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Dave Harp elected new ASMP president

ASMP’s new president Dave Harp, a lifelong Marylander who operates his commercial and editorial photography business from Baltimore, has a newspaper, magazine, and commercial photography background and a well-honed understanding of ASMP matters at chapter and national levels. Harp, a 1969 graduate of Ohio University with a degree in English literature, opened his own business in 1990. Prior to that he served as the staff photographer for the Hagerstown Morning Herald and was the photographer for The Baltimore Sun Magazine for nearly a decade, during which time, in 1984, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Before being elected to the national board in 1998, Harp had served as co-president of the Mid Atlantic chapter and was a co-chair of ASMP’s annual leadership conference in 1996.

Harp’s magazine work has taken him from the coast of Normandy for a story on the 40th anniversary of D-Day to Western Australia for coverage of the America’s Cup and to the tropical rain forests of Panama for magazine and corporate photography. His magazine credits include The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Audubon, Sierra, Natural History, Islands, Travel Holiday and Coastal Living magazine. He has produced multi-projector slide shows and videos for The Nature Conservancy, The Izaak Walton League of America, and The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and numerous corporate clients.

In 1991, he teamed with environmental writer Tom Horton for the children’s book, Swanfall, published by Walker and Company. His book, Water’s Way: Life Along the Chesapeake, a book of photographs with essays by Horton, was published by Elliott and Clark in 1992 and released as a paperback by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the spring of 2000. His latest book of photographs, also with essays by Tom Horton, is the result of journeys by canoe, kayak and skiff into the area around the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Chesapeake Bay and about the variety of life encountered there. The Great Marsh, An Intimate Journey Into a Chesapeake Wetland, will be published by Johns Hopkins Press in 2002. For samples of his work go to his Website.