturer at the CCP Mark Spaven who has been teaching our studio-based subjects since 2009, well after we’d moved from Stepney into where we are now at Marleston.

This latest chapter features a recent graduate, Bernadette (Bernie) Kaeding (CCP Diploma 2014), who has since become pretty much a permanent fixture here at the CCP.

Following on from the inspirational words from former student and now CCP lecturer Jess Eckermann, today’s episode features the very first student who followed into the teaching pool at the CCP, Mike Lim.

One of the greatest pleasures I’ve experienced since opening the CCP in 1997, is watching and experiencing the development of some excellent students who grow on to become contemporary artists. They practice photography with a singular and original passion which extends and celebrates the uniqueness of the medium.

This 10-question interview with Ché Chorley illuminates his novel and successful approach to negotiating the fine art photography world, as well as commercial practice.

One of the fantastic CCP experiences I never tire of is the varied lives of the students who pass through the doors of the CCP to commence their photographic career.

For the past 20 years, the Light Gallery is the only fine art space exhibiting photography in Adelaide. It is a vital part of teaching photographic art at the CCP.

Heidi Linehan graduated with CCP's initial cert IV in creative photography in 2004. An accredited photographer with her own business, this is an interview we had with her

Marcus Brownlow has a cert in Photoimaging. His work explores the urban environment. Also an Analytics and Data Visualisation Consultant, he sat with us for an interview.