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Cecilia de Querol

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Mary Giancoli
Stephanie Levine

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Wanda Pion

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Laura Wyss


NEW YORK CHAPTER 

Members of ASPP's New York Chapter work in all the image related fields in the New York Tri-State Area's vibrant publishing, advertising, media, visual arts and design industries.  Throughout the year the Chapter holds events where members meet, network, learn, share and discuss the issues that are important to us all. 

 Join us - bring your best - and help enrich our unique community.
 
 
UPCOMING EVENT:
 
 
 


© Katina Houvouras

     

Time for our  annual Summer Bash hosted at the Bridgeman Art Library and Garden!!

July 15, 2009 -- 6:30 pm
65 East 93rd Street, New York, NY


Free to current ASPP members or if you join/ rejoin at the door. Guests $15. Great opportunities to rejoin, bring friends, come early, stay late, let your hair down and get loose!!

Please RSVP by 7/13

Thanks to our sponsors: Barnes & Noble, PhotoLibrary, age fotostock, Jerry Tavin & Janou Pakter, Grant Heilman, The ImageWorks, and LTU Technologies.


 
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On June 15 New York based documentary photographer Alison Wright spoke about her career built on capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs. Influenced by her years of living in Asia, her powerful work documents the traditions and changes of people and cultures throughout the remotest regions of the world.

Wright’s  life was nearly cut short on January 2, 2000  by 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.

Wright's photography is represented by National Geographic and published in other worldwide periodicals such as National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Islands, Smithsonian, American Photo, and Natural History. A recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography, Alison is also a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Award 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 Journey Series

Monday, June 15 at 6:30 pm
Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
281 Park Avenue South at 22nd Street
New York City
$10 members
$20 non-members
$5 students


Networking after the presentation, light refreshments



 

     
 

 
What's New in Workflow?
 

New software and hardware upgrades keep changing the digital toolbox, so spend an evening networking with your colleagues and learn about new workflow techniques:

Michael Lorenzini showed how NYC Dept of Records approached the question: 2 million images to digitize, where do you start? How do you prioritize equipment selection, metadata processing and get images to a visual database?

Jennifer Lim told how Bill Smith Studio Group wrangles image files from a myriad of suppliers and keeps projects organized with a custom Filemaker application

Antonio M. Rosario - photographer and tech wizard  showed how Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture each contribute to his stock and assignment work

Wednesday April 29
6:30 - 9:30pm
Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
281 Park Ave South at 22nd Street (steps from the 23rd Street East Side subway station)

New York City

Light refreshments and networking after the presentation
Members $10/non-members $20/students $5
Free to New Members who join ASPP at the event

Thanks to PhotoShelter for supporting this event.

      

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Bob Sacha - The Anatomy of a Prize Winning Multimedia Production - from the First Idea to the Finished Piece
 

For more than 25 years Bob Sacha was a prize winning photojournalist constantly traveling the world on assignment for National Geographic, Life and other magazines. Then in January 2008, he joined the award winning multimedia production studio MediaStorm. His first assignment started with an email from Brian Storm: " I have a big project for you to start with working with Reuters to create a five year anniversary project on Iraq. I think it's going to be a really important project that will get quite a bit of attention when it comes out....."

A little more than 2 months later, Reuters: Bearing Witness: 5 years of the Iraq War seen through the eyes of Reuters was launched. 

Hear the story of how that email started the journey that ended in the multiple award winning website - http://iraq.reuters.com/


MARCH 10, 2009
6:30 - 9:00 pm
 

Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
281 Park Avenue South, NYC
(at 22nd St, steps from the 23rd St East Side subway station)

Admission:  ASPP members $10, non-members $15, students $5



Light food and beverages
after the presentation
 

      



YouTube trailer

 

 

 
 
 

ASPP/NY Holiday Party & Jane Kinne Picture Professional of the Year Award


ASPP New York Chapter members and their guests celebrated the holidays and the presentation of the 2008 Jane Kinne Picture Professional of the Year Award to Jerry Tavin at Butai Restaurant on December 8th.

  All Photographs © Robert Herman
 
  

 


 

 

Since photography was invented almost 200 years ago, fine art photography and commercial photography have followed intertwining paths. The relationship has always been complex, at times symbiotic and nurturing, at times divisive and rivalrous.

Our panel talked about where we are and how we got here: Agents and galleries are entering each other's markets and creating new ones - our panelists discussed what pitfalls are best avoided, whether commercial sales are good or bad for galleries and fine art photographers, and whether licensing changes how galleries organize shows and pick images for the walls--or the catalog... and if art collectors care.



STEPHANIE HEIMANN-MARKHAM
is a photo editor, curator, and consultant. She is a founding member and director of Fovea Exhibitions in Beacon, New York, a non-for-profit specializing in education through photojournalism and currently the acting Photo Editor for Fortune Small Business Magazine, published by Time Inc in New York City. She spent 8 years living in Hong Kong, Paris, and Moscow (where she worked as a photojournalist and photo editor covering post-Soviet culture and the first war in Chechnya).

