## PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for September 408

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ASPP NYC EVENT. Presented by Karen Mullarkey, Director of Photography, AMERICA 24/7 and moderated by Leila Sesmero, President, New Level Consultants and ASPP Book Review Editor. Karen Mullarkey will speak to the New York Chapter about The making of Rick Smolan and David Cohen's ,"America 24/7." Monday, September 13, 2004,Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, New York City. 6pm - 9pm. Refreshments will be served. Any questions, contact aspp_ny@yahoo.com .

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THE 2004 ANNUAL PHOTOBUYER SURVEY

Photographers use our annual Survey Report to make sure they submit images

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CHANGES

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Each month we report to you, moves among, within and between: publishing houses, stock agencies, photo buyers, photo researchers, agencies, and design firms.

BOWHUNTER MAGAZINE (2245 Kohn Rd, Harrisburg, PA 17105) former contact and e-mail: Dave Canfield, Managing Editor, davec@cowles.com; current contact: Jeff Waring, Managing Editor.

SPORT FISHING MAGAZINE (460 N Orlando Ave #200, Winter Park, FL 32789) former contact, phone and e-mail: Jason Cannon, Managing Editor, 1 407 571-4574, Jason.cannon@worldpub.net; current contact, phone and e-mail: Ted Lund, Managing Editor, 1 407 571-4901, ted.lund@worldpub.net .

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES (27 Melcher St Floor 2, Boston, MA 02210) former contact: Michael Buller, Editor; current contact: Stephanie Finks, Editor.

MEN'S JOURNAL (1290 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10104) former contact, phone and e-mail: Carin Pearce, Senior Photo Editor, 1 212 484-1688, carin.pearce@mensjournal.com; current contact, phone and e-mail: Nell Marie, Photo Editor, 1 212 484-4345, nell.marie@mensjournal.com .

INNOVATIVE PRINTING (PO Box 190-6 Ironbridge Dr, Collegeville, PA 19426-2045) former contact and e-mail: Kristen Moran, Art Director, kmoran@innoprint.com ; current contact: Barbara Flemming, Art Director.

SEA MAGAZINE (17782 Cowan Ste C, Irvine, CA 92614) former contact and e-mail: Mary Pivovaroff, Editorial Assistant, mary@goboatingamerica.com ; current contact: Laura Kirazian, Editorial Assistant.

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY (610 Opperman, St. Paul, MN 55123) former phone and fax: 1 612 687-7000, 1 612 687-6944; current phone and fax: 1 651 687-7000, 1 651 687-6944.

REDLEAF PRESS, former address and fax: 450 N Syndicate Ste 5, St. Paul, MN 55104, 1 651 645-0990; current address and fax: 10 Yorkton Court, St. Paul, MN 55117, 1 800 641-0115.

BLUE MOUND GRAPHICS INC (326 N 76th St, Milwaukee, WI 53213) Contact person is Lynn Lagowski, Art Director. Former e-mail: calendar@execpc.com; current e-mail: lynn@bluemoundcalendars.com .

HUDSON VALLEY MAGAZINE (22 IBM Rd Ste 108, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-5461) former contact and e-mail: Nicolas Mykytyn Jr, Art Director, nmykytyn@hvmag.com ; current contact: Bob Supina, Art Director.

LOG HOME LIVING (4200-T Lafeyette Center Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151) former contact and e-mail: Peter Lobred, Editor, plobred@loghomeliving.com ; current contact and e-mail: Sonia Monsma, Art Director, smonsma@homebuyerpubs.com .

NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE (79th St and Central Park West 8th Fl, New York, NY 10024) former phone: 1 212 769-5520; current phone: 1 646 356-6500.

BACKPACKER MAGAZINE (135 N 6th St, Emmaus, PA 18098) former contact and e-mail: Deborah Burnett Stauffer, Photo Editor, Deborah.burnett-stauffer@rodale.com ; current contact: Liz Reep, Photo Editor.

JACKSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (PO Box 550, Jackson, WY 83001-0550) former contact: Chris Hansen, Communications Manager; current contact: Jan Hutchenson, Communications manager.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR MAGAZINE (488 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022) former phone and fax: 1 212 224-3714, 1 212 224-3725; current phone and fax: 1 718 893-3589, 1 917 318-4197.

PHONE PICTURES

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The increasing use of mobile phones that include a camera phone function now allows pictures to be shared as soon as they're taken. Sending holiday postcards may soon be a thing of the past. These pictures can be sent to friends, relatives, and even photobuyers, worldwide via telephone lines. Following the introduction of the Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) a few years ago, and the recent launch of UTMS phones, users can now rapidly send larger amounts of data around the world with ease. Camera phones are among the consumer electronics products with the highest growth rates worldwide. Examples of the diverse options opened up by mobile image communication will be on display at Photokina 2004, which will take place in Cologne from 28th September to 3rd October. Leading suppliers, such as Samsung, Nokia, Deutsche Telecom, and Sony Ericsson, will be presenting new camera phones and mobile image communication.

