The Photo/Visual Room
Photo by Mel Melcon/The Los Angeles Times
The Dith Pran Photo ShootOut is a photo competition held at AAJA's annual national convention to encourage promising young people who are studying and practicing photojournalism. This year's theme will be "Hollyweird." The Photo ShootOut was started in 2000 to honor Dith, who risked his life in Cambodia during the holocaust by the Khmer Rouge to help journalists tell the story of the atrocities in his home country. The name of the winner of the Photo ShootOut is engraved on a perpetual trophy, which will be presented at the Gala Banquet on Saturday, August 7, 2010, and permanently housed at AAJA's National Office. Over $1,000 in other photography prizes. AAJA invites additional contributions to a new fund developed in memory of Dith, who passed away in 2008. For more information about this fund contact AAJA's National Office at 415.346.2051 or national@aaja.org
For more information about the Photo Shootout contact psakuma@aol.com
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4
PHOTOGRAPHY MEETING
1 TO 4:30 PM | RUNYON/LAUREL, MEZZANINE
PRESENTERS: PAUL SAKUMA, ASSOCIATED PRESS; JAMES YEE, FREELANCE; CORKY LEE, FREELANCE; KEN KWOK, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES; EUGENE TANNER, FREELANCE
Will discuss rules for the PhotoShootOut and the MultimediaShootOut. Planning meeting for the conventions in Los Angeles and Detroit. Help putting together frames for the Silent Photography Auction.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5
MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP FOR THE VISUAL JOURNALIST
10 AM TO 4:45 PM | RUNYON/LAUREL, MEZZANINE
PRESENTERS: SACHI CUNNINGHAM, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES; BRIAN CHAN, THE LOS ANGLES TIMES; MYUNG CHUN, THE LOS ANGLES TIMES; ALBERT LEE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
All-day workshop for the visual journalist training for Multimedia. This will be a hands-on interactive workshop and not a lecture for the visual photographer from those who are starting out in multimedia to those who do it daily looking to learn more skills. Topics including FCP, shooting video from DSLR cameras, Soundslides, video editing, lighting and sound techniques. Will have some loaner audio recorders from Olympus. Attendees should bring video camera, DSLR and laptop with FCP installed.
PHOTO LUNCH
12 PM | JOHNNIE ROCKETS
Pay on your own. Located in mall area next to hotel.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
LIVE STUDENT PHOTO CRITIQUES
10 AM TO 2 PM | RUNYON/LAUREL, MEZZANINE
PRESENTERS: KII SATO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; NICK UT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. OTHERS TBA
Student photographers will have their portfolio and resume looked over LIVE by professional photographers and photo editors to help them with their future careers as photojournalists.
FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHY PANEL
2:30 PM TO 3:30 PM | RUNYON/LAUREL, MEZZANINE
PRESENTERS: PETE DASILVA, FREELANCE; RINGO CHIU, FREELANCE; DON FERIA, FREELANCE; CORKY LEE, FREELANCE; LIANNE MILTON, FREELANCE; EUGENE TANNER, FREELANCE
Photographers will talk discuss freelance photography.
DEADLINE FOR THE PHOTOSHOOTOUT AND MULTIMEDIA SHOOTOUT
3 PM | RUNYON/LAUREL, MEZZANINE
COORDINATORS: KEN KWOK, PHOTOGRAPHER, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES; EUGENE TANNER, FREELANCE
Entry deadline for over $2,000 in prizes. Winners will be announced at the Gala Scholarship & Awards Banquet on Saturday, August 7.
PHOTOGRAPHING THE VANCOUVER OLYMPICS & HAITI EARTHQUAKE
3:45 PM TO 4:45 PM | RUNYON/LAUREL, MEZZANINE
STAN HONDA, AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE; NHAT MEYER, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS; DON FERIA, FREELANCE; JAE C. HONG, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photographers will talk about their experiences of photographing the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and earthquake in Haiti.
PHOTOGRAPHY DINNER
8:30 PM
MANNA KOREAN BBQ BUFFET | 3377 W. OLYMPIC BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90019
(CROSS STREET SOUTH GRAMERCY DRIVE), 323.733.8516
COORDINATOR: JAMES YEE, FREELANCE (PLEASE RSVP IN ADVANCE TO FOTOGUYF16@MAC.COM OR 317-640-1873)
Endless servings of premium pork rib, black pork belly, boneless marinated short ribs,
fresh brisket pork, chicken bulgogi. Includes soft drinks.
Cost: $30 for professionals (cost includes paying for students); Free for photo students.
Transportation: Taxi or carpool from hotel. Meet: Renaissance Hotel lobby, 8:15 p.m. Location 10 minutes from hotel.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7
PHOTOGRAPHY BUFFET LUNCH
11 AM TO 1 PM | OIWAKE JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 122 JAPANESE VILLAGE PLAZA MALL
COORDINATOR: JAMES YEE, FREELANCE (PLEASE RSVP IN ADVANCE TO FOTOGUYF16@MAC.COM OR 317-640-1873)
Photographers will have lunch before a talk and tour at the Japanese American National Museum by Stan Honda, Agence France Presse photographer.
Cost: $20 for professionals (cost includes paying for photo students); Free for photo students.
Transportation: Light rail Red Line to the Gold Line to Little Tokyo. Cost $5 round trip.
Timetable: 30-minute train and two-minute walk; Taxi Cost: $30; Carpool from hotel lobby at 10:30 a.m. Timetable: 20 minutes.
PHOTO EXHIBIT/TOUR
2 PM | JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM | 369 EAST FIRST STREET
Agence France Presse photojournalist Stan Honda will lead a photographic tour of his project, "Moving Walls", of the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, internment camp at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. Honda will also talk and show pictures in a program at the museum about the 1994 recovery of barracks near the site of the camp where Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. He will speak about his documentation of the project and his perspective as a Sansei whose parents were interned in Arizona. Museum volunteers, several who were also interned during the war, will also speak about their experience in Wyoming and at the reconstruction of the barracks at the museum.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 7
Check with Photo/Visual Room coordinator for details.
(Last updated 7/30/10)
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