Call for prints for National and SF Bay Scholarships

Dear AAJA photographers,

Need your 11×14 photos to help fund national and San Francisco Bay Area photography scholarships. Need just two 11×14 prints to national and two 11×14 prints for SF. All proceeds go directly into photography scholarships. Money from your one 11×14 can go from about $50 to $500 – directly into the pocket of Asian American student photojournalist.

(See below on how money raised last year helped AAJA photo student scholarship)

Both deadlines: June 6

National:
Expedi Printing
ATTN: Corky Lee
1300 Metropolitian Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11237

San Francisco AAJA Chapter:
Oanh Ha
1585 Schallenberger Road
San Jose, CA 95131

More info,
www.aajaphoto.org
Facebook: aaja photo
Twitter: @aajaphoto

HOWARD HSU – Howard is the recipient of the Willie Kee (SF Bay Area photographer) Memorial Scholarship, which honors the best in broadcast journalism, video editting and photojournalism. Howard graduates from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism this year. He plans to continue work on a photography essay on how gentrification in Oakland affects Chinatown and on an international project on the exotic wildlife trade in Southeast Asia and China. His work on the exotic wildlife trade in Burma was published on the PBS Frontline/World website. His scholarship is $2,000.

Thanks for helping out future photojournalists

Paul Sakuma
psakuma@aol.com

Nominations sought for AAJA Awards in Photography, Online and TV

Dear AAJA Photographers,
You are invited to submit nominations for the Asian American Journalists Association National Journalism Awards in Photography, Online and Television. There are two categories: Unlimited subject material. Also Asian American Pacific Islander subject material.
 
Entries are FREE for current 2009 AAJA members and $100 per entry for non-members. Winners will be notified in advance of the AAJA National Convention held August 12-15, 2009 in Boston, MA. Awards will be presented at the AAJA Gala Scholarship and Awards Banquet on Saturday, August 15 at the Boston Seaport Hotel. The entrant need not be present to win.
 
 
 
All entries must be received by April 24, 2009.
 
More info,
Albert Lee
Professional Programs Coordinator
Asian American Journalists Association
AlbertL@aaja.org
www.aaja.org
 
Early registration (for professionals $225) deadline is Friday, April 17. After that date, registration (for professionals $300) will be $75 more. Then after June 19, registration (for professionals $375) will be $75 more.
 
Paul Sakuma
AAJA Photo
facebook: aaja photo

Early registration deadline for Boston convention is April 17

Dear AAJA Photographers,

If you are attending the AAJA National Convention in Boston this August, the early registration deadline is April 17.

Pre-registration is $225 and $100 for students.

More info on photography/multimedia workshops at the convention: www.aajaphoto.org or on Facebook: AAJA Photo

After April 17, registration is $300 and $150 for students.

Convention registration: http://www.aaja.org/programs/convention2009boston/registration

more info,
Paul Sakuma
AAJA Photo
psakuma@aol.com

AAJA photogs 2009 Boston convention schedule

AAJA photographers/photo editors/photo students will have our own photo room at the AAJA National Convention in Boston in August:

Wednesday:
Photo planner meeting 1pm to 4pm (moderator Paul Sakuma/Corky Lee)
PhotoShootOut meeting 1pm to 4pm.

Thursday:
Job Fair 9am to 6pm
All-day Multimedia Workshop for the Visual Journalist (note: this is different than the OnLine or Multimedia group sessions. This is geared to still photographers only). (Dai Sugano moderator)
Would include:
Training on Final Cut Express for the Web Part I (Dai Sugano moderator)
Training on Soundslides for the Web (Nhat Meyer moderator)
Training on Video for the Web (Sachiko Cunningham moderator)
All day photo exhibit in room. (Corky Lee, Karen moderator)
Photography Dinner (James Yee, Susan Choi, Matt Lee moderator)

Friday:
Jobs Fair – 9am to 6pm
Olympic Photography (Nhat Meyer moderator)
Election Photography (Stan Honda moderator)
All day photo exhibit in room (Corky Lee moderator)
Training on Final Cut Express for the Web Part II (Dai Sugano moderator)
Photography Auction (Corky Lee, Karen moderator) – reception at 5:30pm to 8:30pm
PhotoshootOut deadline

Saturday:
Live Student Critiques (Matt Lee moderator)
Photography Tour of Boston (Susan Choi, James Yee, Matt Lee moderator)
Photography Luncheon (Susan Choi, James Yee, Matt Lee moderator)
7pm to 9pm Gala Banquet

Convention News Project

Just as newsrooms across the country are adjusting to operate with smaller staffing and new technology, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) has redesigned its convention project to simulate the convergence newsroom of today. This innovative program will provide multimedia training opportunities to students and professionals at the 2009 AAJA National Convention.

