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ASMP/APA Bar Night

October 12, 2009

When: Wednesday October 14, 2009 7pm to 9pm
Where:  Cleo’s, 2048 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL map
Cost: $0! Appetizers are on us and drinks are on you (and 20% off).

The local ASMP and APA chapters are joining together to start a monthly social gathering. The events are open to anyone who is interested, whether or not they’re a member of either organization. We will be providing appetizers and snacks. The goal of this new effort is encourage the photographic community to get together over a casual drink or two. Please spread the word and encourage friends and colleagues to join us.

Many thanks to Dodd Camera for sponsoring the food.

Contact ASMP Assistants and Associates Committee Chair Marc Altman or APA Midwest Chapter Director Megan with any questions or to RSVP.

Post by Marc Altman Photography

ASMP Chicago/Midwest Chapter Retreat Picnic (RSVP)

September 30, 2009

When: Sunday October 11, 2009
1:30pm

Where: Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort
250 West Schick Road
Bloomingdale IL 60108
(630) 529-0200

What: Chapter Retreat Picnic
Food Fun Family and Friends
(and maybe a little photography)

Why: To catch up with old friends,
to make new friends
to say good-bye to summer
to say hello to the fall

Come out and join us for some fun in the fall. For all of the times that you’ve asked “when do I ever just get to hang out with a group of photographers and just chew the fat (so to speak)” here you go. The Chapter Leadership is going to take some time to come together to do a little planning for the coming year. So in addition to being able to hang out with a few friends you can take this as an opportunity to share any ideas you might have for the Chapter. Is there an event you’d like to see? Is there some program that you think the Chapter needs to deliver? Well come to the retreat picnic and take one of the Chapter Board members aside and share your ideas with them. Even better volunteer to work on a committee or program for the coming year. In any event just come out and share the food and the fun.

Please RSVP by Firiday the 2nd at http://spongecell.com/event_page/view/891745 so we know how many to expect

Thanks
and See You There

Call for Volunteers: ASLA

August 18, 2009

Landscape architecture professionals from around the globe will gather September 18 – 21 in Chicago at the Lakeside Center at McCormick Place for the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo. The meeting will feature more than 125 education sessions, field sessions, and tours over four days.

http://www.asla.org/2009meeting/

ASMP will be hosting several events and we want you to get involved. Here’s a brief overview of what we will be participating in:
Trade Show Booth on the Expo floor
3 Photo Booths on the Expo Floor
A Seminar (Friday 9/18 from 1:30-3pm) entitled: The Key to Getting Your Project Published
A pre-convention program (Thursday 9/17) on the “Business of Architectural Photography” (location still TBD)

Call for Volunteers: Candidates ideally should be well versed in the Business of Architectural Photography if they plan on volunteering for the Trade Show Booth and/or able to do executive headshots if they plan to volunteer for the Photo Booths. All volunteers will get free Expo floor pass (for walking the floor once your shift is over).

The Trade Show Booth will need to be set-up on Friday the 18th. The booth can be hand-carried (rolled) into the hall without any need for union labor. Staffing, set-up and tear down will need to be scheduled. Tear-down will be the evening of the 20th.

Photo Booths (3) will also need to be set-up on Friday the 18th and torn-down the evening of the 20th. Here’s what they have planned for us: http://www.asla.org/2009meeting/expoPhoto.html . We have been given a large area adjacent to the Trade Show booth.

We will be securing lighting equipment from a local rental house. From the hall we will be asking for a small draped table in each booth for your laptop and a stool for the sitters.

Photographers need to bring their own CAMERA, TRIPOD and LAPTOP and can set-up lighting as they choose. You may bring other accessories or lights. The files will need to be processed on the spot after the sitter chooses which they liked. Small files (web only) will need to be copied to the ASMP branded flash drives. Photographers may give their business cards to each sitter as a way to get in touch should they need a larger file or prints at which point the photographer could charge what they want for those services.

Staffing:

Friday, September 18th (8am – 1pm at the latest)
ASMP Booth Set-up: 2-4 people
Photo Booth Set-up (Friday): 2-4 people, also need to coordinate getting gear from rental house

Saturday/Sunday, September 19/20 (9am – 5pm in 2 shifts)
ASMP Trade Show Booth: need 2-3 people at all times.
Could be a morning shift and afternoon shift, so 4-6 people per day.
One or two to be available for ASMP questions, one to coordinate shooting schedules.
Photo Booths: need 3 at all times, morning shift and afternoon shift, 6 per day, so 12 total. You may volunteer for more than one shift depending upon response and availability.

Everything (all booths) will be dissembled at the end of Sunday (5-9pm). Need a minimum of 2 people per booth, so 8 total. Could be the same people that pull the last shift in each booth plus a few extra hands.

Monday, September 21st (8-10am)
Need to coordinate who will return gear to rental house.

