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“While covering a fast food workers strike at the National Air and Space Museum last week, photographer Kristoffer Tripplaar was forcefully brought down by no less than three security guards when he accidentally bumped into one of them in an attempt to protect his equipment.”
“Getty’s decision to let anyone with a website or social media presence freely embed photographs for non-commercial use was bound to rub photographers the wrong way. Sure enough, trade groups representing people who try to make a living snapping shutters say they are at work on an alternative way to compensate photographers as their images spread around the Internet because, in their view, Getty sure isn’t going to do it.”
“A police officer forcibly escorted Baltimore Sun photo editor Chris Assaf away from the scene of a police-involved shooting on Feb. 21. He had been taking pictures from outside the police lines, but an officer told him he had to move back further. Assaf protested, stating he was within his First Amendment rights to be where he was standing. Another officer then forced him to move.”
PPAGLA member Anacleto Rapping is hosting a photo walkabout and South Pacific workshop. More details can be found at The Perfect Exposure Gallery website.
March 8, 2014 with Wendy Sue Lamm
March 22, 2014 with Anacleto Rapping
Whatever your skill level, join Armando Arorizo, of the Perfect Exposure Gallery, and world renowned photographer Wendy Sue Lamm on a photo walkabout in L.A. on Saturday, March 8th 2014.
A second Walkabout will take place on March 22nd with former L.A. Times staff photographer Anacleto Rapping.
The walk courses about two miles, and each session lasts about four hours. Our route highlights busy downtown locations and some of the city's familiar landmarks, including Pershing Square, Broadway, City Hall, the Disney Concert Hall and the Second Street Tunnel.
An evening session is offered, allowing us to catch the street life and light that unfolds in the urban core throughout the evening. The Seminar is from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Date: Saturday 8, March 2014
Hours: 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Price: 175.00 per person. ( If you register before Saturday 1, March 2014, the fee is 150.00.)
If you interested in coming along, please contact Armando Arorizo at the Perfect Exposure Gallery
Armando@theperfectexposuregallery.com
+1.213.381.1137
SOUTH PACIFIC PHOTO WORKSHOP, MAY 25TH TO JUNE 1ST
The South Pacific Photo Workshops are all about making you a better photographer. We focus on developing your eye and storytelling skills as you immerse yourself in a weeklong adventure in the Philippines. We teach creative thinking and artistry, and guarantee that you will improve your imagery while having a good time.
The workshops will include scholarship students from the local community, and proceeds will be donated to visual arts programs at Foundation University, founded in 1949 to empower the people of Dumaguete.
Are you interested in joining us? We are now asking you to fill out a Reservation Request RIGHT HERE as we need to know as soon as possible how many spaces we have for this trip. We have a limit of 15 persons that we can take with us, and we need to know who is serious about coming along.
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION
OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
Annual Awards Dinner
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
Glendale Moose Lodge
357 West Arden Avenue
Glendale
Parking is available across the street
from the Lodge.
5:30 p.m. Cocktails
7 p.m. Dinner & Awards Show
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
JOHN MARSHALL,
FORMER KNBC-TV REPORTER
We are happy to announce our two lifetime achievement recipients: Glenn Waggner and George Robert Smith.
We hope to see you all there. If you cannot attend PLEASE SUPPORT PPAGLA by purchasing raffle tickets.
$44 per person
The dinner invitations have been mailed out and you should be receiving very soon.
RSVP by March 20.
For questions, please contact:
David Fernandez, visualtec@att.net
Nikon Professional Services Hosts: The Fourth Annual Academy Awards Aftercare
Read MoreCanon Hollywood Technology and Support Center
Entertainment Journalist Dinner
Thursday February 27th 6:00-8:00
6060 Sunset BLVD Hollywood 90028
CPS and Credentialed Photographers & Videographers invited
Food and great conversations with industry friends
Please RSVP to Amy
akawadler@cusa.canon.com
KNBC offers a behind the scenes look of their studios as they move out after 52 years.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2014/02/knbc_moves_out_of_burbank.php
The ethical commandments on the digital manipulation of photographs in journalism are simple and direct: you do not add or subtract any element of an image in post processing. Ever. If a photo didn’t turn out exactly how you had imagined, there is no laptop digital do-over.
