DC/South
In Our Backyard and Across the World: A Photographic Journey - Nov 8
ASPP DC/South presents a unique journey during FotoWeek DC 2010, with two renowned, award-winning photographers, who have spent the past two decades traveling across the world and in their own backyards, both on very different endeavors. They will share their own cultural stories and present images from their intimate insider perspectives. You will be educated, challenged, motivated, and entertained by their photographic vision. 
Start the journey with New York based documentary photographer Alison Wright, as she takes us to some of the remotest regions of the world, focusing on human rights issues and the traditions of changing cultures around the world. She will be presenting her wide volume of work which includes Afghanistan, Antarctica, Mongolia, Southeast Asia and Tibet, in addition to her intrepid recent travels into communist Cuba and earthquake ravaged Haiti.
Next, travel with Jonathan Newton, staff photographer with The Washington Post, when he invites us on a thrill ride into the world of documentary sports photography. He will give us a behind the scenes journey on the emotion and passion of major, high-profile sporting events across the globe. From the Olympics, to the World Series, to pageantry of local high school sports, this will be a rare opportunity to see his unique images presented as one body of work.
At the end of this journey, both Alison and Jonathan will respond to questions about their photography and working methods from the audience.
Details:
ASPP DC/South - FotoWeek DC 2010 Festival Event
In Our Backyard and Across the World: A Photographic Journey
When:
Monday, November 8, 2010
6:30pm-7:00 pm - Registration and Networking
7:00pm-9:00 pm - A Photographic Journey with Alison and Jonathan
Where:
US Navy Memorial-Heritage Center
701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Suite 123
Washington, DC 2004-2608
202-380-0747
http://navymemorial.org
NOTE – US Navy Memorial-Heritage Center is located directly behind the circular outdoor plaza that faces Pennsylvania Ave. Look for our ASPP sign near the entrance.
Metro: Archives-Navy Memorial - Yellow and Green Line
Parking: (fees may vary)
There are several parking garages within a two-block radius of the Navy Memorial.
Adjacent to Caucus Room Restaurant on D Street, N.W. between 8th and 9th Streets, N.W. Monday-Friday, 6:00am-12:00am (midnight)
Adjacent to the Café Atlantico Restaurant on 8th Street, N.W., between D and E Streets, N.W. Monday-Friday, 6:00am-12:00am (midnight)
Street parking is also available on most streets, but be sure to pay close attention to the street signs as parking may be restricted during certain hours. Metered parking is available for two-hour slots.
Cost:
ASPP Members $10
Sister Organization Members: (ASMP, APA, NANPA, WPOW, NPPA, WHPPA) $12
Non-Members: $15
Students: $5
Register: Please register online!
More about our presenters:
Alison Wright, a New York based documentary photographer, has spent a career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs. Influenced by her years of living in Asia, her work documents the traditions and changes of people and cultures throughout the remotest regions of the world.
Alison’s photography is represented by National Geographic and Corbis as well as being published in world-wide periodicals such as National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Islands, Smithsonian, American Photo, Natural History, Time, Forbes,, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
She is a recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for her photographs of child labor in Asia and a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award.
Her writing and photographs have been published in her books, “Faces of Hope, Children of a Changing World”, “The Dalai Lama; A Simple Monk,” and “The Spirit of Tibet, Portrait of a Culture in Exile,” as well as through the Discovery Channel Photo Journeys series.
On January 2, 2000 Alison's life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident on a remote jungle road in Laos. Alison's recent memoir, “Learning to Breathe; One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival,” chronicles this inspirational story of survival and years of rehabilitation, and her ongoing determination to recover and continue traveling the world as an intrepid photojournalist.
Jonathan Newton is entering his 24th season as a professional photographer. He joined the staff of The Washington Post in the summer of 2000. 
He started out at The Nashville Banner in 1986 fresh out of Western Kentucky University. After a little more than a year at the Banner he moved to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he spent 10 years shooting assignments that included the Atlanta Braves. He joined the St. Petersburg Times in 1998 when the town landed an expansion Major League baseball team.
A Louisville native and the youngest of eight children, Newton used $300 he saved from a busboy job to buy his first professional camera equipment from a downtown Louisville pawnshop. He got his first taste of newspapers, at Jefferson Community College, shooting pictures for the weekly student publication.
Newton has covered almost every major sporting event in the world: the Olympics in 1996 and 2008, the Kirkwall Ba in Scotland, in 2007; four World Series, six National League Championships, six NCAA Final Fours, the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, several heavyweight title bouts in Las Vegas, college football championships; the super bowl; and countless high school sporting events.
Newton's awards include the Morris Berman NPPA Citation; White House News Photographers Association awards, Baseball Hall of Fame photo contest, first place in the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors sports competition; and three-time Georgia Photographer of the Year
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