Founded in 1919, the Hart House Camera Club (HHCC) is one of North America’s oldest student photography clubs.
In 1922, the HHCC held its First Annual Exhibition of Photography. Continuing to this day, the exhibition has become one of the longest-running photography contests in North America. The main motivation of the HHCC Annual Exhibition is to allow the members of the HHCC to show their creative work to a broader audience. To allow more diversity and a more comprehensive range of work, the annual exhibition has nine different categories, which have changed over the years. The categories include Film Prints (Mastery of Printing and Mastery of Execution), Portrait, People, Places, Nature, Altered Images, Campus Life and Photographic Essay categories.
HHCC embraces accessible and equal opportunities for learning by having the membership open to all with no prior experience or portfolio needed. HHCC’s mission is to help people understand photography as a powerful communication tool and help our members improve and deepen their photography skills by providing various programs including Photo Walks, Critical Salons, talks, presentations and workshops covering various darkroom processes.
Our Darkroom offers chemicals and tools for members to develop black-and-white film and create prints from negatives. Our Digital Suite is used for scanning negatives and photo editing. The suite has a scanner that can accommodate most negative types and access to Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Acrobat for image editing.
Hours
The Darkrooms close 30 minutes before the building. The Digital Suite available any time the Hart House building is open and there are no events taking place in the Map Room. Please visit the Hart House Website for updated building hours.
Club Executives
Club Co-Chairs: Danny Choi, Auden Cole
Treasurer: Tanmay Patel
Secretary: Melissa Yau
Darkroom Curators: Emilia Astani, Aymeric Barbeau, Auden Cole, Tanmay Patel
Digital Suite Curators: Zack Fine, Tanmay Patel
Exhibition Coordinator: Greg Cooke
Critical Salon Coordinator: YiLin Luan
Event Photography Director: Danny Choi
Event Photography Coordinator: Suzy Sun
Photo Walk Facilitator: Diana Tyszko
Photo Walk Coordinator: Scarlett Chen
Communication and Events Coordinator: Michelle Woo
UTM Representative: Gerico Mateo
Darkroom and Photo Instructors: Aymeric Barbeau, Auden Cole, Micah Donovan, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Tanmay Patel, Masoud Riyazati, Zoe Teng
Artists-in-Residence
Winter 2023 – Masoud Riyazati
Fall-Winter 2023–24 – Dainesha Nugent-Palache
Fall-Winter 2024–25 – Teresa Hulinska
Visitor Information
Please visit the Hart House Website for information on accessibility, parking, and directions by subway, bus, car and Wheeltrans.