NCPPA Schedule
Friday, Feb 26th
4 p.m. -10 p.m.- Professional and Student Portfolio Judging. (Not open to public)
John Simmons from the Charlotte Observer will be running the POY at the meeting.
Thanks John!
Saturday, Feb 27th
9a.m.-Complete. - Multimedia and Individual Categories Judging: 1st rounds open to public
7-10 p.m. Social Gathering and Print Auction
Sunday, Feb 28th
10 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker Sam Abell
11:00 a.m. - 12 p.m. Awards Ceremony
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Annual Meeting
Hotel Reservations
Fairfield Inn & Suites Asheboro
Ask for the NCPPA Group Rate of $70
920 Executive Way
Asheboro, North Carolina 27203 USA
Phone: 1-336-626-9197
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Sam Abell's thirty-year career has been dedicated to achieving artistic expression through documentary photography. He has pursued his goals primarily through his lengthy, in-depth coverages for National Geographic magazine and its Book Division. At the same time, he has maintained a career as an artist, teacher, and author.
The raw material of Abell's photography comes from close contact with the world, especially austere, remote regions. To affirm and, in fact, emphasize his commitment to what actually exists, he has chosen to work in color and in a strict documentary tradition.
He has applied himself, particularly, to the photography of cultural landscape: He explores ways in which places can be purely recorded, with images simultaneously shaped by the photographer's imagination.
In addition, he has maintained a personal black-and-white photographic diary that documents the life behind the artistic process. In 1990 Mr. Abell's work was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York City. A companion book, Stay This Moment, was published at that time.
In addition to his photography Mr. Abell is a member of the board of the director of the Santa Fe Center For Photography, the George Eastman House, and the University of Virginia Art Museum. In 2002 he collaborated with Leah Bendavid-Val on a retrospective of his life and work titled Sam Abell:The Photographic Life., published by Rizzoli. He is also the author of the book Seeing Gardens, published in 2001.
Currently Mr. Abell is photographing the Amazon headwaters for a book project. An extensive online interview with Mr. Abell and gallery of his images can be found on the Digital Journalist website (Digital Journalist+Sam Abell). Mr. Abell is represented by the Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC.
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Ross Taylor is a staff photographer for The Virginian-Pilot, and is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
Taylor was named the 2007 Region 1 (New England) Photographer of the Year and is a two-time Photographer of the Year (NC) whose work has appeared on the cover of the National Press Photographers Best of Photojournalism magazine. He has won numerous international, national and regional awards as well as one of the Associated Press Photos of the Century awards.
Along the way, he has rambled across America, photographed in a Central American jail and received the Heimlich maneuver in a Tennessee Taco Bell.
Throughout his travels and work, Taylor has called a variety of places home - a walk-in closet, a storage space under a staircase, three attics, a couch in Central Appalachia and the back of a Nissan truck.
Taylor has hugged the Taj Mahal, kissed a 70-year-old woman on Bourbon Street, and swallowed fire at a Coney Island Side Show class.
He has been attacked by two angry mobs, several monkeys and one terrible virus in India.
Taylor skinny dipped in more than 20 states and was once stung by a jellyfish in the process. Taylor also accidently maced himself once he's not sure which was more painful.
In between shooting and thinking about photography, he reminisces about the glory days of foosball in Chapel Hill and a childhood filled with kickball, school pizza and chocolate milk.
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Rebecca Ducker - is a community journalist based at the Morning News in Florence , S.C. where she she shoots stills, produces video, and writes stories for the Morning News, WBTW News 13, and SCNow.com.
A 2007 graduate of Randolph Community College she began her career with internships in still photojournalism at the Greenville News in Greenville, S.C. and the Salisbury Post in Salisbury, N.C. In August of 2007 she started with the Morning News as an intern in the photography department. Two months later she was hired as a full- time photojournalist. During her first two years with the Morning News she worked on shooting and writing enterprise stories along with daily assignments as well as teaching herself broadcast video production. In August of 2009 she was promoted to Online Content Producer. In her current position she is responsible for providing content across three platforms print, broadcast, and web.
Her photojournalism and multimedia work has been honored by Media General, the North Carolina Press Photographer's Association, the South Carolina Press Photographer's Association and the Southern Short Course in News Photography.
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Ashlie White - is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She majored in Visual Communication at the school of Journalism and Mass Communication where she specialized in Photojournalism and Multimedia.
White served as President of the UNC student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. With innovation and diplomacy she secured funding through the 16-campus university system so members could travel to journalism workshops and seminars throughout the United States.
Shortly after graduating she traveled abroad working on several multimedia projects. They included stints in Ecuador for the Morehead Foundation and in Spain covering the labor movement for the Edward Jackson International Scholarship foundation.
In January of 2006 she began an internship with The Chattanooga Times Free Press and was promoted to staff photographer six month later. White worked at the newspaper until December of 2007. She is currently the director of project development for Adaptive Technologies in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Her work has been honored by the College Photographer of the Year contest, East Tennessee Golden Press Card Contest and the Pictures of the Year International contest.
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