ANTONY NAGELMANN has traveled to over 60 countries producing his work. His clients include Delta Airlines, Microsoft, Nokia, Nissan/Infiniti, American Express, etc. His personal work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in three continents including the National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal Photographic Society, Michael Hoppen Gallery, 426 and Aspen. He is the recipient of several international awards.

PETER ROHOWSKY holds a graduate degree in the history of art from Princeton University. He was the Head of the Painting Department of Phillips Auctioneers and also a private art dealer and appraiser. Since 1984 he has been in the stock photo business, first in a variety of roles at The Bettmann Archive and Corbis, then Director of Christie's Images, Manager of Photo Research at Archive Photos and Getty and since 2005, Executive Manager, The Art Archive of The Picture Desk.

MICHAEL SHULMAN is the Director of Publishing and Multimedia for Magnum Photos since 2002, and has worked in the photo industry since 1993, beginning with Archive Photos, then Sygma, Liaison and Getty. He lives in Manhattan and is a New York native.

This event was on Tuesday, October 14, 2008,  6:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avene South, NYC
(at 22nd Street, steps from the 23rd Street East Side subway station)

Admission:  ASPP Members $10.00, Guests $15.00

Light food and beverages were served after the presentation.

 


May 7:  PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS BOOK COVER DESIGN

ASPP NY Chapter presented an evening with prominent book designers Ann Twomey and Henry Sene Yee discussing the role photography plays in their work.

Anne Twomey is a VP/Creative Director of Cover Art for the newly formed Hachette Book Group USA, formerly Time Warner Book Group, where she oversees the cover designs of over 300 books a year. Anne has designed covers for many bestselling and celebrity authors, has worked with some of the most talented photographers, illustrators and designers, and has won numerous awards from the New York Book Show, The Society of Illustrators, The Art Directors Club, Print, and Creativity. She has also juried shows for The New York Book Show, The Art Directors Club, The Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts Magazine.

Henry Sene Yee is the Creative Director of Picador, a book publisher in New York City. He has won numerous awards including AIGA's 50 Books / 50 Covers, The New York Art Directors' Club, The Type Directors' Club, The New York Book Show, The Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual, Communication Arts, Graphic Design USA, and Graphis magazine. He can always be seen with a camera in one hand and a coffee in the other.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008,  6:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avene South, NYC
(at 22nd Street, steps from the 23rd Street East Side subway station)

Admission:  ASPP Members $10.00, Guests $15.00


Light food and beverages were served after the presentation.



        


 



March 6:  ASPP FILM SERIES - LOOKING FOR AN ICON a film by Hans Pool & Maaik Krijgsman

 


LOOKING FOR AN ICON examines the process by which photos become icons, revealing that once a photo is published, social forces are at work beyond the photographer's control. The film focuses on four World Press Photo winners, including Eddie Adams's 1968 photo of the public execution of a Viet Cong prisoner, an anonymous photographer's last image of Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup, Charlie Cole's 1989 photo of a lone student confronting tanks in Tiananmen Square, and David Turnley's 1991 photo of a grieving soldier during the first Gulf War.

The film details the story behind each of those world-famous images, featuring interviews with the photographers, and showing additional images from the contact sheets. LOOKING FOR AN ICON also features interviews with other photographers, photo editors, critics, educators, historians and members of the World Press Photo jury.

The commentary by these photojournalists and other professionals offer insights into the social process by which a photo becomes iconic, the visual motifs they illustrate, the public's voyeuristic fascination with horrific images, and how such images shape historical memory.

55 minutes
2007 release date
more information

March 6th at 7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:30 pm

WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM
57 Bethune Street or 155 Bank Street - enter through courtyard

      

 


ASPP New York Chapter Chapter invites members to our continuing Film Series.  On February 7th, we showed THE PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER, on January 8th we showed MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES; on December 4th we enjoyed BORN INTO BROTHELS; and on November 6th about thirty of us saw a beautiful print of Antonioni's BLOWUP



 

 

1/30/08: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN STILL AND MOVING IMAGES
Featuring Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur
Over the years, Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur have worked together on books, exhibitions and photography assignments which have taken them around the world. Their work together has also moved beyond the still image -- into video and other new interactive media.

Their discussions centered around new media and the opportunities it creates for telling stories visually, as well as the implications of our brave new media landscape for the photo industry.


Wednesday, January 30th, 2008,  6:00 pm - 8:45 pm


Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avene South, NYC
(at 22nd Street, steps from the 23rd Street East Side subway station)

Admission:  ASPP Members $10.00, Guests $15.00


Light food and beverages were served after the presentation.




 

 











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