American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) DC/South chapter invites all photography enthusiasts to join us for the second DC Picture Show on March 18, 2010.

The DC Picture Show will be held at the 5^th and K Street Busboys and Poets Restaurant in downtown Washington DC.

DATE – March 18, 2010 (Thursday)
LOCATION - 5^th and K Street Busboys and Poets Restaurant 1025 5th St NW Washington, DC 20001 (MAP)
TIME – 6:30 pm to 9 pm
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 FEE - Entry to the show is free for ASPP members. Non-members will be charged $5.00
ASPP does not provide refreshments for the event, but Busboys and Poets has a full-service restaurant and bar.

The presenters for the second DC Picture Show are Stephen Crowley and Lesley Frowick.

Stephen Crowley

Crowley will present his portfolio of work which records President Barack Obama's first year in office.  He'll also show images from his current book project  "Times Spent: Florida 1972-1984".

Stephen Crowley approaches his work with the same sense of exploration and wonder as when he was armed with a "Polaroid Swinger" at the age of 13. Over the last 25 years he has tried to find insightful moments in the midst of breaking national and international news that can sometimes define, in a single image, politics and culture.

In his personal work Crowley searches for morsels of humanity, irony and humor, collecting images of the country's character as hinted by physical structures, shifting light patterns and happenstance.

In 2002, Crowley, a graduate of the photography program at Daytona State College, was cited as "Photographer of the Year" by the White House News Photographers' Association for a portfolio that included his essays "Voices of Afghanistan" and "A Day in the Life of President Bush."  The same year Crowley and four other photographers at The New York Times were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for work produced during the war in Afghanistan.  In 2002 he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C.  In 2005 American Photo Magazine included Crowley on its list of the 100 Most Important People in Photography.

His personal photography has been exhibited in shows at the Library of Congress, The National  Geographic Society, and the Corcoran Art Museum.

Lesley Frowick

In 1989 Frowick drove cross-country on a 26-foot 1967 model Airstream, a once in a lifetime personal journey of discovery to explore our great country. Frowick recorded the trip on her Nikon and Hassleblad in B+W and Kodachrome. She explored the nation’s capital to Amish country, the sticky Southern swamps to the parched deserts of the Wild West, discovering our glorious peppered with (as her mom would say) "High Tack" country. In 2009, which marked the 20th anniversary the “Great American Airstream Dream”– Frowick repeated the trip - this time with a 2 pounds 12 inches Airstream model and her son in tow, to explore post dot-com America. She will present images from both the trips.

Lesley attended a year-long photography program at the International Center of Photography on the heels of a year in the NY fashion world.  She assisted in commercial studios for five years before moving to California where she established  her freelance photography business shooting commercial product shots, portraits and events.  She has been published in numerous magazines including House and Garden, SPAN and Vanity Fair, and aired on CBS.  Her photographs have been exhibited in San Francisco, CA wine country and Puerto Rico.  Currently she works at National Geographic in the Image Collection clearing rights for Digital Media.  She continues to travel and explore the world, shooting mostly nature and human interest photography with a whimsical twist.

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Wednesday, January 13
7 p.m.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street, NW

$12 Corcoran Members and ASPP members; $15 Public

Pre-registration for this program is encouraged. To register, please call (202) 639-1774 or visit www.corcoran.org.

American Society of Picture Professionals members will receive the discounted Corcoran member rate of $12 to attend. To receive the member rate online, please use the member code: ASPP.

American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) DC/South chapter invites its chapter members and guests to join us for “DC Picture Show” in 2010. The DC Picture Show was launched in 2009 as the “Share, See and Sip” with three events throughout the year.   The DC Picture Show will kick off the first event on January 28, 2010 at Busboys and Poets in downtown Washington DC.

All the shows will be held at the 5^th and K Street Busboys and Poets Restaurant in downtown Washington DC. The restaurant provides excellent audio/video facilities.

DATE – January 28, 2010 (Thursday)
LOCATION - 5^th and K Street Busboys and Poets Restaurant 1025 5th St NW Washington, DC 20001 (MAP)
TIME – 6:30 pm to 9 pm
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 FEE - Entry to the show is free for ASPP members. Non-members will be charged $5.00
ASPP does not provide refreshments for the event, but Busboys and Poets has a full-service restaurant and bar.

The inaugural DC Picture Show will showcase works by ASPP members Vanessa Vick and Judy Heffner.

Vanessa Vick will present her work on the oil economy in Angola, and how it is fueling a construction boom by the Chinese who are hungry for natural resources. Currently the Chinese are building roads, fancy shopping malls and expensive houses at a rapid pace while the majority of Angolans are still living in abject poverty.

In addition she will show photographs of recipients of micro finance in Uganda and Malawi.  A small amount of investment with knowledge of how to save, plan for the future and create a business plan can completely change people’s lives and help bring them out of poverty.