AAJA’s National Convention will be held Aug. 12-15, 2009 at the Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. The Convention News Project team arrives Aug. 10 and departs Aug. 16.

Applications will be made available in January, as AAJA conducts national outreach to identify 12 students and 12 professionals. They will work as a team over seven days on-site to cover the convention this summer as “mojo” (mobile journalism) reporters in audio and video, web/print designers, photographers, multimedia producers, and copy editors.

From the applications, 20 of the most promising students will be selected as finalists and given the opportunity for building skills and developing their portfolios. They will participate in pre-convention training that will include interactive online courses in interviewing, multimedia, ethics, and an option of visual and audio techniques. They will also be given pre-convention assignments covering issues related to the journalism industry today and/or the Asian American/Pacific Islander community. Of those students, 12 will be selected to cover convention, with travel and hotel accommodations provided.

Professionals are being selected based on their ability to mentor and teach, as well as their experience in news editing, production and design. For some, this will also be an opportunity for direct experience with mojo reporting.

AAJA’s Convention News Project team will cover the latest news about journalists, the state and future of the industry, and how the newsroom changes affect the community. Their works will be featured and updated around the clock on the convention website and in magazine-style publications to be distributed to convention attendees.

The 2009 Convention News Project director is Marian Liu, a Seattle Times reporter who practices mobile journalism.

For more information about sponsoring AAJA’s Convention News Project, contact Janice Lee, AAJA deputy executive director, atJaniceL@aaja.org. For more information about national opportunities for students, contact Nao Vang, AAJA student programs coordinator, at programs@aaja.org.

Please download and complete application. Click here(http://www.aaja.org/programs/for_students/journalism_trainings/)

Thank you for your time and commitment to diversity in our newsrooms and in news coverage.

Regards,
Nao Vang
Student Programs Coordinator
Asian American Journalists Association
415-346-2051 x102

Unity 2008 Survey

Dear AAJA Visual Journalists,
 
During the Unity 2008 Chicago conference, the members of the Visual Task Force (VTF), comprised of visual journalists from all four organizations, met to discuss the future of all four individual conferences. It was decided that in order for each of the four organizations to have the programming and workshops needed to forge into journalism’s new path, we would need to combine our efforts and expertise to make each of the four conferences better.
 
To aid in the effort to bring relevant and necessary training to AAJA’s conference in Boston from August 12-15, we need to know what are the needs and desires of our membership. Therefore, we have put together a survey to help us focus our programming and planning.
 
Please help the VTF committee plan for a fantastic 2009 conference season by filling out this survey so I can take the information to the next VTF meeting in September, where it will be presented to the committee and the process will begin to make the needs and desires of our membership a reality.
 
Local Boston photographers Susan Choi, Matt Lee and Michael Quan are working on local ideas for the VTF. Corky Lee is working on the Photo Exhibit and Photo Silent Auction. Dai Sugano is working on multimedia ideas. I’m working on getting thousands of dollars in prizes for the Photo/Multimedia ShootOut. Michelle Le is working on the Student Project. Baron Sekiya is working on web site info. James Yee and Marilynn Yee are working on party ideas. 
 
If you are interested in helping out, let me know.  Thank you for your feedback,
 
Paul Sakuma
Photographer, Associated Press
AAJA Visual Task Force chair
psakuma@aol.com
www.aajaphoto.org
www.unityphoto.org
 
 
Survey:
 
Mark 1-5 for your interests in these areas of training/programming? One is the least amount of interest, five is the most interested.
 
Photojournalism
1-2-3-4-5
 
Multimedia (slide shows w/audio)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Video training (Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Audio training (Audacity, Garage Band, etc.)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Web design (Dream weaver, InDesign, etc.)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Portfolio critiques (personal one-on-one and live critiques)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Guest speakers (What speakers/topics would you like to hear?)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Photography/Multimedia ShootOut
1-2-3-4-5
 
Social event (dinner, dim sum, boat ride, etc.)
1-2-3-4-5
 
Photo gallery/photo auction
1-2-3-4-5
 
What area of journalism do you work/go to school in? (choose one)
Reporter
Radio
Photo
Web
TV
 
Do you feel a need to know any or all of the above skills?
Yes/no
Does your place of work provide training opportunities? 
Yes/no
 
If not, would the AAJA conference be the only opportunity you would have for training?
Yes/no
 
Do you plan to attend the AAJA convention from August 12-15 in Boston?
Yes/No
 
Would any of the above programming being available affect your decision to attend the conference?
No
Yes
I would come anyhow
I won’t come anyhow
 
Would you volunteer for the Visual Task Force?
At the conference
During the planning
In a specific way? (web help, speaking, in another way?)
 
