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The APA/Lucie Foundation Scholarship application window is rapidly closing. The scholarship is available to a deserving established professional photographer for a specific project in the amount of $5,000 through APA’s partnership with the Lucie Foundation. APA desires to support and encourage growth and professional development, and is excited to partner with the Lucie Foundation for the 2012 grant cycle to show its commitment to advancing professional photography.
“This is the first year we are offering our own photography scholarship and I’m very proud to be a part of the program,” comments APA’s National President, Theresa Raffetto. “Tony Gale and Michael Grecco who head our scholarship committee worked diligently to make this a reality. Partnering with the Lucie Foundation has been a wonderful collaboration and we are grateful for the support they have offered.”
Professional photographers interested in applying for the scholarship will be asked to write a one-page description of the project for which they are seeking funding. Applicants can apply online now but will close on April 30, 2012.
“As a photographic educator I see the need for new ways to help photographers along their individual path,” adds APA National Board Member & APA New York Chapter Representative, Tony Gale. “By joining with the Lucies on this scholarship, I see tremendous potential to continue to make a very positive impact on the photographic industry.”
The photography scholarship selection committee will be comprised of one representative from APA, as well as the Lucie Foundation Founder, Hossein Farmani, and Executive Director of the Lucie Foundation, Cat Jimenez.
“APA is proud to be working with such a prestigious organization as the Lucie Foundation,” remarks APA National Vice President and Chair of the Advocacy Committee, Michael Grecco. “We partnered with them knowing they would be the best people to administer something as important as our own scholarship.”
The Lucie Foundation’s support of photography is broad, from photojournalism to fashion photography, digital to medium format, including every other category and subcategory. The organization’s concern isn’t with genre, but rather to support visionaries producing work that is at once gripping, and original.
About the Lucie Foundation
The Lucie Foundation’s three-fold mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent and celebrate the appreciation of photography worldwide. Signature programs include the annual Lucie Awards recognizing and honoring the greatest achievements in photography, annually, and The Month of Photography Los Angeles. The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable foundation.
About American Photographic Artists (APA)
The American Photographic Artists is a leading national organization run by and for professional photographers. With a culture that promotes a spirit of mutual cooperation, sharing and support, APA offers outstanding benefits, educational programs and essential business resources to help its members achieve their professional and artistic goals. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with chapters in Atlanta, Los Angeles, the Midwest, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Charlotte, Colorado, the Northwest and Washington, DC, APA strives to improve the environment for photographic artists and clear the pathways to success in the industry. Recognized for its broad industry reach, APA continues to expand benefits for its members and works to champion the rights of photographers and image-makers worldwide.
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About Agency Access
Agency Access is the only one-stop promotional service that takes care of marketing for photographers. Instead of doing all their marketing alone, Agency Access photographers have a team of experts supporting their careers. That’s because we’ve made it our mission to give photographers everything they need to get work, all under one roof. Learn more.
Do you have an independent contractor working for you? Are you at risk of a lawsuit if that independent contractor is injured on the job?
Workers’ Compensation regulations have opened the door for lawsuits. Contrary to popular belief, you CAN be held liable if a 1099 contractor does not meet certain working requirements.
New regulations make a default assumption that “independent contractors” are actual employees unless explicit criteria are met. Laws now contain firm, unambiguous language and place the burden of proof on the employer. In other words, if you are hiring an independent contractor—it is your job to prove that he/she is indeed independent if there’s question.
In order to prove that your relationship with an “independent contractor” is legally valid, make sure that at least the following three factors are established:
- No Direction and Control. In order to be considered an independent contractor, a worker should carry out all activities without instruction or supervision of the presumed employer.
- Outside Trade. The service provided by the worker must be outside of the employer’s usual path of business. As a result, “overflow crews” are not independent unless you can document that they carry their own insurance.
- Independent Profession. The worker must be engaged in an independent trade, occupation or profession as an independent business enterprise. This may mean the contractor is working for others or can provide proof that he/she is truly working independently.
Every state has different workers’ compensation guidelines, so APA Insurance Services recommends that you consult a professional to determine whether or not you need workers’ comp coverage.
Visit our Photography Insurance website today for a FREE indication of cost and coverage on all of your insurance needs—including workers’ compensation coverage, business owners policies, equipment coverage and more!
Why choose APA Insurance Services? We provide insurance exclusively for professional photographers and understand their unique coverage needs. We also offer an exclusive discount to all APA members! Plus, we offer complimentary certificates of insurance with a quick, 24-hour turnaround!
Call For Entries deadline is April 20, 2012. NO extensions! Submit Today!
We want to see what you shoot when you’re “Off The Clock”: APA-LA is holding its first annual Curated Personal Photography Exhibition. It’s not a contest, but a unique opportunity to have your work considered by Gordon Baldwin, a respected former photography curator from the J. Paul Getty Museum. From the submissions, 100 images will be selected for the exhibition.
TWO RECEPTIONS, TWO ADVERTISING AGENCIES, EXCEPTIONAL EXPOSURE.
The exhibition will be shown at opening receptions in both Los Angeles and Colorado and will also hang at TBWA/Chiat/Day and Crispen Porter + Bogusky, two of the most creative advertising agencies in the nation.
Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to share your personal work with your peers and advertising agency creatives.
Click here for full details:
OFF THE CLOCK
APA-LA 2012
Curated Personal Photography Exhibition
American Photographic Artists, San Francisco Announces:
Curator’s Voice
A Competition & Exhibition for Fine Art Photography
Open to All Photographers
American Photographic Artists is pleased to announce CURATOR’S VOICE – an exciting new opportunity for photographers who are engaged in personal work and /or a dedicated fine art practice. As part of the APA’s overall mission to expand its membership and to support, encourage and inspire practitioners of all types of photography, APA SF is planning an ongoing series of opportunities for photographers to submit their personal and fine art work to selected curators from the fine art community.
We are very excited to be launching this new series of exhibition opportunities with Gwen Lafage of Carte Blanche Gallery! As our first curator, Gwen has chosen the theme (Un)Familiar for the inaugural CURATOR’S VOICE competition.
Selected winners of APA SF’s first CURATOR’S VOICE competition (to be juried by curator & gallery owner Gwen Lafage) will have the opportunity to exhibit and also sell their work as part of a small group show at Carte Blanche Gallery on Valencia Street, in the heart of San Francisco’s very vibrant Mission District.
Winners will also be permanently featured in our CURATOR’S VOICE online gallery – to be publicized to members of the fine art community and other creative decision-makers nationwide. Plus, winners will each receive an important written personal endorsement from the Curator.
APA SF CURATOR’S VOICE
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION & EXHIBITION
CALL FOR ENTRIES OPENS: Monday, April 9, 2012
COMPETITION THEME: (Un)Familiar – please see the Curator’s Voice website for more information about the theme
FINAL DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Monday, May 7, 2012 by or before 12noon PDT
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
EXHIBITION LOCATION & DATES FOR WINNERS: Carte Blanche Gallery, June 22 – July 18, 2012
EXHIBITION OPENING: Friday, June 22, 2012, 6:30–9:00 PM
(5:30–6:30 PM, Exclusive Preview for APA Members, Exhibitors, and Press)
CARTE BLANCHE GALLERY is located at 973 Valencia Street — San Francisco, CA 94110
ENTRY FEES
APA Members: $20 for a series of four images. Minimum entry is 4 images; maximum entry is 12.
Non-members: $40 for a series of four images. Minimum entry is 4 images; maximum entry is 12.
PLEASE NOTE: As per the request of the curator, you must enter a series of at least four (4) images to have your work considered for this competition & exhibition, but you cannot enter more than 12. Sorry, no exceptions.
COMPLETE COMPETITION INFORMATION IS HERE: http://apasf.com/cv/
 Images pulled from some of the current entries. Clockwise from top left: Erik Almas, Jereme Thaxton, Mark Rutherford, Clark Vandergrift, Sandro, Joseph Seif, Bob Carmichael, Sam Heydt.
100 MEMBERS, 80 VIDEOS
100 APA members joined The 2012 APA Short Video Contest with 80 of them submitting videos. An incredible array of motion work by APA members.
You can still go and view the videos on Vimeo. The 2012 APA Short Video Contest is found on Vimeo in the Art and Films categories or just click here, http://vimeo.com/groups/130147/videos.
Winners to be announced April 18 at NAB in Las Vegas and posted in the evening at www.apanational.com.
A Special Thanks to the industry sponsors for their support of APA and the contest.
 
Authors Coalition of America, LLC (“ACA”), has updated the list of Individual Author Distributions as of April 2012. The list identifies a number of American Photographers who may be due royalty payments from non-U.S. sources. These royalties have been received to compensate authors for the foreign reprographic use of U.S. copyrighted materials.
Please visit the ACA website at http://www.authorscoalition.org and click on the Individual Author Distributions link to learn more about the program and find out if ACA is looking for you. ACA was founded in 1994 and today is a coalition of 22 American Author Member Organizations. ACA is an Associate Member of the International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organizations. American Photographic Artists (APA) has been a member of ACA since 2008.
APA has been a proponent of getting the funds collected by the Reprographic Rights Organizations designated for photographers into the hands of those photographers. We are very pleased with the efforts of the ACA to publish the information for Individual Author Distributions.
As an APA member, our find a photographer tool, SearchAPA, is marketed to the top creatives in the world. Each month APA sends a promotion to art directors and art buyers. The image selected for April is by Mark Leibowitz , the 1st Place Fashion winner from The APA Awards 2011 Photo Competition, fashion show chaos!
Learn more and see other recent SearchAPA promos HERE.
 APA members Heather Elder of Heather Elder Represents and Kate Chase of Brite Productions are producing a joint series blog called Community Table whose mission is to bring education on the top-of-mind industry issues. APA wants to share this with the photo community and to also ask if any other of our members would like to submit their own blogs for consideration to have an article in insideAPA.
Now to get to Community Table. This week’s installment is devoted to the Los Angeles Art Producer’s thoughts on marketing and the emailer controversy. “Keeping the conversation going with Los Angeles Art Producers at our Community Table Part II: The Main Course” READ HERE
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