APA National - NED Job Opportunity

National Executive Director

American Photographic Artists

American Photographic Artists (APA) is a not-for-profit industry trade organization dedicated to the success of Professional Photographers and Image Makers. APA pursues its mission of elevating photographers art and works while fearlessly protecting their content. As the most prestigious national organization for professional photographers, we are committed to leading our industry into the future. APA provides access to the most progressive local programming, determined activism, influential mentorships, affordable insurance options, and collective industry benefits. Supporting our community’s financial and artistic well being, we initiate, develop, and deliver the advantages necessary for a successful career in professional photography.

APA was founded in 1981 under the name Advertising Photographers of America. In June of 2010 in response to the changes within the photographic industry the organization changed the name to American Photographic Artists with the goal of being more inclusive.

APA is a national organization with seven regional chapters (Editorial Photographers, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Midwest, New York, San Diego and San Francisco) as well as four associate chapters (Charlotte NC, Colorado, Northwest and Washington, D.C). There are currently over 2,600 APA members.

INTRODUCTION

It is a critical time in the photographic industry and one of unprecedented change. APA is actively responding to those changes, advocating on the behalf of photographers everywhere and taking a leadership role within the industry to shape the changes taking place. The Leadership of APA is seeking to fill a newly created position of National Executive Director (NED), essential to furthering APA’s mission.

The position of the NED requires a highly motivated, focused individual with strong communication and negotiating skills, who works well with the National Executive Board (NEB), the National Operations Director (NOD). The character of the position requires an informed leader with a collaborative and inclusive style who is, first and foremost, dedicated to furthering the mission of APA and its members. The candidate must be disciplined and able to work independently.

Complete NED job info is here

 

 

 

APA SF & Apple Event: APA AWARDS Best Of Show Winner Amos Nachoum, 6.20.13

AMOS NACHOUM

APA NATIONAL AWARDS BEST OF SHOW WINNER

Thursday, June 20, 2013

7:00 - 8:00 PM

Apple Store

One Stockton Street (upstairs)

San Francisco

Free Admission

Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis

Amos Nachoum is a photographer and explorer. 

He has shot just about everything there is to shoot, but what he loves most is wildlife photography. Especially if it’s in the water. And he has become world-famous at it.

Amos’ photography has been published around the globe. His editorial work has appeared in National Geographic, Time, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Le Figaro, and Der Spiegel magazines, plus in the books The Living Ocean, The World of Nature, and Oceans. He has been profiled on television shows such as National Geographic Explorer, Today, and Good Morning America as well as in People, Esquire, and Money magazines. 

Nikon, Communication Arts, and BBC Wildlife have recognized him as Photographer of the Year.  Recently APA National awarded Amos' image (shown above) of a Penguin and Leopard Seal  "Best of Show" in the 2012 APA AWARDS.

Based in Pacific Grove, California, Amos operates the premier and cutting-edge adventure-travel company, Big Animals Expeditions. These voyages take him and his guests around the world to observe, photograph, and revere the most magnificent creatures on the planet.

In addition, he works tirelessly to bring attention to some of the most fragile regions of the underwater realm, with preservation of the environment foremost in every encounter.

Don’t miss his spectacular website: http://www.amosphotography.com


Wayne Miller 1918-2013

Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who helped revolutionize documentary photography and lead the movement to renew California’s forests, died today, May 22, 2013 at age 94.    

Mr. Miller, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1918, began his career over the Pacific, shooting photographs of the Pacific combat theater during World War II, having been hand selected by Capt. Edward Steichen for his elite naval combat photographic unit that documented the war effort. 

One of Mr. Miller’s most recognized photographs from the war shows a wounded pilot being pulled from his fighter plane.  By tragic coincidence, Mr. Miller had been scheduled for the flight and the photographer who had taken his place was shot and killed while documenting the firefight. While Mr. Miller’s war photography documented soldiers both at ease and in combat, tragedy dominated.

Mr. Miller was one of the first to arrive at Hiroshima to document the devastation left by the atomic blast.  Mr. Miller throughout his life kept a piece of the rubble, a Japanese teacup into which glass had melted, at the doorway to his darkroom as a memorial. 

