The Final Clip Results will be announced at the meeting.
2009 POY
Meeting Postponed!
2010 NCPPA
Annual Meeting and Pictures of the Year Randolph Community College - Asheboro North Carolina
(New Date) February 26-27th, 2010
This Event is Free to the Public
NCPPA Schedule Friday, Feb 26th 4 p.m. -10 p.m.- Professional and Student Portfolio Judging. (Not open to public)
John Simmons from the Charlotte Observer will be running the POY at the meeting.
Thanks John!
Saturday, Feb 27th 9a.m.-Complete. - Multimedia and Individual Categories Judging: 1st rounds open to public
7-10 p.m. Social Gathering and Print Auction
Hotel Reservations Fairfield Inn & Suites Asheboro Ask for the NCPPA Group Rate of $70 920 Executive Way
Asheboro, North Carolina 27203 USA
Phone: 1-336-626-9197
Sam Abell's thirty-year career has been dedicated to achieving artistic expression through documentary photography. He has pursued his goals primarily through his lengthy, in-depth coverages for National Geographic magazine and its Book Division. At the same time, he has maintained a career as an artist, teacher, and author.
The raw material of Abell's photography comes from close contact with the world, especially austere, remote regions. To affirm and, in fact, emphasize his commitment to what actually exists, he has chosen to work in color and in a strict documentary tradition.
He has applied himself, particularly, to the photography of cultural landscape: He explores ways in which places can be purely recorded, with images simultaneously shaped by the photographer's imagination.
In addition, he has maintained a personal black-and-white photographic diary that documents the life behind the artistic process. In 1990 Mr. Abell's work was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York City. A companion book, Stay This Moment, was published at that time.
In addition to his photography Mr. Abell is a member of the board of the director of the Santa Fe Center For Photography, the George Eastman House, and the University of Virginia Art Museum. In 2002 he collaborated with Leah Bendavid-Val on a retrospective of his life and work titled Sam Abell:The Photographic Life., published by Rizzoli. He is also the author of the book Seeing Gardens, published in 2001.
Currently Mr. Abell is photographing the Amazon headwaters for a book project. An extensive online interview with Mr. Abell and gallery of his images can be found on the Digital Journalist website (Digital Journalist+Sam Abell). Mr. Abell is represented by the Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC.
Meet the Judges
Ross Taylor is a staff photographer for The Virginian-Pilot, and is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
Taylor was named the 2007 Region 1 (New England) Photographer of the Year and is a two-time Photographer of the Year (NC) whose work has appeared on the cover of the National Press Photographers Best of Photojournalism magazine. He has won numerous international, national and regional awards as well as one of the Associated Press Photos of the Century awards.
Along the way, he has rambled across America, photographed in a Central American jail and received the Heimlich maneuver in a Tennessee Taco Bell.
Throughout his travels and work, Taylor has called a variety of places home - a walk-in closet, a storage space under a staircase, three attics, a couch in Central Appalachia and the back of a Nissan truck.
Taylor has hugged the Taj Mahal, kissed a 70-year-old woman on Bourbon Street, and swallowed fire at a Coney Island Side Show class.
He has been attacked by two angry mobs, several monkeys and one terrible virus in India.
Taylor skinny dipped in more than 20 states and was once stung by a jellyfish in the process. Taylor also accidently maced himself once he's not sure which was more painful.
In between shooting and thinking about photography, he reminisces about the glory days of foosball in Chapel Hill and a childhood filled with kickball, school pizza and chocolate milk.
NCPPA VP Wins $1,100 Grant
ASHEVILLE The Asheville Area Arts Council announced the recipients of the 2009-10 Grassroots Arts Program Grants and Regional Artist Project Grants totaling more than $42,000 this week.
But for Regional Artist Project Grant recipient and Citizen-Times photographer Erin Brethauer, it's an award that will last her all four seasons."
Brethauer received $1,100 to purchase photography equipment for a series of portraits she is doing of Western North Carolina farmers.
These farmers will be photographed in the same outdoor location of their farm during each of the seasons, she said.
“(The grant) just lets me do it right away,” Brethauer said. “It's really helpful to write a proposal and have a clear sense of what I need.” the story
NPPA will use funds it received from its membership in the Authors Coalition of America to increase its advocacy work, provide tuition grants to educational workshops, and to improve the public information aspects of its Web site. NPPA will also donate a portion of their ACA funds to the PLUS Coalition and the National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF), two organizations that serve professional photographers.
The Magnum Photos archive collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original prints of photographs taken by Magnum photographers over the last 50 years, will be preserved, digitized, catalogued, and made accessible to the public now that it's been purchased by computer mogul Michael S. Dell's investment firm and trucked to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin.
The National Press Photographers Foundation Inc. will award seven $2,000 scholarships in 2010 including the new Jimi Lott Scholarship, NPPF treasurer Frank Folwell announced. NPPF's new Web site has a downloadable PDF application form, and the deadline for entry is March 1, 2010.
The fifth in a series of free Webinars for NPPA members sponsored by PhotoShelter in partnership with NPPA is coming up on February 16, 2010, and members can register online now for the event.
This is it. Today's the last day to enter NPPA's 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition. The deadline for entry is tonight, 12:00 midnight in your time zone, Friday January 29. There is no entry fee and the contest is open to all.
While media companies are hoping Apple's new iPad will finally provide for a way for them to charge for news, magazines, and books, photographers are looking at the device – which has a camera and card reading connector kit – and wondering if something bigger than their iPhone but smaller than a MacBook will find its way into their workflow.
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