2020 Honours Assessments By Bruce Girdwood FPSNZ
THE HONOURS BOARD would like to congratulate all PSNZ members who have been awarded PSNZ Honours this year. We appreciate it has been a tough year with the COVID lockdown and the need to keep ourselves and the team in Invercargill safe. We are very appreciative of your patience as we have worked towards assessing your applications. This year I chaired my first Honours Board and we welcomed Paul Byrne FPSNZ ARPS AFIAP and Helen McLeod FPSNZ GPSA ARPS onto the Honours Board. On Wednesday afternoon we met to induct our new members, to refresh ourselves on the honours guidelines and make sure we all agreed on our approach to the assessment.
Our objective was to take a positive approach to the assessment and to be as consistent as we could be. We agreed to take all the time we needed to assess submissions and to talk whenever we needed to. The Honours Board developed a great vibe very quickly and we worked well together to assess your portfolios. We had many deep discussions about your work and in the end we all felt comfortable that we had been consistent and that your successes reflected a good standard, respected our existing and past Honours holders and rewarded good photography. We do not believe we raised the bar, and sought to reward those that demonstrated broad skill in photographic craft for the Licentiate, broad based advanced skills in the Associate and mastery of photographic art for the Fellowship.
The Honours Board: Bruce Girdwood (chair), Stephanie Forrester, (secretary) Meg Lipscombe, Tracey Scott, Bevan Tulett, Helen McLeod and Paul Byrne
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