After the war, Mr. Miller celebrated life by finding it on Chicago’s South Side.  The predominantly African American community settled partly by former sharecroppers from Mississippi and Georgia invited Mr. Miller into their homes and their lives. The Guggenheim Foundation awarded him two fellowships to photograph the community between 1946 and 1948.  While these photographs included celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Eartha Kitt in their early careers, most of the photographs were of ordinary people in ordinary settings.

He then picked up his growing family and with his wife, Joan, moved west to California on the encouragement of fellow documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.  Mr. Miller and Joan settled in Orinda, California, and Mr. Miller’s Orinda studio became a gathering spot for iconic photographers of the day, including Lange and Steichen. 

Mr. Miller and Steichen worked together until Steichen’s death in 1973, also at the age of 94.  Steichen, and Mr. Miller as his assistant, embarked on the Family of Man project in 1953, a collection of images of humanity from around the globe, in response to World War II.  Steichen, then the curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, sought a photographic representation of the similarities among people. They sorted through nearly 2 million photographs before selecting 503 images from 273 photographers in 68 countries.  The exhibit opened in the Museum of Modern Art in 1955 and traveled the world.  The exhibit was turned into a book by the same name and has sold 4 million copies.

            The exhibit and book included several personal pictures by Mr. Miller, including a portrait of his daughter, Jeanette, and an image of the birth of his son David being delivered by Mr. Miller’s father.  The image, features a towering umbilical cord as the surgeon grandfather lifted the newborn upside down by the leg.

For the next several decades, Mr. Miller traveled for Life Magazine, Ebony, News Week, Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, and other magazines of the time.  Other projects included a collaboration with Dr. Benjamin Spock and John B. Reinhart on the book “A Baby’s First Year” and Mr. Miller’s own book, “The World is Young.” 

In the mid-1970’s, Mr. Miller retired the camera professionally to pursue a passion for California’s redwood forests.  Mr. Miller and Joan themselves owned a small patch of forest land in Mendocino County they had bought when nearly bare, clear-cut land and had watched the trees regenerate with their stewardship.  As a landowner, Mr. Miller became aware of tax laws that encouraged clear cutting.  In response, he spearheaded an effort to eliminate those laws and regulations that inadvertently penalized forest owners for keeping trees as a founding  member of the Forest Landowners of California. The group’s work resulted in major changes that led to creation of sustainable regulations for forest management for California forest land that remain in place today.  Mr. Miller’s own forest land continues to serve as an example of sustainable logging practices.

            Among the only photographs Mr. Miller made after his retirement were those documenting the growth of his redwood forest.  He had photographed his wife, Joan, standing on the clear cut property in 1958 surrounded by large stretches of bare soil, eroded slopes, and scattered remaining trees.  In 1998, Joan stood in the same spot with a continuous, verdant redwood forest in the background.  Mr. Miller is also survived by his four children, Jeanette Miller, David Miller, Dana Blencowe, and Peter Miller, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild with another on the way.

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  • Further press contacts are available regarding Mr. Miller’s forestry work from Craig Blencowe.
  • Magnum Bio: http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R131HKN
  • Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_F._Miller
  • Mr. Miller was a member of Magnum Photos and president from 1962-1966.
  • Mr. Miller was a longtime member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers and named chairman in 1954.
  • The above described photograph of David continues to circulate in space on the satellite the Voyager I after having been selected by Carl Sagen.
  • In the mid-1960s, Mr. Miller and Joan moved to Washington D.C. to work with the Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall. Mr. Miller worked in the US Park Service to develop environmental awareness programs.
  • 1967-1970 Spec. Ass’t to the Director, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Receives Department of Interior “Award for Meritorious Service” for developing environmental education programs.
  • 1972 Yosemite Institute, Founding Board Member.
  • In 1970 he joined the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as executive director of the Public Broadcasting Environmental Center.
  • 1975 Joan and Wayne Miller named “California Tree Farmers of the Year.”
  • 1975 Founding President, Forest Landowners of California
  • 1985 Elected a Member, Society of American Foresters
  • 1987-1989 President of the Redwood Region Conservation Council
  • 1996 ASMP Photojournalism Award
  • 1999 Japanese edition of World Is Young published by Fukuinkan Shoten
  • 2000 Chicago’s South Side, Published by University of California Press with essay by Gordon Parks
  • Honor Award for Distinguished Services in Journalism, University of Missouri, September 22, 2000.