Read MoreEnter here - http://www.fipcom.net/en.home
Deadline is Jan. 31, 2014.
“The Emirate of Fujairah, in partnership with National Geographic France and Agence France-Press, is launching the Fujairah International Photo Competition. As the editor-in-chief of the magazine in France, I think this is an exciting opportunity because now, more than ever, we need photographers to capture live news on the world stage.
The contest is open to all professional photographers and the overall winner will receive a trophy and a cash prize of 10,000€. Participants will be able to compete in five categories: news, environment, economy, sport, and reportage. Each category winner (one per category) will receive a Nikon D800 digital SLR camera. Their work will also be displayed in two month-long exhibitions, one in the heart of Paris, and the second in the Emirate of Fujairah. More information about the contest is already available on the official website, fipcom.net. Participants can submit their photos—taken in 2013—through the website beginning on January 1, 2014 until the 31st.
The five categories of the competition include:
News. Pictures covering major news topics and their aftermaths in areas such as politics, economics, conflict, social tension, relief and reconstruction work, and crime.
Environment. Pictures documenting how social, environmental, and health issues are affecting society and people’s lives today.
Sport. Pictures capturing defining moments during major sporting events or top-level contests.
Economy. Pictures documenting how the economy or economical issues are affecting people’s lives and society today.
Reportage. A series of five pictures about a defined subject. Pictures must be placed in a precise order to make sense.
The winning photo will be displayed in an exhibit at Les Docks-Cité de la Mode et du Design in Paris.
Located in Paris on the banks of the river Seine, Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design will host the award ceremony in early March and display an exhibition of the winner’s work from March 14th to April 14th. With its bold, undulating architecture, and its vocation as a center focusing on culture, creativity and design, the Docks have become one of Paris’ most remarkable landmarks.
Click here for news and updates about the competition, including how to enter. Good luck!”
The Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles is proud to announce the election of new president Paul Buck and vice president Kirk McKoy to serve for the 2014-2016 term.
Paul Buck is the Los Angeles bureau chief at European Pressphoto Agency. Kirk McKoy has been a board member and is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times.
It is my pleasure, as president for the past two years, to hand over the reigns to Paul Buck. He has been a vice president during my term and is ready to take on the challenge of the presidency. Paul understands the work that goes behind it and the needs of PPAGLA.
Kirk McKoy has proven to have a lot of energy in our student seminars. He will have great ideas for the association for these next two years.
Let's all congratulate Paul Buck as our president and Kirk McKoy as our new vice president. Jim Ober will continue to be treasurer and Diandra Jay will also stay as our secretary. We have a very strong and dedicated board!
David Fernandez
Chairman of the Board
PPAGLA is proud to have our 2014 awards dinner at the Glendale Moose Lodge on Saturday, March 29th. It will be a great time for all of us to come together and cheer on the many winners from the video and still categories. There will be many prizes for the winners and also for those attending from the raffle tickets.
Read MoreAn ambitious bet on print journalism in Southern California was dealt a blow this week when the owner of the Orange County Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise laid off dozens of employees at the two papers.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-register-layoffs-20140117,0,6469742.story#ixzz2qdPymRnB
Journalists in California must now receive advanced notice if their records are being subpoenaed either directly from them or through a subpoena issued to a third party. California’s new law—an amendment to California Civil Procedure Section 1986.1—was the California Legislature’s unified response to what was seen, by many, to be an abuse of power by federal investigators. The law enhances existing notice requirements for California’s journalists who are protected by the state’s shield law.
