ASPP DC/South Chapter

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. The four presenters on May 14 are Jamie Rose, Karen Kasmauski, Eric Neilsen and Amy Deputy.

Jamie Rose

“As newspaper and editorial budgets get smaller and smaller, many photographers are looking to nonprofits to help supplement their
documentary works. Jamie Rose, a documentary photographer and Director of Workshops for Momenta, will be discussing what its like to do nonprofit photography and how to work with nonprofits in the field. She will be showing a slideshow of hers and Momenta photographers work from the field with international nonprofits. She will discuss trends in nonprofit photography, discuss business practices in marketing yourself to nonprofits and explore what it means to work as a documentarian in the nonprofit sector.”

“International award winning photojournalist Jamie Rose has worked in over 4 continents, won awards and grants for her documentary photography and has been on contract with some of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations. A graduate of American University and Syracuse’s Newhouse School, Jamie has been working in Washington since 2003.

While she began her career as a newspaper photographer covering politics mainly for The New York Times, Jamie’s true passion has always been working on humanitarian issues and documenting the work of health care workers. She currently divides her time between photographing and working as the Director of Workshops for Momenta Workshops, a division of Momenta Group based here in Washington, D.C.

In her free time, she’s a member of WHNPA, NPPA and the President of WPOW (Women Photojournalists of Washington). When she’s not doing all the above, she tries to go mountain biking as much as possible with her fiancé and business partner, communications consultant Chris Anderson.”

Karen Kasmauski

To care. To advocate. To innovate. To be a nurse.

In a moving tapestry of words and photographs, Nurse: A World of Care documents and celebrates the vital and often invisible work of nurses throughout the globe. The many faces and voices of nurses are captured in compelling detail by photographer Karen Kasmauski and writer Peter Jaret. Together they paint an unforgettable and varied portrait of the profession, from the nurse midwives who walk long distances to deliver basic health care in the remote villages of Bangladesh, to the Alaska public health nurse who lives out of a sleeping bag to reach her patients, to the Thai hospice nurses who comfort and care for patients with AIDS.

Nursing requires expertise, ingenuity, and a deep sense of compassion. Like the profession it celebrates, this book appeals to both hearts and minds. Around the world, health care delivery systems are in crisis. In the poorest places, millions of people lack access to even the most basic care.

An Emory University funded project Karen traveled over 13 countries and multiple locations in the United States to complete the book.

Karen Kasmauski’s groundbreaking coverage’s on viruses, women’s issues, aging, immigration, and other pressing social topics have been featured in some 30 articles for National Geographic. While a Contributing Photographer-in-Residence for the Geographic, she brokered a global health initiative between the Centers for Disease Control and the Geographic’s Missions Program. Her book, Impact: From the Frontlines of Global Health, co-authored with Peter Jaret, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2003.

Eric Neilsen

Eric will present in a video format a quick look at his workflow; with a light run through of Adobe Lightroom to Photoshop. He also plans to show his editing process to achieve the look that shows up in some of his images. Eric will transition to presentation of images in more of a standard slide show format of the impressionism that he is working with now. Eric’s photography shows our surroundings in a more contemplative way
and not so much in a confrontational way or tragic pace or place of the human condition.

Eric Neilsen, owner of Eric Neilsen Photography (www.ericneilsenphotography.com), of Dallas, Texas, has been shooting since 1978. His fine art hangs in many private collections. A portrait photographer by background, he has taught workshops in platinum/palladium printing since 1992, his writing has appeared in Photo Vision magazine, Studio Photography, Digital Camera Buyers Guide and The Journal of Post Factory Photography.

Neilsen shoots in both film and digital, and produces in traditional media of B&W silver gelatin and platinum/palladium, and digital output to canvas, fiber paper, and to contact digital negatives. He also has video production experience as the Media Production Specialist for the Department of Special Education at the San Francisco Unified School District during the 1980’s. Eric also currently works as a consultant with Imagenomic LLC makers of Noiseware, Portraiture and RealGrain plug ins for Photoshop

Amy Deputy

American Photo rated Amy as one of top ten photographers wedding photographers of 2009. Amy will chronicle her journey from Kentucky to
the Baltimore Sun to my family’s illnesses to the wedding world. “Shadow and grace”.

Amy a former photojournalist and picture editor with the Balitmore Sun, began her wedding photography as a favor for a friend in 2001.