If you’re in the Seattle area today, I will be appearing at a panel discussion for photographers possibly facing job and/or career changes.
The event is titled, “Navigating The Downturn: A Photography Survival Discussion,” and is sponsored by the NPPA (National Press Photographers Association).
It’s free for those who want to attend and will take place from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time in the community room of the 2200 Westlake Complex on South Lake Union.
The impetus for the panel came from NPPA’s vice president Sean D. Eliot, the organization’s long-time former national secretary who is a staff photographer at The Day in New London, CT. The local effort has been spearheaded by former national president Tony Overman, a staff photographer at the Daily Olympian in Olympia, WA.
The panel will be moderated by Overman and panelists include my good friend Craig Mitchelldyer, a great guy and terrific shooter who shoots everything (editorial, portrait, and weddings) and has done very well for himself after leaving newspapers,well-known Seattle-based editorial and annual report photographer Rich Frishman and Karl Maasdam,
a portrait and wedding photographer who left his job as the chief
photographer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times in 2004 to start his own
business.
It should be a casual, fun and informative event. Here’s more info.
As Craig said to me on the phone the other day, it’s a good chance to share with others all the mistakes we’ve made along the way and wish we could do over.
Hope to see you there.