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Posted September 2005

Santa Fe Center slates fine art seminars

Santa Fe Center for Photography has scheduled two seminars for New York City next month. Fine Art Photography & The Marketplace will be led by Mary Virginia Swanson on October 8, 2005. (The date coincides with with the second annual Photo New York exposition.) Location is the School of Visual Arts, 209 E 23rd, 3rd Floor. In this full-day seminar for photographers, Mary Virginia Swanson provides insights into the most effective avenues for introducing your work to professionals in the fine art arena. Registration is encouraged for anyone interested in presenting their work to this market. Cost is $160 if you register before September 23, or $195 thereafter.

Presenting Your Work to the Fine Art Market, also led by Mary Virginia Swanson, will be held on October 18 & 19, 2005. (This one is right before PhotoPlus Expo.) Location is the Pratt Institute, 144 W 14th Street. The two-day workshop provides insights into the most effective avenues for introducing your work to gallery and museum professionals. This workshop is limited to 20 partcipants for the highest quality experience. Cost is $435 until September 23; $485 thereafter.

To register for either workshop, call 505-984-8353.

Adobe Photographers Directory wins award

The Adobe Photographers Directory — or rather, the Euro RSCG 4D design team that designed the APD web site — has won a WebAward from the Web Marketing Association. This award is given to organizations and individuals involved in the process of developing web sites for organizations, companies and the government. To be eligible in a given year, a site must have been in general use for at least part of that calendar year.

IAPP sets October powwow

The International Association of Panoramic Photographers will hold its annual convention in Springfield MA on Oct 8-11, 2005. For information, visit www.panoramicassociation.org.

Bid for a portrait session for a worthy cause

Several famous photographers hope to benefit the non-profit Santa Fe Center for Photography by contributing a portrait session to an E-Bay auction. The donors are Arnold Newman, Keith Carter, Joyce Tenneson, Andrew Eccles, Paul Elledge, Greg Gorman, Gregory Heisler, Matthew Jordan Smith, Arthur Meyerson, Frank Ockenfels 3, Rosanne Olson and Alec Soth.

Bidding opens October 23, 2005 and closes November 1 on eBay Giving Works, a program dedicated to support non-profit organizations. Winning bidders may book their session for themselves or gift it to another.

Food photography workshop slated

Lou Manna will hold two more of his well-received workshops on Digital Food Photography this fall. One session will be on October 1; the other will be on November 12. The sessions will run from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, and will be held at Lou’s studio, 126 Fifth Avenue (at 18th Street), Suite 10B. More info is at www.DigitalFoodPhotos.com. The workshop costs $425 (but you get to eat the products); to register, call 212-727-2505.

IPNStock welcomes new members and staff

Among the studios joining IPNStock recently are CGI Backgrounds, ESTO (an architectural agency), Mountain Light Photography (the archive of Galen Rowell), Shoot Studio and Heather Elder Represents, whose roster includes Andy Anderson, Noel Barnhurst, David Bowman, Thomas Broening, Ann Elliott Cutting, Hunter Freeman, and David Martinez. Individual photographers who have joined include Sarah Alexander, Jay Maisel, Jerry and Marcy Monkman, Chuck Pefley, Mark Tomalty and Lee Anne White.

The agency also announced some new staff members. Eric Miller, hailing from Digital Vision, and Margot Bennett, who came from Getty Images after many years of experience at FPG International, have been hired as Customer Service Representatives. Patricia Bayley, former photo editor for Digital Vision, has been hired as IPN’s new Photo Editor.

Explore the connection of creative vision and wealth

ASMPNY members and others are invited to a free, three-hour presentation on the relationship between your creative vision and your financial wealth. Speakers are Ian Summers, an advertising and publishing creative director turned creative coach, and Aaron Schindler, a photographer’s agent turned financial representative. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 from 9 AM til noon at the offices of Wealth Advisory Group LLC, 888 Seventh Avenue (entrance on 57th Street between Broadway and 7th Ave), New York City. Seating is limited; RSVP before Friday, September 23 by calling 212-261-1897.

Seattle graphic artists to host book publishing topic

Graphic Artists Guild/SPGA-Seattle will host “From Elvis to Garden Gnomes”, a luncheon discussion of the book producing business by Jim Becker, the president and cofounder of becker&mayer. His firm releases more than 75 books a year for such major publishing houses as Chronicle Books, Random House, Simon & Schuster and Scholastic Book Clubs. Becker will speak about his Bellevue-based company, the evolution of a project, how they work with freelancers, and trends in the publishing industry.

