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Tell Us About Your Books!
Promote your book and help ASMP at the same time by encouraging people to buy your book through ASMP at Amazon. The ASMP Member Bookstore will launch as soon as we have 50 or more titles to offer, so act today and make this resource a reality! Fill out this form today.
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PhotoPlus Just Days Away!
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PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo, brought to you by PDN, is coming up October 27 - 29th at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC. Once again, ASMP will hold the Annual Meeting during this event and participate in a number of other ways.
- ASMP's Annual Member Meeting is Friday the 28th from 6pm to 8pm in Room 1A23 - remember, the first 100 to attend receive free tickets to one of ASMP's Saturday seminars.
- Don't be shy - stop by the ASMP booth (#1276) during the show and say hello!
- There's still time for members to sign up for free consultations.
- A representative from the Copyright Office will be at the ASMP booth Friday the 28th to answer questions.
- ASMP-sponsored seminars will be presented during the show.
- The ASMP Architectural Specialty Group meeting will be held at PPE on Friday October 28th, from 1pm-3pm in Room 2D09.
- There will be a book signing by Education Director Susan Carr on Thursday, October 27, at 1 pm inside the ASMP booth for The Art and Business of Photography.
Learn more about the expo here.
Find out more about ASMP's activities here.
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Free Webinar Series Continues
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The series of ten free webinars jointly produced by ASMP and Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to educate creators and users on copyright, licensing and monetization of content started off with a bang earlier this month with record-setting registration from many corporate buyers of visual materials, as well as photographers and other imaging professionals. "
The Future of Art & Commerce: What creators and users of visual content need to know in these challenging times" continues on October 19th with the program "Registering Copyrights in the U.S." with Jim Cavanaugh & Michele Ayers and on November 15th with "Understanding Fair Use" with Fred Haber & Vic Perlman. Sign up here to reserve your spot.
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YPA Presents Scholarship Awards
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Young Photographers Alliance (YPA) the educational foundation dedicated to developing the talent of young photographers, has announced five scholarship awards, including two sponsored by ASMP, to talented photographers from across the US. YPA is honored to have Deborah Willis, Lois Greenfield, Albert Watson, Theresa Raffetto and Hans Neleman present this year's awards to the five scholarship winners at the YPA Award Ceremony and Benefit Auction, to be held at the Calumet Studio, New York, from 7pm to 10pm on Wednesday, October 19th. Photo essays submitted by the award winners are available to download
here.
For more information or to buy tickets to the event, go here.
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FotoWeek DC Launches Photography Festival
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Visitors are expected to come from far and wide to see the numerous exhibits, workshops, lectures, and events of the 4th Annual Photography Festival. The Festival will be held November 5th - 12th and ASMP's DC Chapter is one of the sponsors. This year FotoWeek DC programming can be found at FotoWeek Central, the designated festival hub, four satellite locations including FotoSpace, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, George Washington University, and Pepco's Edison Gallery Place, as well as numerous partner venues. All programming is open to the public and most is free with registration. For more information, go to
www.fotoweekdc.org.
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The next meeting of ASMP's Board of Directors will be held November 18-20 and will include a special long-range planning session. If there are any issues you would like to bring to the attention of the Board in advance of the meeting, please contact President Jim Cavanaugh at cavanaugh@asmp.org.
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Strictly Business 3 Sponsor MAC Group is now offering SB3 videos on its MAC-On-Campus educational support website. MAC generates educational materials and programs to make sure that the photographers of tomorrow are trained and equipped to face the challenges they face. Included are several SB3 programs as MAC advances its goal of helping students become better educated and prepared to succeed. You can view MAC's site
here and please feel free to share the videos with others.
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As part of the Copyright Alliance's "Creatives Across America" initiative, ASMP Life Member John Mutrux was interviewed and filmed by Member Aneal Vohra about the importance of copyright and licensing as a key role in his successful photography career. This video is part of the Copyright Alliance's "Creatives Across America" initiative and can be viewed here.
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Five of Jim Wark's images will be part of U.S. Postal Service series of stamps called Earthscapes. The sheet of stamps, according to the Postal Service, is an homage to the "beauty and diversity of America's landscape as seen from above." The images were captured from aircraft or Earth-observing satellites. Jim also is the author of the new books Leave No Trace and The World of Mining. To learn more, go here.