We may also plan a group dinner for Friday night depending on the level of interest and participation.

Any questions should be directed to David Seide via e-mail: David@DefinedSpace.com

COCKTAILS & CRITIQUES IS COMING TO MILWAUKEE!!!!!

August 10, 2009

Have a current personal project that you have been working on and need some feedback?

Join the ASMP Gallery Committee for a night out of cocktails and critiques. The Gallery committee believes that the best way to combat slow times in business is to get shooting the projects you’ve been meaning to tackle, the things you love, the things that matter. Moderated by fine art photographer, teacher/mentor Lawrence D’Attalio, Cocktails and Critiques is a group critique, discussion and support session for professional photographers (that’s right everyone else gets to chime in too).

This event will help 6 photographers get from ideas to plans. D’Attalio is an accomplished fine art photographer who has exhibited in multiple counties and is a founding member of the Underwood Foundation, a nonprofit that does social documentary work, particulary in Vietnam. The evening will encourage and inspire you to start thinking about your own personal projects and give you the chance to talk and bounce ideas off other photographers in the community.

Cocktails and Critiques is a creative and productive environment where you are encouraged to think consciously about your creative process and connect with your peers within the photography community. Come Mix, Mingle and critique. You do not have to be showing work in order to come.

Want to be one of the six? These are the requirements for showing your work.
This must be a current body of work. It does not have to be complete; works in progress are just fine for us.

If you are interested in showing work contact Marie Phillips at amymariephillips@gmail.com or (708) 804-0215

First come first serve basis.

When: September 2, 2009 @ 6:30
Where: Gargage, 1701 N. Arlington Pl, Milwaukee WI
Cost: No fee, bring friends and have a cocktail with us

Lawrence is an American fine art photographer whose work has covered various locations in the world, including France and Italy, Vietnam and Japan. He has a bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisville, and did further art studies at the University of Wisconsin. He studied photography with Ansel Adams, Pirkle Jones and Al Weber.

Lawrence has had many solo exhibits internationally and in the United States. He has received an artist residency at Campus Ha Noi, and has grants from a number of foundations that have enabled his work in Ha Noi and elsewhere. Additionally his photographs have been published in many periodicals in America and in South East Asia.

In February 2008 Lawrence had a solo exhibition of thirty-eight large prints from his “OK Ha Noi” project at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts. He collaborated with Vietnamese photographer Tran Quoc Khanh whose parallel exhibit was also at the museum. Over 500 guests attended the opening reception.

Studio THO Gallery in Vietnam and VP Gallery of Photography in Milwaukee currently represent his work.

Lawrence has also been involved in promoting the growth of fine art photography. He is the originating founder of the Coalition of Photographic Arts (CoPA) in Milwaukee. Earlier he directed the Photography Collectors Inc. mutual fund.

Most of Lawrence’s art works are created as signed limited editions with a maximum of 12 prints for each image. Please see the artist’s web site for further information and to see photographs from his other projects at www.dattiliostudio.com.

Cocktails and Critique, August 20th

June 15, 2009

Have a current personal project that you have been working on and need some feedback?

Join the ASMP Gallery Committee for a night out of cocktails and critiques. The Gallery committee believes that the best way to combat slow times in business is to get shooting the projects you’ve been meaning to tackle, the things you love, the things that matter. Moderated by Natasha Egan, associate director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Cocktails and Critiques is a group critique, discussion and support session for professional photographers (that’s right everyone else gets to chime in too).
This event will help 6 photographers get from ideas to plans. Egan has juried local and international exhibitions, contributed to essays and teaches at Columbia. The evening will encourage and inspire you to start thinking about your own personal projects and give you the chance to talk and bounce ideas off other photographers in the community.

Cocktails and Critiques is a creative and productive environment where you are encouraged to think consciously about your creative process and connect with your peers within the photography community. Come Mix, Mingle and critique. You do not have to be showing work in order to come.

Want to be one of the seven? These are the requirements for showing your work.
This must be a current body of work. It does not have to be complete; works in progress are just fine for us.

If you are interested in showing work contact Stephanie Graham at missgraham@gmail.com or 847.899.3564

First come first serve basis.

When: August 20, 2009 @ 6:30
Where: Jaks Tap. 901 W Jackson
Cost: No fee, bring friends and have a cocktail with us

Natasha’s Bio:
Natasha Egan is associate director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. Egan has organized dozens of international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; and The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies

Mix with Pix

May 29, 2009

The Assistants and Associates Committee held our first event on Wednesday night, May 27, at the Green Eye Lounge.  ASMP members, APA members, and non-members got to know each other and enjoyed browsing through prints from fellow photographers.

Photos, courtesy of Ann Mehrman, are here.

In the next few months, similar events will start happening more frequently, with the goal of creating a regular gathering every month or two.  Please feel free to contact committee chair Marc Altman at marc@marcaltman.com with any feedback on the evening or suggestions for future activities.