If you have specific feedback or suggestions, we would like to hear them.
 
Please email me your survey.  Put “VTF Boston” in the subject line. You can also mail in survey.
 
Paul Sakuma
Associated Press Photographer
AAJA Photo
psakuma@aol.com
www.aajaphoto.org
www.unityphoto.org
3486 Murdoch Ct.
Palo Alto, CA 94306

NY Times photographer, AAJA member Dith Pran, dies

Dear AAJA photographers,

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.

Dith died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer, according to Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Dith had been diagnosed almost three months ago.

Dith was working as an interpreter and assistant for Schanberg in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, when the Vietnam War reached its chaotic end in April 1975 and both countries were taken over by Communist forces.

Schanberg helped Dith’s family get out but was forced to leave his friend behind after the capital fell; they were not reunited until Dith escaped four and a half years later. Eventually, Dith resettled in the United States and went to work as a photographer for the Times.

It was Dith himself who coined the term “killing fields” for the horrifying clusters of corpses and skeletal remains of victims he encountered on his desperate journey to freedom.

The regime of Pol Pot, bent on turning Cambodia back into a strictly agrarian society, and his Communist zealots were blamed for the deaths of nearly 2 million of Cambodia’s 7 million people.

“That was the phrase he used from the very first day, during our wondrous reunion in the refugee camp,” Schanberg said later.

With thousands being executed simply for manifesting signs of intellect or Western influence, even wearing glasses or wristwatches, Dith survived by masquerading as an uneducated peasant, toiling in the fields and subsisting on as little as a mouthful of rice a day, and whatever small animals he could catch.

After Dith moved to the U.S., he became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and founded the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project, dedicated to educating people on the history of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Schanberg described Dith’s ordeal and salvation in a 1980 magazine article titled “The Death and Life of Dith Pran.” Schanberg’s reporting from Phnom Penh had earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1976.

Later a book, the magazine article became the basis for “The Killing Fields,” the highly successful 1984 British film starring Sam Waterston as the Times correspondent and Haing S. Ngor, another Cambodian escapee from the Khmer Rouge, as Dith Pran.

The film won three Oscars, including the best supporting actor award to Ngor.

“Pran was a true reporter, a fighter for the truth and for his people,” Schanberg said. “When cancer struck, he fought for his life again. And he did it with the same Buddhist calm and courage and positive spirit that made my brother so special.”

Dith spoke of his illness in a March interview with The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., saying he was determined to fight against the odds and urging others to get tested for cancer.

“I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body,” he said. “It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.”

Dith Pran was born Sept. 27, 1942 at Siem Reap, site of the famed 12th century ruins of Angkor Wat. Educated in French and English, he worked as an interpreter for U.S. officials in Phnom Penh. As with many Asians, the family name, Dith, came first, but he was known by his given name, Pran.

After Cambodia’s leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, broke off relations with the United States in 1965, Dith worked at other jobs. When Sihanouk was deposed in a 1970 coup and Cambodian troops went to war with the Khmer Rouge, Dith returned to Phnom Penh and worked as an interpreter for Times reporters.

In 1972, he and Schanberg, then newly arrived, were the first journalists to discover the devastation of a U.S. bombing attack on Neak Leung, a vital river crossing on the highway linking Phnom Penh with eastern Cambodia.

Dith recalled in a 2003 article for the Times what it was like to watch U.S. planes attacking enemy targets.

“If you didn’t think about the danger, it looked like a performance,” he said. “It was beautiful, like fireworks. War is beautiful if you don’t get killed. But because you know it’s going to kill, it’s no longer beautiful.”

After Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia in 1979 and seized control of territory, Dith escaped from a commune near Siem Reap and trekked 40 miles, dodging both Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge forces, to reach a border refugee camp in Thailand.

From the Thai camp he sent a message to Schanberg, who rushed from the United States for an emotional reunion with the trusted friend he felt he had abandoned four years earlier.

