KNPA Conference – January

For those of you who missed out on a great opportunity in going to the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, you are fortunate that the Kentucky News Photographer’s Association’s annual conference/contest is still waiting out there for you. The conference takes place in Louisville on January 25 and 26 and has an exceptionally strong panel of contest judges and speakers, such as Pulitzer Prize winner Renée C. Byer of the
Sacramento Bee; David Frank of The New York Times; Seth Gitner of The
Roanoke Times; journalism professor Steve Raymer of Indiana
University, a National Geographic photographer; Keith Morrison from
NBC.

The images in this post are winning images from the 2004 contest. We’ve talked about it a number of times already, but KNPA is a chance for you guys, collectively, to let the outside world know what you’re trying to build here at UK and I expect everyone to enter.

Below is a quick description of the event. If you have any questions about going to KNPA (if you’re a UK PJer I would, really, really (really) expect to see you there) let me know or contact Joe Imel, whose email is at the bottom of the KNPA description.

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The Kentucky News Photographers Association’ s annual Educational
Seminar and Photographer of the Year Contest will be held Jan. 25-26,
2008, at the Louisville Marriott East. Contest rules, entry forms and
seminar registration can be found at www.knpa.org
Saturday’s seminar schedule features a full day of speakers
including Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer of the
Sacramento Bee; David Frank of The New York Times; Seth Gitner of The
Roanoke Times; journalism professor Steve Raymer of Indiana
University, a National Geographic photographer; Keith Morrison from
NBC; Fred Shook from Terranova Pictures; and Kevin Johnson, of b-
roll.net, the Television News Photography website. Local speakers
include David Stephenson, of the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kylene
Lloyd of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The seminar topics include documentary photojournalism,
multimedia, both audio and video, long term projects and covering
assignments from your back yard to overseas. Seminar Saturday
culminates with an award banquet and dinner.
This year’s POY contest features new multimedia categories and a
separate professional and student contest. The winners’ of the POY and
Student POY contest will receive Nikon cameras and the winner of the
Sports POY will take home a Canon 40D.

We will have vendors on site Friday and Saturday. There will be
coffee, soda, and snacks in the vendor room during the breaks.
Students will be able to sign up for portfolio critiques Saturday and
talk with award winning photographers and leaders in the industry.
KNPA dues are $35 a year from professionals and $10 a year for
students. The contest fee is $35 for professional KNPA members and
free KNPA student members. The seminar is free to KNPA member students
and $35 for KNPA professionals and non-members.
The KNPA, an accredited chapter of the NPPA, is refocusing its
efforts on the working professionals across the state as well as
provide educational opportunities for students. The web site, www.knpa.org
, has been relaunched with a new look and features. In the near future
we will add a job bank, used equipment for sale, links to member web
sites and well as feature links to all multimedia entires from the POY
contest. All winning entries will be displayed on the KNPA web site.
In a time when staff jobs are being cut or frozen and our job
descriptions and expectations are changing, the KNPA, with your help,
is looking to be more of a resource that it has it has in the past.
Please make plans to enter the POY contest and attend the seminar. We
have an NPPA Flying Short Course quality weekend planned right here in
our own backyard. It will be a great weekend to see incredible images
from the past year in Kentucky, network and get reacquainted with old
friends and make some new ones.
Keep checking the KNPA web site for updates about the contest
and seminar. If you have questions about the seminar contact KNPA vice-
president Joe Imel (joe@joeimel. com). If you have still or TV contest
questions, contact Amy Wallot (awallot@hotmail. com) or Drew Cook (drewcook@wave3. com
).