BOOKS

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The Big Open, On Foot Across Tibet's Chang Tang, by Rick Ridgeway, photographs by Galen Rowell. The photos in the book are documentary in nature, showing the rugged terrain and the rigors of the trek. This expedition tragically became wilderness photographer Galen Rowell's last; he and his wife Barbara died in the crash of a private plane shortly after his return to the United States.

Exploration, endurance, and discovery, through one of Earth's least-known, most inhospitable regions. This book combines high drama with serious science, and is an inspiring account of the major contribution of four men to a worldwide campaign to stem Central Asia's trade in rare and endangered species.

The endearing Tibetan antelope, the chiru, is the source of the world's finest wool --shahtoosh-- sold as high-fashion scarves from India to 5th Avenue and Beverly Hills. For millennia, chiru have migrated every year across the 16,000-foot-high Chang Tang plateau, but their numbers have drastically dwindled due to their slaughter to obtain their wool. The goal of the four world-renowned mountaineers in the trek across The Big Open is to find and document the unknown calving grounds of the chiru, to then use this discovery to help the Chinese authorities protect the region before poachers discover it. Wildlife groups around the world are educating the public as to the inestimable cost of shahtoosh, and several countries have declared marketing shahtoosh illegal, but much remains to be done. ($26; 15BN 0-7922-6560-2; National Geographic Books, 1145 17th St. NW Washington D.C. 20036-4688; 212-725-7707)

http://www.photosourcefolio.com/bookstoreone.htm#0792265602

FACES OF HOPE: Children Of A Changing World, by Alison Wright, New World Library, 2003, ISBN 1-57731-223-6, $35, 180 pages. Filled with emotional, sensitive portraits of people in their natural settings, this photo-documentary offers page after page of stunning images. Wright's candid and posed photos, focusing on children in various underdeveloped countries, come complete with short narratives which demonstrate how her understanding of her subjects' cultures translates into gripping images of their lives. -David Arnold & Gail Rutman http://www.photosourcefolio.com/bookstoreone.htm#1577312236 .

TRAVELERS ABROAD

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Photobuyers: Watch this column. For the e-mail address, phone or fax number of the traveling photographer, call the PhotoSource International office and ask for Lela LeBree (1 800 223-3860). For an expansion of this list: www.photosource.com and press the Travelers Abroad button, to learn of past international destinations of our photographers.

Susan Brannon

August 3 - September 21, 2004

Roma, Sicily

Marc C. Johnson

August 3 - August 29, 2004

Vilnius, Lithuania

September 4 - September 10, 2004

Olso, Norway

September 14 - September 22, 2004

Lithuania

Barry Hollritt

August 1 - August 18, 2004

Nova Scotia

Jurgen Ankenbrand

September 3 - September 9

Bergen, Northern Norway

Cat Stoothoff

October 4 - November 17, 2004

England

October 18 - October 22, 2004

Belfast, Ireland

Yeltzin

January 3 - March 22, 2005

Canary Islands

April 2 - July 18, 2005

Cyprus

PHOTOGRAPHY, LOVE IT OR HATE IT!

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By Jeremy Hoare, Travel Photographer, London

Now that I am back home in the UK, I'm starting to go through the 8,000 pictures I shot over nearly three months -- eight weeks in Australia, and four weeks in Japan. As ever, it's a daunting task just to edit them, so I tend to do what most freelancers do at these moments: have another cup of tea, read a magazine, etc, anything but get on with it. But in the end I have to, and this self-discipline is the most important asset for anyone who's a freelance, no matter what they do.

First I put the images onto a lightbox, passing over each sheet of 36 exposures very quickly. This gives me the overall impression and lets me see the big picture. Then I go back over each sheet again, but slowly and looking for the frames with selling impact. What is that? I wish I knew for sure, but after a decade doing this I think I am beginning to understand what makes a picture sell. But then again, sell where? There are so many markets out there today. A look at the magazine racks in shops will tell you this, and they are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Today, with selling pictures online, I have made sales into areas there is no way I would otherwise have been able to access or even know about: Hungary, Spain, France, Korea, China and even the USA are some, just since the start of 2004.