Judy Heffner will present her photography essay “On the Avenue, Faces of Del Ray,” which documents the entrepreneurs of Del Ray, Alexandria through environmental portraits, and profiles of their businesses.

The book grew out of a project at Northern Virginia Community College on documenting the new Northern Virginia.  Del Ray had been a neighborhood in decline with an interesting history that has been revitalized in recent years, and transformed into a vibrant, eclectic, family-friendly community with a wide, and growing, variety of small businesses.

About Vanessa Vick

Vanessa Vick has worked around the world, in recent years focusing on Africa, where she has become known for her compelling portraits of life on the continent in stories ranging from brutal rebel insurgencies to public health campaigns.

Vanessa began her career studying commercial photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and soon after began shooting feature photos and environmental portraits. She worked for several years as a photo editor at the legendary photo agency Sygma and later at U.S. News & World Report in New York City.

After receiving a master’s degree in photojournalism from Ohio University in 2001, Vanessa moved to Uganda on a Fulbright scholarship to document how AIDS had ravaged the lives of individual Africans. She has lived there ever since. A regular contributor to The New York Times, Vanessa has worked on such stories as the disintegration of the Zimbabwean economy, the inner workings of the Ogaden rebel group in Ethiopia and immunization campaigns in Nigeria.

She has also worked for Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and The Boston Globe as well as Essence, Vibe, The Guardian, and The Discovery Channel. She has extensively documented the two-decade long insurgency that has torn apart the social fabric of northern Uganda. Vanessa also shoots regularly for humanitarian organizations including the World Food Program, The United Nations, Doctors Without Borders and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.

Vanessa recently relocated to Reston, Virginia where she will be based until the end of 2010 and will most likely return to Africa at that time.

About Judy Heffner

An accomplished portrait, documentary and fine art photographer, Judy Heffner always looks for the art in everyday life, which is often a different way of seeing people, familiar places, and ordinary objects in their customary surroundings.  In addition to her regular work, she has volunteered her time to document the outreach efforts of several area non-profit, public service groups including the Network Preschools,  which serves at risk children and their families, and the Freddie Mac Heart Galleries,  whose mission is placing foster children in permanent homes, with the aid of professionally made photographic portraits..  Judy studied photography at Northern Virginia Community College where she serves as a teaching assistant.

Judy holds a bachelor’s degree in English and publication from Simmons College, worked as a reporter and photographer for several community newspapers, and published an interview with former N.Y. Times Observer columnist Russell Baker in Editor and Publisher magazine while a student. She also holds a Master of Social Work degree from Catholic University.  Before launching her photographic career, Judy worked as press aide to former New York Congressman Ogden Reid, legislative assistant to Sen. Patrick Leahy, public affairs director for a national trade association, and as a public relations consultant.   She also worked as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist. She also has taught photography at the Howard Gardner School in Alexandria.

Her work has been exhibited at the Art League and Del Ray Artisans’ galleries, the Tyler Teaching Gallery at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria City Hall, and the John F. Kennedy Center.

Host: ASPP DC/South
Location: Busboys and Poets – Cullen Room
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001 US
When: Thursday, December 10, 6:30PM to 9:00PM
Phone: 703-391-6889

Please join us for the ASPP DC/South Holiday Get Together.

Gather with fellow ASPP Members and Friends to Celebrate the Holidays. We will provide light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.

There will be a cash bar but if you RSVP by Dec 6th then you get a ticket for one free drink !

ASPP Members are allowed to bring one guest. There will be a small charge of $10 that night for your guest.

PLEASE RSVP via this Evite

2009 Investigating Where We Live

Thirty students. Thirty cameras. Twelve days. Three neighborhoods. These are the ingredients for Investigating Where We Live (IWWL), a 4-week summer program created by the National Building Museum in which middle and high school students from the Washington, D.C. metro area use digital cameras to explore D.C. neighborhoods.

The exhibition is on view to the public from August 8, 2009 through January 18, 2010. For more details click here

Evolution of Journalism

Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager

Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager showcases images from Philip Trager’s 40-year career, including new work exhibited publicly for the first time. Most of the 90 photographs in the 3,000-square-foot exhibition are black and white platinum, gelatin silver, or Iris prints, with the exception of Trager’s recent explorations with bold color. The exhibition includes striking images of New England, expansive New York cityscapes, the Italian villas of Andrea Palladio, Paris along the Seine, and remarkable depictions of modern dance.

Philip Trager is one of the foremost contemporary photographers of architecture and dance. Library Journal said, “Trager has spent more than 40 years making photographs that transform our physical world into moments of clarity and brightness unique to the medium.” Trager has exhibited widely and published numerous books, including the retrospective Philip Trager (2006), Dancers (1992), Photographs of Architecture (1977), and The Villas of Palladio (1986). He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut

For more details visit ASPP DC/South blog and National Building Museum