The Institute shall be known as the Malta Institute of Professional Photography or M.I.P.P.
The main objective being the furtherance and improvement of photography and photography practitioners in all aspects.
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The Malta Institute of Professional Photography (or M.I.P.P.) has been set up to improve the technical knowledge and professional status as well as the image of persons involved in the Photographic Industry. It is also dedicated to achieve and maintain standards in professional practice and conduct for the benefit of photography and buyers of photography and to safeguard, monitor and deal with matters which affect professional photography. |
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It is also the purpose of the MIPP to be an authoritative voice for professional photographers and the trade in order to be able to lobby on issues concerning the working photographer.A person is eligible for Full Membership if he earns the majority of his income from Professional Photography. Persons owning a police photographic shop or laboratory licence, and/or a VAT number to work as photographer and earning their livelihood from the Photographic Trade are eligible also. A Student section is also run to cater for those persons who are looking towards taking photography as a profession. A great deal has been achieved since the Institute has been in operation, (the first meeting was held on the 30th of July, 1996). The Institutefs aim is to run in a professional as well as commercial basis and this has been fully achieved. |
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In these few years, the MIPP has become the professional photographerfs voice with the Government, it has run international Seminars aimed at improving the skills of its members, it has organised photographic exhibitions and fora as well as striven to make the public more aware of the local photographer and his products. The MIPP has also done Malta's own Photographic Distinctions and Qualifications, running these on the same lines as those of other European Countries. Last year it also inaugurated the MIPP Malta Photographer of the Year Award as well as the MIPP Awards of Achievement, thus further strenghtening the esteem and the status of the Maltese photographer. |
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Keeping abreast of the changing needs of the profession, the MIPP is also now an active member of the Federation of European Photographers. The purpose of the MIPP is to continue to improve, teach and collaborate in all spheres of the Photographic circuit, both locally as well as internationally. |