Read MoreWASHINGTON - Nicholas Simmons disappeared from his parents' house in a small upstate New York town on New Year's Day, leaving behind his wallet, cellphone and everything else.
Four days later, an Associated Press photographer, looking for a way to illustrate unusually cold weather, snapped his picture as he warmed himself on a steam grate a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol.
Paul and Michelle Simmons saw the AP photograph in USA Today Sunday morning after it was brought to their attention through a Facebook page set up to help find their 20-year-old son, according to police and family friends.
The photo, taken Saturday by AP photographer Jacquelyn Martin, showed Simmons with his unshaven face pressed against a grate outside the Federal Trade Commission. He wore a ski jacket and a hood over his head. A thick gray blanket covered his lower body.
Martin was assigned to the White House that weekend, but with President Barack Obama still on vacation in Hawaii, she spent the day looking for shots that would illustrate the cold weather. That is how she found Nick Simmons, in an area where homeless people often gather when it is frigid outside. She found a cluster of men huddled around the grate, introduced herself and started taking pictures.
Then she noticed one person in particular, huddled under a blanket.
"It struck me how young he was," Martin said. "I again introduced myself and shook his hand. He said his name was Nick."
Martin finished shooting, sent the pictures to the wire and then called it a day. The next day, she received a message via Twitter from USA Today.
The newspaper had run the photo of Nick and was contacting Martin to tell her that Nick's family had recognized him and was trying to locate him. Michelle Simmons was certain that the young man in the photograph was her son, missing for four days.
Police picked Simmons up Sunday afternoon and took him to a hospital, said police Capt. Patrick Phelan. Simmons' father, Paul, and older brother Paul Jr. arrived in Washington Sunday night and were reunited with Simmons at the hospital, said longtime family friends Peter and Cindy Gugino.
Martin, the AP photographer, said the episode serves as a reminder to journalists that every person they encounter has a story to tell.
"It's really gratifying to see that a photograph can make a tangible difference in someone's life. That's a really amazing thing to have happened," she said. "I'm happy and touched that the photograph could help reunite this family."
Police said authorities notified local media and tried to investigate the case, but there were no leads until the publication of the photo.
"It was pure dumb luck how all this happened," said Sgt. David Mancuso, the lead investigator. "It's truly a miracle."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/truly-a-miracle-family-spots-missing-man-in-news-photo/
PPAGLA members join me in congratulating our new board members for the next two years: Robyn Beck, Gerard Burkhart, Ringo Chiu, Khai Le, John McCoy, David Seger and Jason Wittman (alternate). They will be joining our current board members Paul Buck, Jim Caccavo, Louis Gabriele, Diandra Jay, Kirk McKoy, Nancy Newman and Jim Ober.
Read MoreDURHAM, NC (December 31, 2013) – In September 2010 the National Press Photographers Association joined in an important federal lawsuit in a Constitutional challenge of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's laptop search policy at the border.
Abidor v. Napolitano is a federal lawsuit that is a constitutional challenge to DHS policies that authorize the suspicionless search, copying, and distribution of the contents of Americans' laptop computers, cell phones, cameras and other electronic devices at the international border.
On Friday U.S. District Judge Edward Korman dismissed the suit after it sat in his court for nearly two years. By doing so Korman affirms that he believes the government should be able to search and copy people’s laptops, cell phones, and other devices at border checkpoints without reasonable suspicion.
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They're brand new images of a Northwest icon that disappeared more than 33 years ago - the conical summit of Mount St. Helens.
Reid Blackburn took the photographs in April 1980 during a flight over the simmering volcano.
When he got back to The Columbian studio, Blackburn set that roll of film aside. It was never developed.
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A new exhibit, “News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency,” has opened at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda.
http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-entertainment/20131226/photo-exhibit-on-the-presidency-opens-at-nixon-library
It’s time for the annual PPAGLA Board of Directors election. Only Professional members are eligible to vote. Associate Members and Student Members cannot cast ballots.
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