 

APA SF Portfolio Review update

Last night the APA SF chapter hosted a portfolio review at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. The sold out event was a smashing success with many meetings and introductions. Plus there was fabulous food catered by Astellar Productions. Yummy pulled pork sandwiches. Always a thumbs up. Here are some photos of our wonderful reviewers and a few lucky photographers sitting in. Also a big thanks to our our sponsors Agency Access, Dickerman Prints, BlastDigital Studio and ARCHIVE Magazine for helping out with this event. [gallery]

NOW SOLD OUT - PORTFOLIO REVIEW FOR APA PHOTOGRAPHER MEMBERS ONLY 3.5.13

THIS EVENT IS NOW COMPLETELY SOLD OUT

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013
6:00 to 10:00 PM
111 MINNA STREET
SAN FRANCISCO
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THIS PORTFOLIO REVIEW EVENT IS ONLY FOR :
APA Professional Photographer Members (PHO)
APA Emerging Photographer Members (EMG)
APA International Members (INT)
APA Emeritus Members (EMR)
APA EP UPGRADED Members: APA EP PHO, APA EP EMG, APA EP INT
APA EP Founding Members
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American Photographic Artists, San Francisco presents a very special opportunity for APA Photographer Members to meet one-on-one, face-to-face, with insightful and influential Reviewers. This is no ordinary review event at a studio - it’s more like a private party just for Pro Photographers and Creatives. 

We've lined up an impressive list of world-class Creatives, Agents, Photo Editors and Curators. You choose three Reviewers to meet with, to help you refine your portfolio, and advance your career. In each 15 minute appointment, you'll be able to show what you do and who you are, and the reviewer will be able to offer you real-world feedback.

We’ve booked it at the impressive 111 Minna Gallery, around the corner from SFMOMA, and there will be an exclusive, no-host-bar Cocktail Hour at the end of the event, so you can get to know each other, and begin the collaborative creative process.

Please don’t delay; register today. This event could sell out very quickly, and your Reviewer choices will be based upon the order in which your Reviewer Choice lists are received.
So register online, and email us your six top choices, in order of preference, today.
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APA SF PHOTOGRAPHER MEMBER PORTFOLIO REVIEW
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013      6:00 to 10:00 PM
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EVENT FUNDAMENTALS
  • Your membership must be current when you register, and on the event date
  • Admission includes the no-host-bar private party from 9 -10 PM with the Reviewers
  • Everyone who attends must be 21+ years old
  • Register online, then email us your PRIORITIZED list of SIX top Reviewer choices
  • Your THREE appointments will be booked close together whenever possible
  • By 6PM on March 1, we will send you an email with your 3 confirmed Appointments
  • Do not register if you will not be able to attend during the 6:00 - 9:00 Review hours
  • Registration is required; space is limited for this special reserved appointment event
  • Sorry, registration is not available by phone
  • Please plan to get there well before your first Appointment on Review day
  • We cannot change any appointments after we have confirmed them
  • We will do our very best to book your three top Reviewer choices
  • If a Reviewer has to cancel, we will re-schedule your next choice
  • All payments are non-refundable. Thank you very much.
You’ll get to personally show your portfolio to THREE of the Reviewers. Choose your top SIX Reviewer preferences, and list them in order, and we’ll do our very best to give you your top THREE choices. Everyone will have the opportunity to meet and talk with nearly ALL of the Reviewers during the Private Party from 9 to 10 PM.
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REGISTRATION FEE : $80.12 (the EventBrite fee is included)
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ONLY THESE MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO REGISTER:
APA Professional Photographer Members (PHO)
APA Emerging Photographer Members (EMG)
APA International Members (INT)
APA Emeritus Members (EMR)
APA EP UPGRADED Members: APA EP PHO, APA EP EMG, APA EP INT
APA EP Founding Members
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REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
1. REGISTER AND PAY ONLINE HERE (the EventBrite fee is included)
2. EMAIL YOUR PRIORITIZED 6 REVIEWER CHOICE LIST TO: info@apasf.com
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FREE BONUS REVIEW: Kristina Hicks, former Art Buyer at Saatchi & Saatchi LA will be at the special Agency Access Event Sponsors’ table where she will give brief, free, informal reviews of your work. No appointments with Kristina is necessary. Stop by in between, before, or after your scheduled appointments anytime.

