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Congratulations to photography winners of the AAJA National Journalism Awards. AAJA will present the awards on Friday, July 25 at the Gala Scholarship Banquet at Unity. PHOTOGRAPHY-AAPI ISSUES Chiaki Kawajiri, photojournalist, The Baltimore Sun, Scars of the Heart PHOTOGRAPHY-UNLIMITED SUBJECT MATTER Kuni Takahashi, staff photographer, Chicago Tribune, Hidden Poverty in Illinois

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 [...]

Some 2007 Miami convention photos by Lawrence Liang. Click on the sample above to go the gallery page.

Dear photo conventioneers, I hope you enjoyed Miami as much as I did. If you have photos you want to share on the AAJAphoto.org web site, please email to: baron@mediabaron.com If you have photos you think AAJA national office could use for future use, please mail on CD to: AAJA – Janice Lee 1182 Market [...]

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” — [...]

Dear AAJA photographers, photo editors and photo students, Another successful and fun national AAJA convention is over. Here are some photography highlights of the convention in Miami. Hopefully we will see you at Unity next year in Chicago. Almost $5,000 was raised in the Silent Photo Auction. National photo award winners were Therese Tran, of [...]

Michael on the Island Queen Cruise ready to explore Biscayne Bay. Not quite his usual exotic adventure. Cheryl works to get the bunny ears on Michael. Our fearless leader Paul on the cruise. No attempts at conch shell blowing this year. The Miami skyline as most vessels were motoring a bit faster than us. Kuni [...]

Students were in the hot-seat with live photo critiques during the opening of the Friday photo session. Photographers were able to talk to photo editors during the convention about their images. Michael, right, talks to photographers after giving his presentation on his project for National Geographic of world explorer Zheng He. Therese, center, goes over [...]

Andrew and Dai give their multimedia sessions Thursday at the AAJA convention. Video, slideshows, hybrid packages. Lots of great information. You can find some of the great information they talked about on New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/ San Jose Mercury News – http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com News University – http://www.newsu.org Sound Dogs royalty free music – http://www.sounddogs.com Netvibes [...]

Cheryl and Eugene in the photo room during auction photo set-up. Prints framed for the photo auciton. AAJA members take a tour of the Knight Concert Hall in Miami before the opening reception. Eugene shoots the concert hall Taiko drummers open the AAJA convention. The opening night crowd at the Carnival Center for the Performing [...]