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Tom Hussey, Dallas based advertising photographer, was listed by ADWEEK as one of the Top 10 Creatives in the world and the only American listed in the Top 10. Read more.
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Dave Frieder was covered in a New York Times blog entitled "Photographer Declares Bridge-Clambering Days Done." You can read the blog here.
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Mark Maio will open his exhibition, Against the Grain: Buffalo's Irish Grain Scoopers, on October 19th the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY. The opening coincides with the start of the Nation Preservation Conference being held in Buffalo and will be on view through December 17. For more info, email info@cepagallery.com.
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Ellen Denuto's exhibition, The Artist as Art, a series of intimate portraits, will be displayed at The Gallery at Hallmark through December 18th. More information.
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Matt Herron's show at UC Berkeley was highlighted in a cover story (Ovation Section) in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more about him here.
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Photographer Frans Lanting and videographer Chris Eckstrom are giving a special joint presentation at the National Geographic Society as part of their "Masters of Photography" lecture series on Friday October 21 at 7:30 pm. The show is based on our recent fieldwork in Namibia, which was published in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic Magazine and in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler. Get tickets here.
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In Memoriam: Sadly, Bob Golding passed away on October 5th. He was an ASMP Life Member and long time member of the Philadelphia Chapter. Throughout his life he worked as a successful professional photographer and teacher and loved his career.
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ASMP Executive Director Eugene Mopsik has a busy couple of weeks planned in New York prior to the Photo Plus Expo. He will attend the Young Photographers Alliance (YPA) Board Meeting, as well as the YPA Award Ceremony and Benefit Auction on October 19th. The next day Mopsik and Communications Director Pete Dyson will represent ASMP at Visual Connections' New York Image Expo 2011, presenting an option to stock photography. Mopsik will also attend a Picture Archive Council of America (PACA)
meeting with representatives of various photographic groups and interests, and he will be at the Lucie Awards ceremony for the international photography awards on October 24th.
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General Counsel Victor Perlman will attend the Annual General Meeting of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) this month in Ljubljana, Slovenia on behalf of ASMP, where he will be presenting brief reports on the status of orphan works and the visual artists' lawsuit against Google.
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Novera Payment Solutions offers transparent flat fee pricing for credit card processing services. Let Novera show how your business can save with a cost comparison of their flat fee program versus your current provider. And, for a limited time, they are offering ASMP members the opportunity to receive a virtual terminal for a discounted price of only $49.95 (regularly $99.00) if you switch payment processing to Novera. This virtual terminal allows you to easily accept credit or debit cards through any internet enabled computer. The offer is good through the December 31st. For more information,
go here.
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Momenta/Leica Workshop Discount
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In celebration of FotoWeekDC, Momenta Workshops and Leica Camera are hosting a one-day seminar " The Art & Business of Nonprofit Photography." ASMP members receive a special 20% discount on this program, which covers contracts, client negotiations, marketing tips, grant writing, crowd sourcing and crowd funding, portfolio presentation tips and more. To find out more about the offer, go here. To learn more about the workshops, see
momentaworkshops.com.
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15% Off Lucie Awards Gala Tix
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For the 9th consecutive year, the Lucie Awards celebrate the greatest achievements in photography the world over. This year, the gala moves to Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, on Monday, October 24, 2011, and ASMP members get a discount of 15%. To get the discount, go here. To find out more about the event, go to
www.lucieawards.com.
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Portfolio Review Discounts at PPE
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The Palm Springs Photo Festival and Photo District News have teamed up once again to present an important series of portfolio reviews during this year's PhotoPlus Expo. Show your work to book publishers, magazine photo editors, gallery directors, reps, museum curators, advertising agency creatives, music company art directors and more. The cost is $250 for 5 reviews. ASMP Members receive a 10% discount! Find Out More.
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Stockbox is offering members a 10% discount on their purchase of any software license, giving them up to a $109.95 discount. To take advantage of this discount, go here.
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Premiere Pro Discount
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Adobe is offering a discount of 50% off Production Premium or Premiere Pro CS5.5 to all current Final Cut Pro and Avid users. To learn more about this offer, go here.
Offer expires October 31st.
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