Sadly, because the Nixvue Vista 30GB portable hard drive I bought failed so spectacularly, losing the 250 pictures I'd already downloaded and erased from the CF cards, I won't be doing anything with those. Besides the time spent taking the pictures (wangling my way into Japan Airlines Business Class lounge at Osaka, shooting Brisbane at night), this is a real potential loss of future income, of course. So I only used the Fuji S2 Pro digital from then on, when shooting in difficult lighting conditions -- at a winery in Australia where they were harvesting grapes during the night with just lights on the tractors, for instance. But I can't get hung up about the loss, it's just one of those things, but you do learn from mistakes. I now think that the link between the digital camera and computer when out in the field is the missing one, and my experience backs me up. One day the whole process will be solid state, no moving bits that almost always go wrong, roll on...!

So now, when I get 'slidelagged' over the lightbox, I take a break and just do something else, but that will most likely be sitting at a computer, and yes, looking at more slides but on a screen.

In the end, like a lot in life, being a photographer means loving the good bits and hating the boring ones. It has its ups and its downs. But hey, I wouldn't swap it for anything else!

Happy Shooting!

Jeremy Hoare is a freelance travel photographer residing in London, England. Phone/Fax: +44 20 7722 2065. E-mail: jeremyhoare@hotmail.com. <Web: www.travelwriters.com/jeremyhoare>.

Travel editors will find profitable information in the newsletter, TravelWriter Marketletter, published by Mimi Backhauser. For info: mimi@travelwriterml.com . Ask for a sample to be sent to you.

WHO ARE THE PLAYERS?

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Who are the players in the stock photography industry?

The players, of course, are the photographers and the buyers - but there are two separate "games" they can play in, and the stock photos differ, depending on which game they're in.

To get a clear picture of this, take a magazine and tear out all the advertisements. The photos that are left are what we call "editorial photography" [game 1]. The ads are "commercial photography" [game 2].

Stock photography is used in both areas, but with some big differences.

Most commercial photos are shot in studios or on contrived locations and conform to the wishes of several parties:

The client, the ad agency, the art director, and only slightly, the photographer.

Editorial photos meet the wishes of the editor of a magazine, book, or newspaper, and/or, a photo researcher, but first and foremost the photo meets the wishes of the photographer.

Commercial stock photos can be designed and produced by the photographer, but are still under the dictates of having to conform to "what sells." The photographer must gear the photos to fit into commercial clients' needs, trends in the industry, and to appeal to a wide, general audience. The resulting photos are often called generic images because in many cases they can fit a variety of uses.

Editorial stock photos are produced by a different approach. Rather than conform to the commercial needs of a client, the editorial stock photographer follows his or her own interest areas, needs, and enjoyment, in photographing certain segments of life and culture. Examples: medicine and health, sports, social issues, travel, etc. The photographer then sells these photos to markets that use images in those specific subject areas.

Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/cb78.html

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"In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject; an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen, as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms."

- Henri Cartier Bresson

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ON-LINE

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by Bill Hopkins

Recycle Your Computer for FREE

Recycling computer components, especially CRT monitors, is becoming even more important. Some states have even enacted a (small) recycling fee that is added to the price of any monitor or laptop/notebook at the time of sale. But the whole point is to keep computers, monitors, and other recyclable components, which often contain hazardous materials, out of landfills. During the summer, Office Depot stores, in partnership with H-P, will take any manufacturer's old computer and other electronics (such as copiers, fax machines, cell phones, and TVs under 27") for recycling at no cost to you. This special offer will run through Sept. 6, so now is the time to clean out your office or garage. And if the program is successful (by whatever means they are measuring success), it may be extended. Note that Office Depot will only accept one "product" per customer per day, and that a computer system counts as one product. So let's help them be successful, and reclaim some of your wasted storage space today! Remember, most computer companies charge $20-$35 for computer recycling, and you're not being an earth-friendly person if you dump the stuff in your trash (and you may be breaking the law as most municipalities have restrictions against dumping hazardous waste in with the regular trash).

Internet Calling

This is where you get a special phone, connect it to your broadband Internet connection, and start using the Internet phone as if it were a real, hard-wired phone for making and receiving calls. And just like a regular phone, there is a monthly phone bill, which, depending on your calling patterns, can be significantly less expensive than a regular phone, and with a lot more calling features. Technically, it's called VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol. There are some issues yet to be fixed, such as the lack of 9-1-1 calling (in most cases) and the fact that (unless your broadband modem and your Internet telephone are on a UPS) if you lose local electrical power, you lose your phone as well. Other issues include nefarious offshore companies having a legitimate U.S. area code and thus appearing above-board. One great advantage is that you can generally request any available area code for your phone. So, if you're in the hinterlands of Nebraska, you could easily have a phone number with a New York area code. For Internet phones, a New York City area code (212) is one of the most frequently requested, and thus hardest to get. The other popular ones are Beverly Hills (310), San Francisco (415), Los Angeles (213), Boston (617), and Chicago (312). Some estimates are that by the end of 2004, there will be a little under one million Internet phones in use. Vonage (www.vonage.com) is one of the more popular companies, but you can search the Internet using "internet phone company" as your search term.

