GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING APRIL 24
Meeting will take place at 630 on April 24 at Dennis Brack Studio. Chris Usher will present his work, featuring his 2006 WHNPA Project Grant One of Us: Portraits & Interviews of Hurricane Katrina’s America
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Apr 23
THE EYES OF HISTORY GALA TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE…
LAST CHANCE... RSVP by this FRIDAY
RSVP deadline for the Annual ‘Eyes of History’ Awards Gala is THIS FRIDAY, April 25 at 5:00 p.m. Please take a minute to confirm your presence at the gala. Don’t assume that someone else has taken care of arrangements. There are several companies that we haven’t heard from …. yet. We’d hate to miss you!!!!!
Apr 17
Golf, anyone?
2008 WHNPA ANNUAL GOLF OUTING
May 9, 2008
Penderbrook Golf Club
Fairfax, Virginia
8AM SHOTGUN START
Format: Captains Choice (Best Ball)
$85, includes greens fees, carts, lunch buffet, prizes and gift.
Directions:
Penderbrook Golf Club
3700 Golf Trail Lane
Fairfax, VA 22033
703.385.3700 (Phone)
FROM I-66:
Exit 57, Fair Oaks and Winchester (Route 50 North)
West Ox Road North. Right at first traffic light which is the entrance to Penderbrook and Penderbrook Drive. Follow this to the end, past apartments, townhouses, condos, and single family homes. Road turns into Golf Trail Lane.Golf Club is straight ahead at the end
Hole sponsorships are available for $100 per hole, includes sign on a tee box announcing your organization’s sponsorship. Please send checks payable to WHNPA to:
Matthew Cavanaugh c/o EPA
1122 National Press Building
Washington, DC, 20045.
Or contact Matthew Cavanaugh at cavanaugh@epa.eu or 202-236-4117 for more information.
If you’d like to pay online with a credit card, use this link.
Apr 06
“ Members — if you’re going to be covering the Olympics in China, please get in touch with Heidi Elswick
— Use this link to contact Heidi
David Hume Kennerly at the Q & A cafe…. 5 part interview on You Tube. Interesting take on being a presidential photographer… Gerald Ford…
Here’s a link to all five parts of this Q & A cafe (Nathan’s) interview, which aired Saturday on NewsChannel 8
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Q+%26+A++David+Hume+Kennerly&search_type=
Apr 04
» Eddie Adams Workshop - Deadline May 2
The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top professionals in photojournalism, along with 100 carefully selected students. The Workshop’s purpose is to create a forum in which an exchange of ideas, techniques, and philosophies can be shared between both established members and newcomers of the profession of picture journalism. The Workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios.
Apr 03
STRYKER'S AMERICA: Larry Levin & Justin Schauble
Stryker’s America, a new documentary by Laurence Levin and Justin Schauble, is the featured, cover selection on the 2008 Films for the Humanities & Sciences Spring Catalog (www.films.com).
Stryker’s America creatively weaves the tale of a small “New Deal” program within the Department of Agriculture as it single-handedly recorded the iconic images of the national tragedy today known as “The Great Depression.” Roy Emerson Stryker was the unlikely leader of the History Division of the depression era FSA. Not a photographer himself, Stryker recruited and directed a passionate and diverse group of photographers who traveled America and documented the ongoing economic tragedy.
Stryker was charged with providing dramatic and hard-hitting photographic evidence which illustrated the level of extreme suffering then being experienced to the U.S. populace and to Congress. Stryker’s product exceeded his challenge, kick-started the careers of some of the 20th Century’s most celebrated photographers, and re-defined documentary photography as we know it today. The images from this collection include, Dorothea Lange”s “Migrant Mother,” Arthur Rothstein’s “Dust Bowl” and Gordon Park’s “American Gothic.”
Interviews, archival footage, and still photographs tell how one man’s passion changed the lives of thousands. Featured are interviews with Beverly Brannan, Photography Curator, Library of Congress, Alan Fern, retired Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and Peter Kuznick, American University History Professor.
“Brilliant documentary filmmaking,” said Frank Van Riper of the Washington Post. “Levin and Schauble offer a warts-and-all look at Stryker and his cadre of young photographers… and at a government program (begun as propaganda) blossomed… into an honest look at America between the two World Wars.”
Films for the Humanities & Sciences is the nation’s leading distributor of educational media to libraries and higher education. Julian Chiabella, FHS Acquisitions Manager describes “Stryker’s America as illuminating a fascinating period of American history. It is a wonderful supplement to history, photography and government class curriculums.”
Stryker’s America is available exclusively from Films for the Humanities on their website. You can see a QuickTime preview of the film online at
Apr 02
» The Report (March 2008)
Download the newest edition of the WHNPA newsletter The Report — featuring the winners of this year’s The Eyes of History™ contest and the Student Photographer of the Year contest.
Apr 01