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Volume 5 | Issue 3 | October 2010

Greetings from the Board

The PWP season has begun and we have already had two exciting programs at our monthly meetings. Anja Hitzenberger was our September speaker who shared her portraiture work with us and L2 gave us great insights into the history of image presentation and a wonderful overview of some of the current ways we have available for mounting, framing and preserving our photographs.

Membership this year is on the rise – we now are 192 women strong and welcome all of our new members. There are 37 of you that signed up since January (29 since July). Join us in working towards making this the best year yet for PWP.

The Board

35th ANNIVERSARY PWP INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL
A HUGE SUCCESS!!!!

PWP’s first call for entry open to both members and non-members has been an overwhelming success.  It not only  raised money for the organization through entry fees, but also succeeded in building world wide awareness of the PWP brand.  Women from all across the United States submitted their images, as did women from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, France,  Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey.  Hundreds of people have visited our website and we have at least twelve new members as a result of the call. Welcome to PWP!

Jurors Elinor Carucci and Stephen Perloff are hard at work selecting images for the group and online exhibitions. The twelve cash award-winning images will be featured in the next issue of PWP’s IMPRINTS magazine, to be published in January. Good Luck to all!

The next open call, CONTRASTS, will begin shortly, so keep an eye out for the announcement.

EXHIBITIONS

THE ART OF COMMERCE

Art of Commerce
October 4 – October 29, 2010
Manhattan Borough President Gallery
1 Centre Street
19th Floor
New York, New York 10007
212-669-8300

PWP (Professional Women Photographers) and Scott M. Stringer, Office of Manhattan Borough President Gallery present an exhibition of photography that views commerce in ways that are evocative, unusual and often humorous.  Members of PWP, an organization of nearly 200 photojournalists, fine arts and commercial photographers, explore their personal visions of commerce with artistry, insight and fresh points of view.  Buyers and sellers, goods and services, motivations and emotions all play their roles in images illustrating the art and drama of commerce.

The exhibition will be on view to the public from October 4 through October 29, 2010.  Hours are Monday through Friday from 10 AM to 4 PM.

Members Call For Entry:

NEW VISIONS

December 6th, 2010 – January 15th, 2011
Reception: December 9, 2010, 6-8 pm
Durst Organization Show Walls Gallery
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York NY 10036
Application Deadline: October 31, 2010

Details: The Durst Organization is pleased to host an exhibition of Professional Women Photographers’ best work. Here’s an opportunity to exhibit your latest techniques and experimental photos. Send us your new and most exciting images. Provoke discussion and invite questions and speculation about how you created your new work. All genres and mediums are welcome.

The Durst Organization’s Show Walls Gallery, right next to ICP, is a great space with exposure to a wide audience. A December exhibit at the Durst Organization will also provide great exposure to the show from the many tourists and business people in town for the holidays. Join fellow PWP members in showing your most creative new images during a prime exhibition month. Please only submit images that have not appeared in a previous PWP show. Send us your best work!

Open to PWP members only.  To download the call, log in to your account on pwponline.org and click here: pwponline.org/calls/individual.php?which=2010-12-06-1

**The Exhibitions Committee has a number of future projects in the works and always welcomes PWP member volunteers. It is a great way to learn about jurying and curating as well as forging great friendships within the organization. Contact Katie Mantell if you are interested at exhibitions@pwponline.org

NOVEMBER MONTHLY MEETING

11/3/2010

Church of St. Paul the Apostle
405 West 59th Street
Second Floor

New York NY 10019
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Speaker: Lauren Fleishman

Curtain Raiser: Ruth Gitto

Lauren Fleishman was born and raised in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. She attended the School of Visual Arts with a Vice Presidential Academic Scholarship. In 2000, she was awarded a full scholarship to study at the prestigious Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2003, Lauren was named one of Photo District News’ 30 young photographers to watch. Lauren’s clients include Esquire, The Fader, Microsoft and Time Magazine. Lauren was included in American Photography for four consecutive years and was an award recipient in the 2007 PDN Annual for her Time magazine work entitled Sixteen Candles. She was awarded a show at the main branch of The Brooklyn Public Library for her personal project on love and aging and is a 2010 Camera Club Residency recipient. To view samples of her work please go to: www.LaurenFleishman.com

CUBA TRIP UPDATE

At our September monthly membership meeting, PWP member Joan Tedeschi announced that there will be two PWP photography trips to Cuba in October 2011. Cuban cultural expert Miriam Castillo is developing the trip with the help of photographer Romero Fernandez, who will accompany both tours.

The first tour is tentatively scheduled for October 9th -16th, and the second tour is tentatively scheduled for October 30th – November 6th. We expect each group to accommodate 20 people and reservations, when announced, will be on a first-come, first served basis. Sign up will initially be limited to PWP members and then opened up to friends and family.

PLEASE NOTE: RESERVATIONS ARE NOT BEING ACCEPTED AT THIS TIME. We anticipate Miriam will have the itinerary and final pricing worked out by January 1st, at which time we will send out an announcement and begin accepting deposit checks, as stated above, on a first come, first served basis.

WEB

PWP AT A GLANCE

Check out the PWP Website for our new “PWP AT A GLANCE.” Catherine Kirkpatrick has put together a wonderful vehicle for telling the world about our organization.

From www.pwponline.org
Click on the drop down menu ABOUT PWP
Click on PWP AT A GLANCE

And when you tell people about the organization refer them to PWP AT A GLANCE for a great overview of all that we do.

RECORD BREAKING WEBSITE VISITS

Our Development and outreach activities (including the 35th Anniversary Open Call) are paying off handsomely in terms of web exposure. We had over 4500 hits on the PWP website in September 2010 – a 50% increase over the same period in 2009. This means an amazing number of new people interested in PWP and women in photography are seeing our members’ work.

If you haven’t uploaded your images and created a profile yet, don’t put it off any longer. The PWP website is a huge benefit of membership – especially for those who use it to promote their images and photography websites. Take advantage of the individual web address you get and the keyword search criteria to add another dimension to how you promote your work.

MEMBER TO MEMBER WORKSHOPS

Last year PWP began offering Member to Member workshops again. It is a wonderful opportunity for our members to share/teach a specific skill to others in PWP. These are member taught and stand apart from the educational opportunities/classes/seminars PWP members get through Barbara Nelson.

If there is a photography related process or skill you are proficient in and would be willing to share, contact Ruth Gitto (rkgitto@yahoo.com) our Programs Director to organize a session. It could be an evening or a weekend day and would be one or two hours at most.

Those we have done in the past have been a lot of fun, and it’s a great way to get to better know fellow members in a small group.

REMINDER – RSVP FOR NEW MEMBER VOLUNTEER RECEPTION

Each year PWP welcomes it’s new members and honors those that step up to volunteer at a wonderful reception. Attendance is by invitation and we hold it at a west side restaurant with drinks and edibles. This is a reminder to those that received invitations from Sandy our Volunteer Director to RSVP ASAP.

This is a great evening and opportunity to welcome our new members and for them to meet those that make our organization work.