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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING APRIL 24 at 6:30 pm at Dennis Brack Studio 318 Third Street NE
DC
The meeting will be featuring Chris Usher, who will give a presentation on his WHNPA project grant.
The 2008 exhibition opening at Edison Place Gallery
THE EYES OF HISTORY™ 2008 EXHIBITION
2008 White House News Photographers Association “Eyes of History” Exhibition
The Exhibition at the Edison Place Gallery will be open to the public at no charge from July 17th to August 20th. Hours are: Tuesday through Friday noon to 4:00 p.m. Saturday hours: August 9th and August 16th from noon to 4:00 pm.
Special note: At 2:00 pm on August 9th photojournalist Pete Souza will talk about and sign his book, THE
RISE OF BARACK OBAMA at the Edison Place Gallery, 702 Eighth Street NW Washington, DC
AUGUST 16
The WHNPA annual summer picnic is Saturday, August 16, 2008 at the Washington Canoe Club under Key Bridge. Ed Eaves’ Band is on to play for our picnic. (Download a printable poster (304 kb jpg, 120 dpi) and help spread the word!) For more info about the Rick Sickmen Band, download their promotional PDF or visit their web site.
Ed Eaves keeps the beat for the Rick Sickmen Band
August 8 - 24 The Olympics
While President George W. Bush was visiting with USA Olympic team members, Larry Downing, Gerald
Herbert, and Mandel Ngan were visiting with Michael Phelps. Mandel made this image of Larry and Michael and Michael's first gold medal of this Olympic Games.
George Bridges sent this image of Pat Benic UPI at the opening
ceremony of the Olympics.
ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 29 ....
Women by Women: A Juried Exhibition of WPOW members
EXHIBITION OPENING SEPT 25 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM
The women of the Women Photojournalists of Washington craft a visual
journey through the lives of women and girls around the world. From
the desperation of an emergency room in Haiti, to an ordered classroom
in China; from the bubble gum pink of a girls bathroom during a middle
school dance, to a whitewashed detention center on Mexico’s border–
moments of beauty, humor and darkness present themselves in their
rawest form.
Curated by Ken Geiger, National Geographic Senior Editor and MaryAnne
Golon, Time Magazine, Consulting Editor
Exhibition at the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
144 Constitution Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Metro Union Station
Next to Hart Senate Office Bldg
October 23-25, 2008 , Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City
Wednesday, November 12, 2008: Television contest committee meeting. Many volunteers are needed. Please contact Pege Gilgannon and consider volunteering your time. The meeting will take place at WJLA on WEDS, Nov. 12, 2008. Contact Pege Gilgannon for details.Pege’s phone is: 202-345-1937. Pege does NOT have email.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
The next General Membership meeting will be at The National Press Club, Lisagor Room. The meeting will feature new video product demos from Penn Camera, a presentation by our partner PNY Technologies, along with other surprises. Starts at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 15, 2008- PROJECT GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINE
WHNPA Project Grant deadline. Imagine $5,000 to be spent on a project of your choosing!!!!
A reminder to all WHNPA members that as the 2008 Presidential election campaign comes to a close the deadline is fast approaching for the 2008 WHNPA Grant. Because of the election, the deadline was extended one month and applications are due by Saturday, November 15.
“Think in terms of multimedia and as wide of a distribution as possible,” WHNPA Educational Committee chairman Leighton Mark said. “Having high quality audio with the photos can make an amazing difference, it can make the project so much stronger.
And look beyond your newspaper, magazine or agency and think about a gallery display someplace, a multimedia Web offering - anything that gets your work to be seen by as many people as possible.”
Project proposals need to be mailed, Fed-Ex’ed to or dropped by the offices of the Associated Press, 1100 13th Street, Suite 700, Washington, D.C., 20006, Attention: Leighton Mark
Questions can be addressed to Lmark@ap.org.
“If you don’t see a quick response, send it again. I might have missed it the first time.”
FOTOWEEK DC is November 15-22, 2008. FOTOWEEK DC is a week long celebration
of photography. There is a contest which WHNPA members can enter to get a
chance of winning some of the $37,000 in prizes and equipment.
www.fotoweekdc.org
TIckets for the FOTOWEEK gala on November 22 at The National Geographic Society may be ordered at:
WHNPA members are invited to show work in our "lecture hall" at FotoWeek Central at 3338 M Street, NW. Check out what all is happening at FotoWeek Central by going to the website, www.fotoweekdc.org <http://www.fotoweekdc.org/> . We're scheduling half hour talks, providing projector & screen (we ask that speakers bring their own laptop). If anyone is interested, please contact irene@ireneowsley.com
ASMP DC will be presenting lectures at the Navy Memorial auditorium, Nov. 18 (Steve Uzzell) and Nov. 19 (David Burnett & Eugene Richards). We recommend you register, which is free, at http://www.asmpdc.org/p-calendar.php.
And don't forget the Discovery lunch time lectures -- there's a great series of photographers speaking there, too!
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 - EXHIBITION AND SILENT AUCTION
"Women by Women: A Juried Exhibition by WPOW members"
DATE/TIME: Thursday, November 20th - 6:30 to 8:30 pm
WHERE: Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
144 Constitution Ave, NE Washington DC 20002
(Next to Hart Senate Office Bldg / Metro: Union Station)
DESCRIPTION: The Women Photojournalists of Washington craft a visual journey through the lives of women and girls around the world. From the desperation of an emergency room in Haiti, to an ordered classroom in China; from the bubble gum pink of a girls bathroom during a middle school dance, to a whitewashed detention center on Mexico's border–moments of beauty, humor and darkness present themselves in their rawest form.
COST: Free!! (Bring your checkbooks or cash if you plan to bid during the silent auction!)
Watch a 3:37 minute video produced
for WHNPA "The Eyes of History" 2005 gala, narrated
by host Joe Scarborough and hosted by washingtonpost.com.
The clip features an overview
of the Association's history,
along with archival footage of such memorable events as the
destruction of the Hindenberg, Harry Truman the morning after
he won surprise re-election, President Johnson lifting his
dog by the ears, the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan,
and other once-in-a-lifetime events covered by WHNPA still
and video photographers.
(Requires Real Player)
Do you need copies of previous contest books? The 2005 book plus DVD combo is still available for sale. Contest books plus DVDs are $25 + $5 shipping/ handling. Each may be purchased separately. Visit the online store. Please note: some books/DVDs from previous contests (2004,2003,2002...) remain available -- see store for details.
The Eyes of History contests from prior years remain online.
THE EYES OF HISTORY 2005 GALA PICTURES and VIDEOS REMAIN ONLINE
The preview above requires Flash, but the slideshow does not.
Videos from The Eyes of History 2005 Gala (May 21, 2005, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC) are also online, courtesy of washingtonpost.com. View President Bush's speech and his hilarious slide show, "Snapshot of a Presidency," produced by the White House (10:04 mins), and Chick Harrity's Lifetime achievement award presentation (14:24 mins). Linked video requires REAL PLAYER. Thanks to WHNPA members Ed Eaves, and John Poole, Jonathan Forsythe, and Ben de la Cruz of washingtonpost.com for helping us offer these videos online.
If you already have Real Player, view this year's gala videos. If you need to download REAL PLAYER, visit Real.com, click the Premium Video link, then click the FREE PLAYER button at the upper right hand corner.