Kristina Hicks former Art Buyer at Saatchi & Saatchi LA

The International Photo Awards juror and frequent APA guest lecturer was most recently an art buyer/producer at Saatchi & Saatchi in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia, where she played a key role in their Toyota campaigns. She has also worked on campaigns for Volkswagen, Ocean Spray and The Truth Campaign, as well as event/music production for artists including Lenny Kravitz and Fleetwood Mac. Kristina’s love of photography dates back to the first time she held her father’s Leica 35MM Rangefinder. Now, as a Creative Consultant, the experienced portfolio editor and Los Angeles resident is excited to help other artists fulfill their commercial potential.

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REVIEWERS (Scheduled to appear)
REVIEWERS’ INFO INCLUDED DOWN BELOW (bios, clients, websites)
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Quba Michalski, Creative Director, Autofuss
Nichole Berger, Art Director + Kami Shallenberger, Assoc Content Producer, Heat Agency
Ilana Diamond, Director Of Photography, SF Magazine
Micah Lebrun, Curator, 111 Minna Gallery
Anna Alexander, Photo Director, Dwell Magazine
Beth Johnson, Photographers' Rep, Friend + Johnson, Inc.
Jennifer Chapman, Artist Representative, Jennifer Chapman Represents
Jacqueline Fodor, Director of Print & Experiential Production, Venables Bell & Partners
Jess Shay, Print and Art Producer, Venables Bell & Partners
Tanya Spanier, Senior Art Director, The Hive Advertising
Danny Sanchez, Gallery Manager, Modernbook Gallery
Natalie A. Betlazar,  Photography Manager | Global Marketing, Logitech Inc
Porscha Ricketts, Photography Manager | Global Marketing, Logitech Inc.
Karin Fittante, Art Buyer / Photo Director / Producer
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REVIEWERS’ INFO IS HERE (bios, clients, websites)

APA SF Creative Speaker series resumes with Christian Peacock & Jody Frost.

Last Thursday evening, February 7th. APA SF chair Christian Peacock and his creative partner Jody Frost presented “The Collaborative Spirit”. Together they talked about the invention of the creative muse “Isabella” and the transformative nature of serious illness. The well-attended event was the first of the year at the newly design Apple Store in downtown San Francisco. The audience of the well attended event where able to hear how two different creative voices can come together to express a new vision without any predetermined agenda. How Italy, illness, friendship and trust help ferment the muse. All photos shot by Jennifer Fox.[gallery]

APA SF SELECTED WORKS Exhibition Opening Night at AAU's 625 Gallery

About 125 people viewed the 36 impressive images of the Selected Works Exhibition during the three hour Opening Night party. This special event is just one example of the ongoing mutually beneficial partnership between the Academy of Art University (an APA Educational Institution member) and American Photographic Artists. Special thanks to Will Mosgrove, AAU Director of Graduate Photography for coordinating the Selected Works Exhibition.

The work shown comes from the 2013 one-hundred Something Personal" photo competition images that were selected as the best personal work of local, regional and national photographers. The judges selected the top thirty-six images from the show which are now on display through February 27th at the AAU's 625 Sutter Street Gallery. Gallery hours are 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Current and Alumni AAU students represented in the show include: Stan Musilek, Rebecca Daniels, Dwight Eschliman, Yifei Gue & Tom Penpark, Jun Takano, Hemali Acharya Zaveri, Mark Hanson, Bailey Harada-Stone, Mercedes Merjil, Kristina Varaksina, and Sierra Hartman. More information and a complete list of Exhibitors is here. The entire 100 image Something Personal online Gallery is here. APA would also like to again thank the many generous sponsors (all listed and linked on the online gallery portal page) who made these two successful Exhibitions possible:

APA EP Members Only Merger Celebration in San Francisco (1.24.13)

About 75 APA & APA EP members celebrated, Blackwell Files Photo/Event Space
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LEFT - J. Michael Tucker, Shane O'Neill, EP Founder Richard Morgenstein
MIDDLE - EP Founders: Ed Caldwell, Bob Houser, Bill McLeod
RIGHT - EP Founder Bob Holmgren, EP Webmaster Rory MacLysaght
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LEFT - Lisa Wiseman, Frank Gaglione, Anthony Lindsey 