“I had searched for four years for any scrap of information about Pran,” Schanberg said. “I was losing hope. His emergence in October 1979 felt like an actual miracle for me. It restored my life.”

After Dith moved to the U.S., the Times hired him and put him in the photo department as a trainee. The veteran staffers “took him under their wing and taught him how to survive on the streets of New York as a photographer, how to see things,” said Times photographer Marilynn K. Yee.

Yee recalled an incident early in Dith’s new career as a photojournalist when, after working the 4 p.m. to midnight shift, he was robbed at gunpoint of all his camera equipment at the back door of his apartment.

“He survived everything in Cambodia and he survived that too,” she said, adding, “He never had to work the night shift again.”

Dith spoke and wrote often about his wartime experience and remained an outspoken critic of the Khmer Rouge regime.

When Pol Pot died in 1998, Dith said he was saddened that the dictator was never held accountable for the genocide.

“The Jewish people’s search for justice did not end with the death of Hitler and the Cambodian people’s search for justice doesn’t end with Pol Pot,” he said.

Dith’s survivors include his companion, Bette Parslow; his former wife, Meoun Ser Dith; a sister, Samproeuth Dith Nop; sons Titony, Titonath and Titonel; daughter Hemkarey Dith Tan; six grandchildren including a boy named Sydney; and two step-grandchildren.

Dith’s three brothers were killed by the Khmer Rouge.

The AAJA Dith Pran PhotoShootOut Award was established in 2000. The first place winner of this photography competition has his/her name inscribed on the national Dith Pran Trophy, named in honor of Dith.

The next photo contest will take place at the Boston convention August 12-15, 2009.

Dith Pran PhotoShootOut Award winners:

2007 Michelle Le
2006 Tue Nam Ton
2005 Sunghyun Jun
2003 Chihiro Koga
2002 Lance Cheung
2001 Paul Kuroda
2000 Dennis Oda

Before Dith died, he would like to thank everyone for all their kindnesses, cards, letters, prayers, thoughts, gift baskets, emails  and visits.

If you would like to send a condolence card, please mail to:

Dith Pran family
124 Beverly Hill Terrace  Apt. #G
Woodbridge,  NJ  07095

The family requests no flowers. Services pending.

Information from Associated Press, Asian American Journalists Association and Marilynn K. Yee, of the New York Times.

posted by,

Paul Sakuma

psakuma@aol.com

 

More Multimedia for photogs

Application forms are now available for the upcoming Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp to be held Nov. 2 – 3, 2007 in Southern California.

The Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp will be an intensive two full days combining multimedia training and sports photography. If you want to take your work to “the next level” — Internet presentations combining stills, audio and video — this workshop is for you.

Info on the Boot Camp: http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1802

Application Forms:

http://www.sportsshooter.com/pix/ssacad/ssacad-boot-camp-application.zip

2007 Miami Photo Schedule

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1

PHOTO MEETING: PhotoShootOut; Photo Silent Auction Production Meeting;
Student Photo Critiques; Unity Planning Meeting
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Photographers Room Gardenia BC

PHOTOSHOOTOUT: “MIAMI HEAT”
Those interested in competing for the annual Dith Pran Photo ShootOut Award are invited to discuss the rules of the contest for this year’s theme, “Miami Heat.” Named in honor of the photojournalist who survived the Cambodian “Killing Fields,” the perpetual trophy will be presented at the Gala Banquet on Saturday night.
Contest Start: as soon as the convention starts on Wednesday, August 1
Deadline: noon, Friday, August 3
Limit: FIVE .jpg images – any size.
Prizes: Canon digital camera; SanDisk.
Equipment: bring your own digital camera. Laptops will be available.
Coordinators will help with assignments and helping out entrants with images to be turned in by Friday’s deadline.
Turn in (maximum of five) images on any media no later than noon, Friday, August 3 deadline in Photo Room. Place caption information in “File Info” in Photoshop. Your name must be in the “File Info”. Save .jpg with your entrant’s last name only.
Moderators: Vino Wong, photographer, Atlanta Constitution Journal;
Marc J. Kawanishi, photojournalism instructor, Eastern Carolina University

PHOTO SILENT AUCTION PRODUCTION MEETING
Production meeting for photos to be included in the Silent Auction. Photographers will organize an exhibit from AAJA photographers around the country who have contributed their photographs to help raise money for Asian American college student scholarships. The photographs will be auctioned off during the Silent Auction on Saturday night.
Moderator: Corky Lee, freelance photographer in New York

