PSM organizes programs including, photo-walks, photo-tours, classes, workshops, salons and exhibitions, on most weeks of the year.

Because of his proximity to the corridor of power, Walter Elliot inducted Lord Harris, the Governor of the Madras Presidency as the four Southern States of India were known before Independence and then his successor, Sir Charles Trevelyn as members of the society.

In the earlier years of its formation, its members were mostly Europeans - army men and civilians alike.

The society met regularly in the premises of the School of Industrial Arts and held annual exhibitions.

Linnaeus Tripe, a pioneering photographer of British India, was one of the earliest members of this society.