MIDDLE - Peter Samuels, Susette Blackwell, Christian Peacock

RIGHT - Alison McCreery, Margo Moritz
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SPECIAL THANKS TO : Our generous event Sponsors, The Blackwell Files, Dickerman Prints, and Birdman Inc. The Blackwell Files now has great Rental Studios ! Also, a big thanks to Casey Fyfe, for her excellent event photos. Casey works for Blackwell Files as a photographer and casting coordinator.  All images above © 2013 Casey Fyfe www.caseyfyfe.com

 

APA National 2013 Photo Industry Survey launched; $2500 in prizes

THE APA SURVEY

We cordially invite all working photographers to actively participate in the American Photographic Artists 2013 Photography Industry Survey, the most comprehensive survey ever conducted by APA, to read the pulse of our exciting and ever-evolving industry. Unlike most other surveys, this one is conducted by pro photographers, for pro photographers.

VITAL INFORMATION

Your anonymous participation in this survey will result in one of the best appraisals of the current state of our industry, as well as help uncover future trends, and facilitate planning. Questions cover a wide range of important subjects including rates, marketing, technology and production. The survey results will benefit photographers who want to know where they stand in this ever-changing business landscape, and arm us all with vital information that will help us succeed in moving our businesses forward.

ANONYMITY ASSURED

We have created a sophisticated survey with a special system that lets you opt in to be eligible for the great prizes. Your identity will only be accessible if your email is randomly selected as a winner, and we contact you to send you your prize. (Prize winners will be notified directly and not be announced, publicly.) You can easily forgo the prize drawing, if you prefer.

$2500 IN GREAT PRIZES

Random survey participants will be selected to receive one of our cool prizes, including a Sony Alpha NEX-6 Camera with 16-50mm lens ($999 value), two APA Professional Photographer Memberships ($350 value, each), an Apple iPod Touch, Black, 32GB ($299 value), a Think Tank Retrospective 50 bag ($239 value) or a Think Tank Airport 4-Sight rolling bag ($249 value).

The survey takes only minutes to complete and is open to all pro photographers, so please participate! The 2013 APA Photography Industry Survey closes on March 11.

APA SF Selected Works Exhibition: Feb 2-27, at 625 Gallery, Opening Feb 7

Top (l to r): © 2012 Stan Musilek, © 2012 Kerry Mansfield (Judges Best of Show), © 2012 Tim Griffith (3rd Place)

Center: © 2012 Catseye / Tom Penpark, Yifei Gu, © 2012 Travis Tank (1st Place), © 2012 Caterina Bernardi (2nd Place)

Bottom : © 2012 Mitch Tobias, © 2012 Rudi Dundas, © 2012 Michael O’Neal, © 2012 Kristina Varaksina

"THE RESIDENTS" at Dickerman Prints 1.24.13 to 3.7.13

"THE RESIDENTS"

ON VIEW JANUARY 24 THROUGH MARCH 7

"THE RESIDENTS" exhibition will showcase new photographic work from the first session of our Artist-in-Residence program.

An opening reception will be held Thursday, January 24th from 6:00 to 8:30pm.

Over the course of her residency, Amanda Boe traveled frequently to the Black Hills region of South Dakota, documenting her brother's relationship to the landscape for her series "Midwest Meets West." Her photographs explore his sense of purpose towards the forests and wild lands he protects as a firefighter, and the changes his environs undergo over time.

Jon McNeal explores the environments at the margins of our everyday. His photographs of scenic and transitional spaces compare the formal beauty and societal value of each, sharing landscapes that open up and unfold in an immediate, experiential way. Jon's perspective shows each place to be as familiar as our day-to-day environments, even those that are, in fact, completely alien terrain.

Charles Purvis photographs natural objects in unnatural arrangements, combining disparate elements like deer antlers and squash, or clementine oranges with an armature of cutlery. Charles' unconventional use of the camera involves placing objects inside the camera body to project shadows onto his still lives, lending another layer of line, space, and design to the resulting photographs.

Feel free to RSVP through Facebook or just stop by!