UNITY PLANNING MEETING
Planning meeting for next year’s Unity in Chicago.
Moderators: Paul Sakuma, Associated Press; Stan Honda, photographer, Agence France Press; Eugene Tanner, photo editor, Orange County Register

STUDENT PHOTO CRITIQUES – ALL WEEK
Students are invited to bring their portfolios in for critiques in a casual atmosphere.
Moderators: Eugene Tanner, photo editor, The Orange County Register
Cheryl Diaz Meyer, photographer Dallas Morning News

VOICES MULTIMEDIA STUDENT PHOTO PROJECT – ALL WEEK
Multimedia photo editors: Laura Pohl, freelance photographer; Bernadette Tuazon, photo editor, Associated Press
Mentors: Al Diaz and Ronna Gradus, photographers, Miami Herald

5-7 p.m. Hyatt Regency Miami – Student Night. Open to all students.

7-9 p.m. Opening Reception at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.

THURSDAY AUGUST 2

MULTIMEDIA FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS, SESSION I: SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
10:15-11:45 a.m. Photographers Room Gardenia BC
Enhance your audio slideshows with our photo stories. Learn about equipment, software, interviewing and ambient recording, editing your audio smartly, and working with reporters on daily assignments.
Moderator: Dai Sugano, photographer/multimedia, San Jose Mercury News.
Presenters: Ben de la Cruz, video journalist, washingtonpost.com
Andrew DeVigal, multimedia editor, The New York Times

MULTIMEDIA FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS, SESSION II: VIDEO STORYTELLING
1:45-3:15 p.m., Photographers Room Gardenia BC
Newspaper photographers will learn a variety of video storytelling styles including narrated, subject-driven, and reporter-as-analyst. Also learn how to shoot HD video for print and Web and use Final Cut Pro for stills and video. Long term project with video.
Moderator: Dai Sugano, photographer/multimedia, San Jose Mercury News.
Presenters: Ben de la Cruz, video journalist, washingtonpost.com
Andrew DeVigal, multimedia editor, The New York Times.

INTRODUCTION TO FLASH
1:45-5 p.m. – Room TBA
Hands-on training in Flash, a powerful tool in today’s multimedia industry. Learn the basic tools necessary to make simple slideshows and interactive presentations during this 180-minute session. Limited to 30 participants.
Coordinator & Presenter: Belinda Long, graphics reporter, South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

MULTIMEDIA FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS, SESSION III: MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
3:30-5 p.m Photographers Room Gardenia BC
Learn about the multimedia used in the newsrooms of today and tomorrow, including using Flash, going beyond Soundslide, working with a variety of content providers and shooting with concepts.
Moderator: Dai Sugano, photographer/multimedia, San Jose Mercury News.
Presenters: Ben de la Cruz, video journalist, washingtonpost.com
Andrew DeVigal, multimedia editor, The New York Times.

THURSDAY NIGHT PHOTO DINNER
Where: Versailles Cuban Restaurant (Little Havana)
3555 SW Eighth Street
Miami, FL 33135
Restaurant phone: 305-444-0240
Time: 7pm
Cost: $25 for dinner. Choice of Roast Pork Cuban Style or Shrimp Creole dinner.
(price includes tax, tip and cost for photo student dinners. Drinks on your own.)
Photo Students: FREE
RSVP by July 31 to photographer James Yee: fotoguyf16@mac.com
Payment: check payable to “Paul Sakuma” at convention by August 2. Paul will be in photo room “Gardenia BC”.
Leaving Hyatt: Will meet in lobby at 6:30pm and share taxi to restaurant. ($20)
Maximum: 30 AAJA photo and guests.

FRIDAY AUGUST 3

LIVE PHOTO CRITIQUES FOR STUDENTS
10:15-11:45 a.m. Photographers Room Gardenia BC
Professional photographers and photo editors provide live critiques of students’ work. Students will talk about their work. A professional will share ideas for students getting into the profession. They will discuss how to strengthen a portfolio with tight editing of the best images, how to develop story ideas and talk about trends in current photojournalism. They will also address common mistakes in looking for your first job and what students can do to be best prepared for the ever-changing marketplace.
Moderators: Cheryl Diaz Meyer, photographer, The Dallas Morning News.
Eugene Tanner, photo editor, The Orange County Register.
Critiquers:
Victor Vaughan, national photo editor, Associated Press New York
Marta Lavandier, Florida photo editor, Associated Press Miami
Rolando Otero, Deputy Director of Photography, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Amy Beth Bennett, Sports Picture Editor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Taimy Alvarez, Assistant Director of Photography, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Luis Rios, Director of Photography, Miami Herald
Roman Lyskowski, Deputy Photo Director, Miami Herald
Erik Kellar, photo assignment editor, Naples Daily News
Judy Lutz, photo editor, Naples Daily News
Akili-Casundria Ramsess, Director of Photography, Orlando Sentinel
Students:
-Michelle Le, San Francisco State University
-Matthew Hashiguchi, recent graduate of Ohio State
-Cheryl Guerrero, San Francisco State
-Shaminder Dulai, San Jose State University
-Kirstina Sangsahachart, San Francisco State

