ASPP DC/South Chapter

ASPP member photographers are invited to display their work in a digital slide show at the ASPP table at Picturehouse, Thursaday, April 16th.

Submission Guidelines: Files must be web-resolution (72 dpi), approximately 1440 pixels wide by 1008 pixels tall (20″ x 14″), files may be cropped/adjusted to fit monitor. Include a modest text-only watermark with your copyright line in the lower right corner of files (so people know who shot the fantastic images!).

File names must have a prefix of YOUR NAME (example: BrigetteSullivan_2334fgrt454gtfg.jpg)Maximun five images per member.

Upload your files at:

https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/index.php?action=folder&folder_num=5970613

login: Brigette-OFP
password: photos319

Deadline: submit all files no later than Wednesday, April 15th by 5pm.

An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story, the documentary based on Adams’ famous photograph of a Vietcong prisoner being executed by Saigon police chief General Nygoc Loan, will be screened in Washington DC at the Avalon theatre and in Baltimore at The Charles theatre.

See the trailer here

Related videos on youtube.

Hello Spring! And hello ASPP DC/South members! Welcome to our spring newsletter. This newsletter is full of information about new happenings going on with ASPP DC/South….Read on….

ASPP DC/South has launched a blog! Please bookmark us at www.asppdcsouth.com. The blog will be updated with upcoming events, showcase members work and be a better way for us to communicate with you.

Here are a few things we are looking for to add to our blog:

If you would like to be listed as a member of ASPP DC/South with a link to your website please send that information to jennasppdc@gmail.com. Please put BLOG in the subject heading

Please share your images of Washington, DC for our blog homepage!  Member’s images will rotate every three months in groups of three.  Please submit the actual file (without any crops) at 72 dpi and your photo credit. to sjohn24@gmail.com. Please put BLOG IMAGES in the subject heading.

Send us your events – know of an event coming up members might want to attend ? Do you have an opening coming up or have published a new book ? Send us that information for our blog – We love to share with other members what is happening. Send your information to sjohn24@gmail.com or jennasppdc@gmail.com. Please put EVENTS in the subject line.

Our first See, Share and Sip were very successful so we are making it a quarterly event. Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 14th and see below for more details on how to share your work.

SPRING ASPP DC/SOUTH – SHARE, SEE AND SIP

ASPP DC/South invites its chapter members and guests for the second “Share, See and Sip” of 2009. We will gather at Busboys and Poets in downtown Washington DC on May 14, 2009.

• Share your work (See what is being shared below)
• See what’s new for ASPP DC/South
• Sip some great coffee and beverages while meeting other members

Submitting entries for Slideshow

Members are invited to send in their completed/ongoing photo stories, multimedia projects, or scripts/summary of a topic/project on photography they would like to talk about. The time duration of each presentation will be 15 minutes, inclusive of a Q&A session. Five entries will be selected for the evening. If we get lots of entries, they will be scheduled for another evening.

Deadline
Please send your entries to Sebastian John at sjohn24@gmail.com and/or Rose Engelland at Rose.Engelland@chronicle.com by May 5, 2009.

For questions, call Sebastian at 202-302-8363 or email him. Presenters are encouraged to bring in their own laptops. ‘Busboys and Poets has audio/video equipment, to which the laptops can be connected. If you don’t have a laptop please let us know in advance.

To RSVP for this event: Please email jennasppdc@gmail.com

Date
Thursday, May 14, 2009
7 PM – 9PM

Venue
Busboys and Poets
Cullen Room
1025 5th Street NW (corner of 5th and K St NW)
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 789-2227

Getting There and Parking
Closest metros: Mt. Vernon Square and Gallery Place-Chinatown (each two blocks away)
There is ample car parking space near the venue.

Entry
ASPP members – free
Guests – $5
ASPP DC/South will not provide refreshments but Busboys and Poets has a full-service
restaurant and bar

Facebook

We now have our own Facebook Page – Please join us on ASPP DC/South Facebook page and connect with other ASPP DC/South members. www.facebook.com

LinkedIn

Are you a member of LinkedIn – Both the ASPP National and ASPP DC/South has groups on LinkedIn. Our LinkedIn group supports ASPP’s mission: an open exchange of information and ideas on photo industry ethics and standards, business practices, and needs created by new technology. www.linkedin.com

LOCAL EVENTS

LOOK 3 – Festival of the Photograph – Charlottesville, Va – June 11 – 13, 2009
a program of exhibitions, workshops, interviews, outdoor screenings, and special events, the Festival attracts professional and amateur photographers from around the world to Charlottesville’s picturesque historic downtown.

LOOK3 Scholarship for Students

Attention students in the DC area! LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph has a great photo workshop opportunity this June 6-13 in Charlottesville, Virginia. With funding from Canon USA and Leica they are offering 10 full workshop scholarships to undergraduate or graduate level enrolled students for courses taught by David Alan Harvey with James Nachtwey, Larry Fink, Nina Berman, and Eugene Richards. Deadline to apply is May 1, 2009. Full details and instructions for how to apply is at the website

DC Wedding Business Skills workshop: June 4-7, 2009
In honor of the great spending stimulus plans, Momenta has lowered the price of the wedding business skills workshop for this June 4-7, 2009.
You can find all the information for this workshop including a registration button listed at http://www.momentaworkshops.com/wed09.php This workshop is really going to be like wedding photography boot camp but we hope everyone will leave with the materials in hand to make their wedding business a huge success. Email me at jamie@momentaworkshops.com for any questions or information about discount options.

NATIONAL EVENTS

HOW Design Conference – Austin, Texas – June 24 – 27, 2009

The 2009 Conference will feature 45+ sessions on everything from Photoshop to collaborating with clients; 8 workshops; Austin Studio Tours, a huge design Resource Center and more. The Early-Bird deadline has been extended to May 1—register today to save $100!

NPPA Convergence 09 – Las Vegas, NV – June 6 -13, 2009

This is the most exciting week in visual journalism, and if you are a freelance, staff, still or TV shooter, a department head or line editor, a reporter newly responsible for visuals… this is the must attend event for you in 2009.

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

Truth With A Camera Workshop 2009– Guadalajara, Mexico – May 23-31, 2009

Imagine children as young as 6-years-old, running in and out of traffic on a 6-lane highway, trying to sell a piece of gum, wash a windshield, or juggle oranges for change. They lack education, suffer from malnutrition, and are surrounded by a world of danger and loneliness. Now imagine it is your job to tell the whole world who these children are. To breath light into an existence too few know about. That’s the critical role photographers working with non-profits and NGO’s play. It is exactly what you’ll be tasked with if you join our next Truth With A Camera workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Women Only Bolivia 2009 with Carol Guzy & Cathaleen Curtiss – June 29 –July 11, 2009

During Bolivia’s brief winter season, we travel from frosted mount peaks to salt flats, from metropolis to fishing villages in this complex and vibrant South American Country. Teaming up with Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) and instructors Cathaleen Curtiss, Director of Photography of AOL and Carol Guzy, acclaimed photographer for The Washington Post; this workshop will be a one of kind experience. For more info click at WPOW and Momenta Workshops.