Managing Digital Photos

Picasa is a free downloadable program that runs on Windows for organizing photos, creating slideshows, and more. It is a free program available for downloading from www.picasa.com. If you want to give it a try (we're not endorsing), let us know how it works for you. And for whatever its worth, Google recently acquired Picasa.

Bill Hopkins is the Webmaster of PhotoSourceFolio* (www.photosourcefolio.com) and a regular contributor to PhotoStockNotes. Send comments via e-mail to wh@photosourcefolio.com. Fax: 1 818 831-0916. For on-line questions, contact Bill on the Kracker Barrel at www.photosource.com/board.

NANPA ANNOUNCES COLLEGE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY. The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) is again providing an opportunity for up to ten full-time college students to attend its Annual Summit in Charlotte, NC, from January 17-23, 2005. Students interested in the program must qualify as scholarship recipients through an application process that includes submission of a portfolio. For information about the NANPA College Student Scholarship Program contact Jerry Bowman at NANPA headquarters at 1 303 422-8527. E-mail: jbowman@resourcenter.com; or Linda Helm, Chair of the NANPA College Student Scholarship Program, at linda@fineprintimaging.com . Updated information about the 2005 selection process will also be available on the NANPA website, http://www.NANPA.org .

July 17th - 1936 - The Spanish Civil War began. Photography had been modernized to the extent that journalists could take action shots of battle, so it was the first time that newspapers could show pictures of actual warfare, rather than just the aftermath. In one of the most famous war photographs of the twentieth century, photographer Robert Capa took a picture of a Republican militiaman just seconds after he had been shot, falling backward, lifeless, but caught by the camera in midair, still holding his rifle.

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THE 2004 ANNUAL PHOTOBUYER SURVEY

Photographers use our annual Survey Report to make sure they submit images

and market themselves to you just the way you prefer. Please help us help

them to make your life easier. This year's survey is easily accessible

on-line at https://www.photosource.com/photobuyer/survey.php and will only

take a few minutes to complete. No need to log in or include your name.

Thank you very much in advance for participating.

Rohn Engh & Mike Karlsson

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PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

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Indelible images - Sports Illustrated staff members who covered the XXVIII

OLYMPIAD to leave us with their indelible memory of the Games.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/olympics/2004/writers/08/29/frakes.photography/index.html

Industry Analysis: The CORRUPT PARTNERSHIP Between Advertising Agencies and

Graphic Arts Businesses - There is a different side of the advertising and

graphic arts business that many of us are aware of but few speak of: the

often-corrupt partnership between some advertising agencies and some

printers. http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/21816.html

Bit by Bit: On the Road with Digital Storage Devices - Digital cameras mean

not having to worry about KEEPING TRACK of exposed canisters of film. But

what happens when you run out of space on your media cards and you're not

ready to throw images away to make room for new ones?

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/21810.html

Photographer captures big dividends in digital - Commercial photographer

John Shoemaker knew switching to digital photography two years ago would

change the way he takes and produces photos, but he didn't realize how much

it would improve his MARKETING efforts.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/business/0408/29/c02-256879.htm

CCP's new curator talks photography - Now Britt Salvesen has been hired as

the Center for Creative Photography new curator, she'll finally get a

chance to help make the best of the CCP's impressive COLLECTION .

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/4/04_2.html

Reno man finishes his BURNING MAN project - The frame would be mounted on

the flatbed truck to show illustrations based on photographs shot by his

Canadian friend, Doug Mesney, at aquariums at Long Beach and Monterey Bay,

Calif., Newport, Ore., and exotic places such as Jamaica, Hawaii, the Greek

Isles and Australia.

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/08/28/79173.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=umbrella&sp3=umbrella&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=umbrella

FRAME READY PHOTOS - After mastering the ins and outs of your digital

camera, you might have thought that making a simple 5x7 or 8x10 print with

your inkjet printer would be the easy part. Unfortunately, it's not.

http://www.pdabuzz.com/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=30&itemid=423

A picture for his lady - Long time West New York Resident and retired

dentist Dr. A. Lawrence "Larry" Bram was presented with the award for

Outstanding Achievement in AMATEUR Photography by the International Society

of Photography recently.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12794614&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523591&rfi=6

EXHIBIT puts photography in spotlight-

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0830phxart30.html

UN EXHIBIT Promotes Peace and Cooperation

The UN's "All in Peace" photo exhibition highlighted youth athletes

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-8-29/23036.html

PHOTO DISCOVERY develops into search for woman

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/9528674.htm

Photographer captures big dividends in digital

"he didn't realize how much it would IMPROVE his marketing efforts";

http://www.detnews.com/2004/business/0408/30/c02-256879.htm

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