MICHAEL YAMASHITA: A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHY SPECIAL
2:15-3:45 p.m. Photographers Room Gardenia BC
National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita discusses and shows photos of world explorer Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty naval commander who led seven epic voyages to more than 30 countries between 1405 and 1433 A.D.
Moderator: Stan Honda, photographer, Agence France Press
Presenter: Michael Yamashita, photographer, National Geographic

OVERSEAS PHOTOGRAPHY
4-5:30 p.m. Photographers Room Gardenia BC
Everyone wants to cover the international story, but how do you do it? Veteran photographers will discuss how to travel, what equipment to take, how to live in less than ideal conditions, how to deal with languages and local customs, how to get the story — and then, how to get your pictures back to your newspaper/magazine/wire service if there’s no Starbucks nearby.
Moderator: Stan Honda, photographer, Agence France Press
Presenters: Laura Pohl, freelance photographer
Kuni Takahashi, staff photographer, Chicago Tribune
Michael Yamashita, photographer, National Geographic

FRIDAY PHOTO DINNER
Where: Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant (South Beach)
819 Fifth Street
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Restaurant phone: 305-672-2898
When: 7pm, Friday, August 3
Cost: $30 (Price includes dinner tax, tip and cost for photo students. Drinks on your own.)
Photo Students: Free
RSVP by July 31 to photographer James Yee: fotoguyf16@mac.com
Payment: check payable to “Paul Sakuma” at convention by August 3. Paul will be in photo room “Gardenia BC”
Leaving Hyatt: Will meet in lobby at 6:15pm and share taxi to restaurant ($25)
Maximum: 30 AAJA photo and guests

SATURDAY AUGUST 4

PHOTO STUDENT CRITIQUES
9:30-10 a.m. Photographers Room Gardenia BC
Students are invited to bring their portfolios in for critiques in a casual atmosphere.
Moderator: Eugene Tanner, photo editor, The Orange County Register
Cheryl Diaz Meyer, photographer Dallas Morning News

ISLAND QUEEN CRUISE
Leaving from Hyatt: Meet in photo room “Gardenia BC” at 10am to walk 11 blocks to boat OR meet dockside at Bayside Marketplace located next to 16-foot shark statue or near Hooters restaurant and Sharper Image.
Where: Bayside Marketplace – Bayfront Park
(Similar to San Francisco’s Pier 39 shops and restaurant area)
401 Biscayne Blvd. (11 blocks from Hyatt)
When: Saturday, August 4
Time: sails at 11am; Returns at 12:30pm
Boarding: 10:45am
Boat phone: 305-379-5119
Price: $19 in advance
Maximum: 50 photo AAJAers and guests
Photo Students: Free
RSVP by August 1 to photographer James Yee: fotoguyf16@mac.com
Payment: Check payable to “Paul Sakuma” at convention by August 3.
Paul will be in photo room “Gardenia BC”.
Questions: James Yee 317-640-1873

POST CRUISE LUNCH
Lunch at Mambo restaurant – Cuban and Caribbean dishes
Bayside Marketplace – Bayfront Park. Close to where boat disembarks.
401 Biscayne Blvd. S119 (11 blocks from Hyatt)
Restaurant phone: 305-374-7417
1pm, Saturday, August 4
Price: lunches about $15. Open menu. Pay server directly.
Photo Students: FREE
RSVP deadline August 1 to James Yee: fotoguyf16@mac.com
Maximum: 50 AAJAers and guests
Questions: James Yee

SILENT AUCTION, GALA BANQUET, KARAOKE
530 p.m., Hyatt Regency Miami

More info on AAJA Photo: https://www.aajaphoto.org/
AAJA photography web master: Baron Sekiya

Paul Sakuma
Photographer, Associated Press
AAJA photography
psakuma@aol.com