The event will take place on Wednesday, September 28 from noon til 2 PM at Columbia Tower Club, Seattle. Travel directions and parking advice are posted at the SPGA web site.

Y-Visionary Publishing shuts down

Y-Visionary Publishing, the publisher of Private Pilot and several other magazines, has closed its doors. Most of its publications were sold to Apprise Media, but Private Pilot was simply shut down — apparently, rather abruptly. There was not even time for the staff to return the slides to photographers who had stories in production for upcoming issues. Apprise tells us that, subsequently, the former editor was allowed back into the building to pack up and mail the images, manuscripts and other property back to their owners.

Santa Fe Center sets contest deadline

The Santa Fe Center for Photography has announced a deadline of December 1, 2005 for Review Santa Fe, the Project Competition, and the Singular Image Awards.

The twelfth annual Project Competition honors committed photographers working on long-term documentary projects and fine-art series. Three jurors reach a consensus on the First Prize ($5,000) and three finalists. Each individual juror also selects a project to receive one of the three Juror’s Choice awards. This year’s jurors are: Georgio Baravalle, de.MO Books and Design; Yossi Milo, Yossi Milo Gallery, NY; and Anne Wilkes Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The Singular Image (formerly Assignment Earth) contest recognizes outstanding individual photographs in color and black and white. Its jurors are Sarah Hasted Mann, Hasted HuntGallery, for color photos, and Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Nueva Luz magazine, for monochrome images.

New Kind of Historical Evidence

The Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA) is running an exhibit called A New Kind of Historical Evidence through Oct 30. It features 70 pictures from the Carpenter Centre Collection, which was established at Harvard University in the mid-1960s to gather significant historical photographs and to serve as a resource for teaching the history and aesthetic practice of photography. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 10-5, Sunday 1-5; closed on holidays. Admission is $6.50; $5 for seniors; $5 for students; and free for those under 18 years of age. Admission is free to everyone Saturday mornings, 10 a.m. - noon.

Adobe, Nikon hint at rapprochement on RAW

The controversy over proprietary RAW files has apparently touched some nerves in the vendor community. One result is that Adobe has added this statement to the Photoshop CS2 information on its website:

Adobe and Nikon are both enthusiastic about the continued innovation of digital imaging technology. Both companies recognize that ongoing advancement in current RAW formats is bringing a new level of control, precision, and quality to the photography community, and we both are excited about helping to foster that innovation.

Adobe is committed to working with Nikon to ensure that our common customers have an excellent experience when using Nikon cameras with Adobe software, and the company is disappointed that there has been confusion about this in the market….

…For the future, Nikon intends to cooperate with Adobe and other industry members in order to pursue its objective of providing images with better quality, convenience, and usefulness to end users.

It’s a bit vague — Adobe is quite phobic about disclosing future product plans — but nonetheless it is a significant statement of direction.

Kevro named to Public Art Advisory Board

Kevin Rouse, the owner of KEVRO artist-photographer-designer owned Gallery, reports two events. First, the gallery is celebrating its five-year anniversary in the Pineapple Grove section of Delray Beach, FL. And second, Kevin has been appointed to the new Public Art Advisory Board for the City of Delray Beach. 

ASMP members welcome at NAB show in NYC

The NAB Post+Production Show is a convention for the TV, video and graphics industries, including a 80,000-square-foot expo and a training conference. This year’s expo exhibitors include some of the biggest names in the industry: Avid, Adobe, Panasonic, B&H, Tekserve and many more. The conference will feature advanced training in the latest production and post-production techniques as well as three days of sessions dedicated to digital photography.

The show will be held at the Javits Center in Manhattan from November 15th through the 17th. By special arrangement, ASMP members can have free access to the show floor, keynote presentations, a cocktail reception on Tuesday and a special screening of The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.  To register, use this link: http://registration.expoexchange.com/ShowNAB053/default.aspx?RType=SHOWONLY&SCode=ED22.

Stepping Stone to feature diversity

Stepping Stone Gallery has extended the deadline for submissions to its upcoming exhibit titled Diversity, Next Door and Abroad. It will be the first in a series exploring the subject of cultural diversity in our society and societies around the globe.  The gallery is looking for both documentary and creative images that “reflect our new connected world as a melting pot of cultures and how the vast array of ethnic backgrounds and religions co-exist and influence one another in our ever changing political climate, in the news, media and the internet, popular culture; and in work places, neighborhoods and homes all around the world.”

Deadline for submissions is September 25. The hanging fee for each accepted image is $40; size cannot exceed 20x28 inches, including mat and frame. The exhibition will run from October 14 through November 20, 2005. Questions? Contact Katherine Criss at 516-877-1277 or kcriss1@juno.com.