News and Announcements

PPE/Annual Member Meeting This Month!

The PhotoPlus Expo is coming to New York later this month so mark your calendars for October 28-30th, 2010 at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

• Stop by the ASMP booth #959 on the show floor.
• Free consultations for members will be available at the booth.
• Get a 10% discount on portfolio reviews through Palm Springs Photo Festival and Photo District news.
• Representatives from the US Copyright office will be there to answer your questions.
• ASMP’s Annual Member Meeting is Friday evening in Javits Center, Seminar Room. Doors open at 6 PM, Meeting starts at 6:30 PM. You’ll be able to mingle with old friends, meet new ones and hear from Richard Kelly, Board President; Gene Mopsik, Executive Director; and special Guest Speaker Tom Kennedy, who will discuss the future of media.
• And…the first 125 members to attend the Annual Meeting will receive FREE tickets for the PDN PhotoPlus Bash at the Intrepid that evening!

For more information about PhotoPlus, go here

Ready for Your Close-up?

Members who are in New York City during the PhotoPlus Expo are encouraged to stop by “The ASMP Studio” in Room #2D01 of the Javits Center to take part in a new ASMP promotion. We’ll take your portrait and ask you about ASMP membership so that you can be included in an upcoming ad campaign for ASMP and FAP. And we’ll even say “thank you” with small gift. Special thanks to Shawn Henry (photography) and Tom Kelly (audio) for donating their services. Don’t be shy — we’d like to have as many members as possible to show the strength, talent and professionalism of ASMP. Nothing is required ahead of time — just show up anytime between 10 AM - 4 PM, Friday Oct. 29th.

Fagan Leads ASMP Stock Imaging Initiatives

Shannon Fagan, former President of the Stock Artists Alliance, is now contributing his considerable expertise as an industry analyst, strategic photo business expert and photographer to ASMP. Fagan is moderating a new ASMP stock photo listserv, and he has also been named Chair of the newly established Stock Imaging License Committee. He will be a contributor to the Strictly Business blog as well as a speaker at the upcoming Strictly Business 3 Conferences.

ADBASE offers Members Free Portfolio in FoundFolios

ADBASE is now offering all ASMP General, Associate, Associate Plus and Emerging Associate members a Basic Portfolio on FoundFolios.com. It’s free — and your portfolio will appear in specialty and location searches and can include up to 9 images. ADBASE has been helping photographers reach new clients for years and now, with FoundFolios, is bringing buyers to you. With a value of $395, this new portfolio benefit makes your ASMP membership even more valuable. To activate your portfolio, call 1-877-500-0057.

ASMP Adds New Associate Plus Membership

ASMP has created a new category of membership to provide even more choices for photographers. The Associate Plus membership was developed for photographers who qualify for Associate membership and would like to have a listing and portfolio in the well-known Find A Photographer database. Current Associate members are welcome to upgrade to this new category. The Associate Plus membership will be available starting in January, 2011 with annual dues of $300. As always, a monthly payment plan is available.

New iPhone App

TCP & Co. offers photographers, a new iPhone application with instant quotes on a variety of specialized insurance packages. The app also gives them the ability to have required documents for purchasing insurance sent to their email. To download the app, go here.

In a case that could set precedent in online copyright legislation and impact photographers around the world, oral arguments have begun in a New York City courtroom in freelance photojournalist Daniel Morel’s claim against Agence France-Presse. Morel has accused AFP of using, without his permission, his photographs from the January 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti which Morel posted on TwitPic and Twitter shortly after the disaster struck. AFP asserts that Morel granted any third party a non-exclusive license to his images by posting them on Twitter without making any notation that he was limiting the license granted to Twitter or third parties. ASMP cautions that anyone posting or uploading images to a Web site should read and understand the terms and conditions of that site before accepting them.

The U.S. Department of Commerce, via the USPTO and NTIA, have issued an “Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity and Innovation in the Internet Economy.” Copyright is one of several areas of inquiry of the PTO-NTIA Internet Policy Task Force and a call for comments has been issued with a deadline of November 19th. ASMP encourages members to read the linked notice at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-24863.htm and email copyright-noi-2010@ntia.doc.gov with any comments they might have in response to the specific questions that appear towards the end of the notice. Please send a cc to info@asmp.org.

