San Francisco Press Photographers Association

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SFBAPPA will be posting links of member's personal web site on the SFBAPPA web site If you are paid member of SFBAPPA, you can share your web site from the SFBAPPA web site.

Some basic rules:
1. You be a paid member of SFBAPPA either professional, student or associate.
2. You must have full control of your web site.
3. No company web site.
4. Web site about your photography. Not your personal photo album.
5. Site must be active or it will be taken down immediately. There will be no notification of termination.
6. To let us know about your web site. Email us with your web site address. Or if you would like your link terminated, please email SFBAPPA.
7. No links of your photography from another site.
8. No cost for members.

SFBAPPA-Membership Renewal Deadline March 31st.

If you are a 2006 member of SFBAPPA, the deadline for renewing your membership is March 31, or you will be dropped from the SFBAPPA membership rolls and from the SFBAPPA Listserv.

You can now pay with a credit card using PayPal:

SFBAPPA aims to bring together professional and student press photographers with similar interests in career enrichment, education and social interaction. Here are some of the activities that we are planning and additional benefits of membership in SFBAPPA:

-Annual Awards Banquet
-Annual Digital Camera & Photoshop Workshop
-Annual Golf Tournament
-Annual Bowling Tournament
-Annual News Photo Contest
-Annual News Video Contest
-Annual Video Workshop
-Annual Wildland Fire Workshop
-Monthly Digital Clip Contest
-Monthly PhotoNight speakers series
-Listserv on current local photojournalism news and announcements
-Free membership for retired members
-Mentor program for students
-Press parking identification card
-Web Site: www.sfbappa.org
-Job/Internship listings
-Fund raising for photographers in need.

All this for only $30 per year ($20 per year for students)

Please make check payable to “SFBAPPA”
Please use this form and mail your check.

SFBAPPA
929 B Street
Petaluma, CA 94952

You are invited to SFBAPPA's April PhotoNight with SFBAPPA's Newspaper Photographer of the Year Conner Jay (Salinas Californian) and Student Photographer of the Year Jana Asenbrennerova (San Francisco State University) at Carte Blanche gallery in San Francisco on Thursday April 12. They will share their winning work from 2011. Jana will have her prints up at the the gallery from her 'Shipbreakers of Chittagong" story.

There will be other award-winning speakers - to be announced.

Conner Jay bio:
Conner Jay, staff photographer and multimedia journalist at the Salinas Californian, won SFBAPPA's Newspaper Photographer of the Year for his work in 2011. He is Vice President of SFBAPPA/Multimedia and the Monthly Digital Clip Contest Chairman. He started in photography after hijacking his father's two Nikon FM2 cameras. The two sturdy SLRs gave him license to explore different cultures while growing up in the Middle East and Europe. It was an experience that he never wants to let go of. His pursuits through photojournalism since have led him to explore HIV/AIDS in northern Thailand, hunt Humboldt squid in the Monterey Bay and witness the pervasive nature of gangs in small towns. He also shot a portrait of someone from Salinas who went to the Olympics. They did not actually compete in the Olympics, but they did go to watch the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With the constant evolution of the media and the platforms we use, Conner believes the principles of storytelling remain the same. Whether it is the Washington Post or The Salinas Californian, metropolitan New York or Soledad, California, he believes the work at each level is just as important. Conner recently accepted a job the Fairfield Daily Republic to work alongside their photo staff, and will be relocating the East Bay to further pursue his career as a visual journalist.

Jana Asenbrennerova bio:
Jana Asenbrennerova, student at San Francisco State University, won SFBAPPA's Student Photographer of the Year's Luci S. Houston Memorial Award for her work in 2011. She won last year as the SFBAPPA's Greg Robinson Memorial Student Photographer of the Year Award. Jana (pronounced Yana) graduated in May 2011. She has been in school for nine years straight. She is finally enjoying her time off. She is focusing on work and trying to get her freelance business going. She is building up current and future contacts throughout the world. She went to Shanghai in October for an award ceremony to pick up a Gold Award she received from the China International Press Photography contest for her "Eye Bank" story last year. She became the "Emerging Talent" for Getty Reportage in September 2011. She syndicates some of her work to Redux Agency for publications worldwide. Her interest in documentary photography started four years ago She has been inspired by Walter Astrada, a international photographer from Spain.

Where: Carte Blanche gallery
Address: 973 Valencia Street, San Francisco, California 94110 (near 21th Street)
Gallery phone: (415) 821-1055
Gallery info: http://www.gallerycarteblanche.com/
When: Thursday, April 12
Photonite Time: 7 p.m.
Parking: street parking
Cost: free but bring something to share potluck style
RSVP: none

SFBAPPA PhotoNight is a casual get together. It's a pot luck - so please bring something to share to eat. SFBAPPA will supply drinks and sometimes additional food. No alcohol for any students under 21.

More info,
Bryce Yukio Adolphson
SFBAPPA PhotoNight Director
bya@bryceyukioadolphson.com
(415) 598-8942

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