MEETING CANCELED - BREWS AND NEWS advocacy meeting

MEETING CANCELED - BREWS AND NEWS advocacy meeting

Food and refreshment will be provided!

Visual Journalists and reporters will gather for a discussion of photographer’s rights and for an opportunity to network at a Brews and News meeting on Thursday, March 1 beginning at 6 p.m., at J&R Music and Computer World’s The Café at 1 Park Row. We are will have food and refreshments sponsored and organized by the National Press Photographers Association.

PLEASE RSVP our Facebook site so we have an idea how many to expect.

This event is also supported by the New York Press Photographers Association and representatives are expected to attend.

Afterwards, we will gather for a few brews at the Beekman Pub at 15 Beekman Street in Manhattan.

J&R will also show off choice products and offer special discounts to those who attend this special event.

We will also discuss the upcoming NPPA Northern Short Course that all photographers can attend or decide to attend any time before it begins on March 8.

The meeting follows a letter sent by a coalition of organizations demanding answers and changes in procedures by the NYPD and its office of Public Information, which have been derided for failure to respect press freedoms.

We will have experienced NPPA representatives and photographic leaders who will lead discussions on recent incidents involving police and other authorities who have interfered with or impeded visual journalists from doing their jobs. Robert Roth, a photojournalist and practicing attorney, will be able to discuss the legal issues surrounding some of these incidents.

We will discuss incidents from the recent Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, in addition to other acts of deliberate interference by authorities at news incidents. This is your chance to sound off on the issues before a major address occurs at this year’s Northern Short Course in Virginia in March led by NPPA Chief Counsel Mickey Osterreicher and Advocacy Chair Alicia Calzada-Wagner who is now practicing copyright law.

Discussions will allow us to bring together complaints by visual journalists and assemble them for the NPPA legal counsel for possible actions in the future. We encourage photographers to bring written information and reports, using complaint forms created by the NYPPA, available at nyppa.org . These forms were put together to help create patterns of press interference.

If you have photos of visual journalists being interfered with, obstructed, assault or arrested, please send low res images to toddphoto@aol.com. We will show these photos at the meeting in a slide show presentation.

THE NYPPA YEAR IN PICTURES 2012 WILL BE JUDGED BY!!!!!!

This years judging of the NYPPA YEAR IN PICTURES 2012 will be by 3 extraordinary judges and the NYPPA is pleased to announce that they are:

Melanie Burford- was part of the team of Dallas Morning News photographers who received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In 2009 she won the Emmy Award for her portfolio of video documentary work at the Lone Star Emmy Advanced Media Awards. Melanie’s work has been recognized at the 74^th National Headliner Awards, the Harry Chapin Media Awards, the Clarion Awards, the Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International. An adjunct professor at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, her passion for teaching has gained her keynote speaking roles including the Kodak Seminar Series touring Australia and New Zealand in 2008. Originally from New Zealand, Melanie’s career began in 1990, working at The Evening Post before moving to America in 1999, becoming a staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News in 2003 and moving to New York in 2009. She is a founding member of the photo collective Prime.

Bill Eppridge - After his graduation from college, Eppridge worked for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and then went on to work for LIFE. During the 1960s and until the magazine folded in 1972 Eppridge was a staff photographer for LIFE. He covered many topics and news events, often finding himself in history-making situations.While working for LIFE, Eppridge photographed celebrities such as Alan Alda on the set of M*A*S*H, Gene Hackman, Raquel Welch and others. During the Apollo 13 mission, Epperidge was the only photographer allowed into Marilyn Lovell’s home even as her husband was stranded in orbit above the moon. In 1968 while five feet in front of his subject and friend, Robert F. Kennedy lay on the floor of the kitchen of Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel, mortally wounded by a bullet fired by Sirhan B. Sirhan. Eppridge went into the crowd and began holding people back, but every once in a while, he would reach down and click his camera.

David Burnett- is a photojournalist with more than 4 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York based photojournalism agency, now entering its 36th year. In a recent issue of American Photo magazine Burnett was named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography." He has been a contract photographer for TIME since 2003, reprising a position he held for 15 years in the 1970s and 1980s. The May/June 2010 issue of American PHOTO did a 10-page story on David, and his unique talent for staying ahead of the times. In July 2011, David worked with Photographers for Hope to create a workshop for homeless newsvendors in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Rules of the Contest prohibit any member of the NYPPA to contact the Judges in any way. If the Board finds out that a member has contacted a Judge that member will be expelled from the New York Press Photographers Asociation.

Thank you

The Contest Committee

Join us for the Annual NYPPA Contest judging Feb 25th at CUNY

Join us for the Annual NYPPA Contest judging

Graduate School of Journalism

The City University of New York

ROOM 308 (3rd Floor)

219 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018

THE NYPPA YEAR IN PICTURES 2012 WILL BE JUDGED BY!!!!!!

Please RSVP on our Facebook page as 'GOING' so we have an idea as to how many people will be joining us throughout the day.

Stop by or lend a hand its always a fun time for all.

Light lunch and drinks will be provided.

Not able to make it on the 25th? Be sure to check NYPPA.org for contest results.

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Subscribe to the NYPPA's Twitter account @TheNYPPA

Hey folks, there will be a new Twitter account for the New York Press Photographers Association.  The new account will reside @TheNYPPA. The old Twitter account @nyppaphoto will be shut down.  Thank you.

NYPPA Contest Deadline Extended to Feb 8th 2012

The NYPPA Contest committee along with the President , David Pokress and Contest Chair Bruce Cotler have been listening to your concerns about the Contest Deadline. After all the discussion the contest deadline is going to be extended to February 8th at midnite. So everyone please have your entries in by that time and this is the only extension that will be given. Thanks again for entering and good luck!!!!

Bill Perlman

Contest entry information is here.