Following September’s Executive Board meeting, minutes are now available here.

As part of ASMP’s upcoming Strictly Business 3 conference series on January 21-23 in Los Angeles, February 25-27 in Philadelphia and April 1-3 in Chicago, we are putting together Saturday late-night Roundtables on the topic of New Business Models. Shannon Fagan, former President of the Stock Artists Alliance, industry analyst, strategic photo business expert and photographer, will moderate these discussions highlighting new business models for our industry. If you are willing to candidly share your work and business direction in a 15-minute presentation, you could be one of 4 photographers selected (per conference) to participate and have your SB3 tuition waived. Deadline to submit: November 15, 2010. To find out more, go here. Don’t miss out on 2011’s premier photography business conference series! Register now for SB3.

Richard Anderson, ASMP National Director and dpBestflow Project Director, is presenting an overview of the dpBestflow Project at The Nikon Australian Institute of Professional Photography on October 17-21.

Congratulations to photojournalist Paula Lerner, part of the team that won an Emmy Award in the New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming category for “Behind the Veil,” a groundbreaking in-depth multimedia feature about the lives of women in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Peter Turnley’s upcoming street photography workshop will be held Oct 24th - 30th in New York City, an amazing venue for street photography and a great place to create a photo essay/portfolio during a one week workshop. More information about this and other upcoming international workshops can be found here.

Connie Springer’s exhibit, POSITIVELY NINETY: Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians, opens Oct 1st in Cincinnati at the CENTENNIAL BARN and runs through December. Supported by a City of Cincinnati Individual Artist’s Grant, the lives of 28 people in their 90s are seen through photographs and narratives. For more info: www.centennialbarn.org.

ASMP Executive Director Eugene Mopsik and dpBestflow Senior Project Manager Peter Krogh spoke at the kick-off of the Eddie Adams Workshop on October 8th in New York City. Mopsik also attended the Young Photographers Alliance Awards Ceremony on October 12th where ASMP members Eric Meola and Doug Menuez presented scholarships on behalf of the Society. Mopsik, along with President Richard Kelly and Shannon Fagan, will represent ASMP at the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) International Annual Meeting October 15-17.

Website Design Discount

ASMP member Nicolai Froehlich offers a 15% discount on his website design and email newsletter design services to ASMP members and chapters. Just mention the ASMP discount code when contacting him here.

iPad News!

The revolutionary iPad and accessories are now available for preferred pricing on the online Apple Association Member Purchase Program (AMPP) store. For all the info, go to http://asmp.org/articles/member-benefits-apple.html

Special Offer on The DAM Book

Members who buy a copy of Peter Krogh’s The DAM Book, Digital Asset Management for Photographers (2009) through this link get a free, fully-licensed copy of Expression Media 2. The offer runs from October 1 to October 31.

Palm Springs Photo Festival Portfolio Reviews

The Palm Springs Photo Festival and Photo District News have teamed up to present portfolio reviews during the PhotoPlus Expo in NYC, October 28-30th. Show your work to book publishers, magazine photo editors, gallery and museum directors and curators, reps, industry consultants, advertising agency creatives and more. You’ll get a 10% discount here.

You Are Invited…

ASMP is a supporter of The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and you are invited to attend the ceremony, on October 20th, for the 31st Annual W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant for Humanistic Photography & The 16th Annual Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism. It’s free and will be held at the Asia Society Auditorium, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street in NYC. Seating is first come, first served with a ceremony at 7 pm and reception to follow. Come join the fun!

News of a Departure

Patrick Ross is stepping down from his position as the Copyright Alliance’s first Executive Director after more than three years of service. Ross, who was appointed by the Alliance’s Board of Directors prior to the organization’s public launch in May 2007, is returning to a full-time writing career.

Keep your comments coming at feedback@asmp.org — we want to hear from you!