PhotoQuest 2026
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26th Annual Camera Club Exhibit & Contest
PhotoQuest 2026 is almost here! This exciting Members-Only Photo Contest & Exhibition is your opportunity to showcase your best photography and compete for top honors.
Exhibition Details
Location: Kerr Arts & Cultural Center
Exhibit Dates: July 30 – August 22
Important Dates to Remember
July 27 – Check-in (12:30 – 1:30 PM)
Club “Awards” Meeting TBD
July 30 – Exhibit Opens
August 8 – Reception (2 – 4 PM)
August 22 – Exhibit Closes
August 24 – Pick-up Artwork
(9 :30 – 11 AM)
Contest & Awards
This is a judged competition with ribbons awarded in four categories, plus Best of Show and People’s Choice. Winners will be announced at the Club “Awards” Meeting on July 30th.
Eligibility & Membership Requirements
To participate, you must be a current HCCC member with membership dues paid by March 31, 2026.
Online Registration Form
Our Judge
The Hill Country Camera Club is pleased to welcome Professor Robin Dru Germany, Texas Tech University, Lubbock as the Judge for our annual “PHOTOQUEST EXHIBITON” to be held from July 30 through August 22 at the Kerr Arts & Cultural Center, Kerrville, Texas.
The highly anticipated HCCC PhotoQuest Awards Program will be held on Opening Night, July 30, 7 pm at KACC in the Avery Gallery. Professor Germany will present each award, announcing for the first time which pieces of artwork have received awards, resulting in a suspenseful evening. Professor Germany will offer an educational critique for each awarded piece during the program.
Awards will be given for placement in the Categories of:
- Traditional Color
- Traditional Monochrome
- Augmented Color
- Augmented Monochrome
The program will culminate with the announcement of the “Best of Show 2026” Award. Attendees may vote for the “People’s Choice Award” to be presented at a later date.
Reception to follow on Saturday, August 8, from 2-4 pm at KACC.
Robin Dru Germany, BA (Philosophy-Tulane), MFA (Photography-University of North Texas) is a Professor in Photography at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Her research investigates the tenuous border between the human and the natural worlds. Through the use of metaphor and storytelling, her images explore differences between these two environments and their interdependence. Amid current climate crisis considerations, she asserts the only path to change is through radical empathy and blurring of the line that separates our bodies from the environment in which we live and draw our life forces.
Germany has exhibited her photographs at the Fort Wayne Art Museum; the Center for Photography at Woodstock; the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati; the New York Hall of Science; in Arezzo, Italy at the Fotografia Festival; the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christie, TX; and in galleries and museums around the country. Germany has received numerous Texas Tech University research grants and her photographs may be seen in the Collections of the Center for Photography Woodstock; Texas Tech Museum of Art; the Boise Art Museum; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; as well as in private collections. Recently she was awarded a one month artist’s residency at the Bloedel Reserve in Bainbridge, WA. One of her photographs was included in the Contemporary Artists section of the newest edition of the seminal Photography textbook, edited by Jim Stone and Barbara London. Her work was included in 2025 at the Mulhouse Photo Biennial in Mulhouse, France, and this year, will be in the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art’s “Art is Number #2” exhibition in South Korea. Some of Robin’s images may be seen at: www.robingermany.com
Germany will serve as the 2026 judge for the Hill Country Camera Club’s annual PhotoQuest show at the Kerr Arts & Cultural Center, July 30 – August 22.
