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Dear AAJA photojournalists, Thank you to all of you who donated prints for the successful AAJA auctions in San Francisco and Sacramento. Over $10,000 was raised for student scholarships. Paul Sakuma psakuma@aol.com www.aajaphoto.org

Mike will be giving 3 workshops in 3 of his favorite cities; Istanbul, Bangkok, and Singapore, where his career started. They are all related to his experience shooting 30 years for National Geographic. For a preview, please read Michael Freeman’s extensive interview with Mike at http://thefreemanview.com/featured_photographer/mike-yamashita/ Mike’s schedule of workshops here

Dear AAJA Photographers, Deadline for print auction for the San Francisco AAJA Chapter is Friday, Sept. 10. Deadline for Asian American photo students interested in attending (for free) San Francisco AAJA’s East West Clicks is Friday, Sept. 10. Deadline for print auction for the Sacramento AAJA’s PhotoShowcase is Monday, Sept. 27. Deadline for Asian American [...]

Dear AAJA student photographers, Any Asian American photojournalism student interested in attending for “free” either the San Francisco AAJA’s East West Clicks on Saturday, Sept. 18 or the Sacramento AAJA’s PhotoShowcase on Monday, Oct. 4, please contact me. These two photography fund-raising events are all about helping out Asian American student photojournalists. Both chapters hope [...]

Dear AAJA photographers, For those who have or plan to donate your photo(s) to the San Francisco Chapter scholarships for photojournalists, here is an invitation to the fund-raising event. Info on how to donate prints: www.aajaphoto.org WHAT: East West Clicks WHEN: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 18, 2010 WHERE: SOMArts, 934 Brannan St. in San Francisco TICKETS: [...]

Dear AAJA photographers, The Silent Auction at the AAJA National Convention was very successful. But we need more of your 11 x 14 prints for Silent Photo Auctions in San Francisco and Sacramento that will help out AAJA Chapter student scholarships. Please donate one or two prints to each of the chapters to be sold [...]

List of winners in the Annual Dith Pran Photography and Multimedia ShootOut Competition. The theme of this year’s live photography competition was “HollyWierd”. About $2,000 in prizes were awarded. The competition is in honor of New York Times photographer Dith Pran, who survived the Cambodian “Killing Fields”. The perpetual trophy and cash award was given [...]

Thanks for coming along for dinner. Was fun. Paul

Thanks for coming along for the boat ride in Long Beach Thursday.

Photography winners of the AAJA National Journalist Awards. Winners will be awarded on Saturday, August 7 at the AAJA Gala Awards Banquet. PHOTOGRAPHY-UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER Lianne Milton, freelance photojournalist, “Five Years Later: A New Hope” http://www.liannemiltonphotography.com/ ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER ISSUES Vino Wong, photojournalist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Past Still A Big Part of Rising Vietnam” [...]