Posted by Marc Altman www.marcaltman.com

“I Stick at Negotiating” – Blake Disher

April 24, 2009

If you didn’t get a chance to hear/see this at the SB2 event last year this was your opportunity to get a glimpse at what was so great about that event. Blake provided not only perspective but practical guidance based in his years of successful experience as a professional photographer. There’s was a wealth of information provided that placed the emphasis on your listening skills. This is always the first thing that comes to mind when you find yourself on the phone with a potential client. Some other key things discussed included:

Preparing for a negotiation
Increasing your clout
Knowing when to walk away

Comments from some of the attendees show the benefits of the session that were had.

“The most valuable thing I learned tonight was the sales technique of the golden silence. Blake likes to say that the first person who talks looses after a price is quoted to a potential client.”

“The most important thing Blake said tonight is to know the value of your work in relationship to other photographers, what sets you apart from them.”

“I’m motivated to be a better photographer – inspired to be a better salesperson”

Marcus Maddox
1st Vice President, ASMP Chicago/Midwest
mmaddox@att.net
www.marcusmaddox.com

ASMP Chicago/Midwest Soup Kitchen & Town Hall Meeting On Surviving This Economy (because failure is not an option!)”

March 20, 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009 – 6:30 PM
Ferguson Auditorium
Columbia College
Chicago
600 S Michigan AvenueFirst Floor(corner of Michigan and Harrison)
No Charge For Admission

We’re all concerned about how the current economic situation impacts
photographers as well as advertisers; attendees will certainly
appreciate, and benefit from, three successful Chicago photographers
and an ad agency art buyer who will lend their perspectives.

The format will include a catered social hour (meet, eat & drink with
fellow attendees), then enter the meeting where we will pass the
wireless microphone, hear from the audience and the panel’s
suggestions for survival strategies.

The panelists confirmed to-date are…

Jim Krantz, Photographer
Susan Carr, Photographer
Mark Segal, Photographer
Michael Bilbrey, Art Buyer, Leo Burnett
Joseph Pobereskin, Photographer, Moderator, ASMP Chicago/Midwest

to RSVP please send an email to joseph@pobereskin.com

Paul Elledge: the photographer and his work

March 13, 2009

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Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum
Presents
Paul Elledge: the photographer and his work
Chicago, March 20th, 2009, 7:30PM – 9:00 PM
Non-members $10 in advance /$15 at the door

47 W. Polk Mezzanine-7
Chicago, IL 60605
www.chicagophotoforum.org
Local Contact: Karen Hirsch (312) 475-1880

Paul will show his work and discuss issues such as instinct, self-confidence, and trust in the creative process as well as methods for collaborating with clients and subjects, handling difficult personalities, and working effectively under pressure.

Paul Elledge is a Chicago-based photographer and filmmaker whose clients include major advertising agencies, record companies, and corporations. He has been honored with numerous national and international awards for work that melds photographic realism with painterly qualities of illustration. Paul has photographed such celebrities as AC/DC, Billy Corgan, Jennifer Hudson, Ministry, Willie Nelson, Trent Reznor, Luciano Pavarotti, and Oprah Winfrey to name a few. His work has appeared worldwide in such publications as Audubon, Fast Company, Life, Men’s Health, People, Rolling Stone, Time, and Wired, among others. Paul’s book Luna, Bella Luna chronicles the people of Vesale, Italy, and he has also collaborated on several books with chef Charlie Trotter as well as Chef Art Smith and most recently Chef Rick Bayless. In addition to photography, Paul has directed several music videos and television commercials.

His Web site address is www.paulelledge.com.

Since space is limited please preregister: Fort D Program Registration Form.pdf

Blake Disher’s ASMP Program – “I Stink at Negotiating”

February 26, 2009


Tuesday April 7, 2009
7pm to 9pm

Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash
8th floor
Chicago, Il

Do you panic when you have to discuss money with a client? Do you talk too fast, ramble or sound indignant? Do you give in too fast to a lower price or broad licensing terms?

Join Blake Discher for his highly acclaimed “Strictly Business 2″ lecture on how to win jobs. Blake will teach you the steps to become a top negotiator. This critical skill can change your business in the most profound way — more and better work! Blake will walk you through real world scenarios, show you how to listen and talk to prospects turning them into loyal clients.

Seminar topics:
Learn how to prepare for a negotiation.
Researching the client.
Increasing your clout.
Listening skills.
When is it time to walk away?
The follow-up is critical.

Door Prizes
A copy of Microsoft Expression Media (a $299 value)
A copy of The ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography book

Registration options
Costs
$35.00—ASMP Member
$60.00—Non-member
$50.00—Professional Association member*
$0.00—Special price for students and faculty of the academic institution donating meeting space for this seminar*
$20.00—Student*

Click Here to Register

Posted by Von R Buzard