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Image ©Greg Smith All Rights Reserved.
ASMP Colorado Social Media contest: Congratulations to Greg Smith for winning our monthly Facebook and newsletter cover contest! If you have an image you'd like featured here, go to ASMP Colorado Photo Chat on FB and upload your photo. The image that gets the most likes will be featured here next month and on the Facebook banner. You must be an ASMP member.
We're excited to bring you this added incentive! A 16x20 canvas print will be made for each month's winning image. These images will be displayed at the annual BBQ and/or holiday party. Winners will receive their prints after all 12 are displayed.
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Join an ASMP CO Committee in 2022
The future is upon us as we look to a new year for ASMP Colorado. We’re eager to diversify and include new faces and perspectives to move forward our state’s leading photographic trade group. We could use your help on a committee so please consider what you can bring to the table, and contact Jen Magnuson, jen@jenmagnusonphoto.com, to learn more - or fill out our volunteer interest form here.
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ASMP CO Board in 2022
President Jen Magnuson; Vice President Kathryn Wagner; Treasurer John Shelton; Secretary Jim Reiman and Committee Member Greg Smith; Big Events Chair Samantha Behrens; Special Event Vendor Programs Rick Souders and Larry Goodwin; Coffees committee member Paul Gomez; Website Larry Goodwin; Sponsorship Chair Rick Souders; Membership Chair Flor Blake; Education Chair Bill Baum; Marketing/Communications Chair Kathryn Wagner; Marketing Committee member - Social Media Howard Paul and Dave Rosberg; Graphics: Howard Paul and Kathryn Wagner; Editing Greg Smith Newsletter Chair (Until March) Daniel Hirsh; Phone Tree committee member TJ Romero; Past president and Director at Large Katie Warnke; Advocacy Liaison Greg Smith
Thank you to our outgoing president, Katie Warnke, who did a tremendous amount of work to make ASMP CO a better organization for all of us. You will be missed!
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A Message from the new ASMP CO President
Can you believe that it’s 2022 already? I am honored to have been chosen to serve the ASMP Colorado Chapter as President for the next two years. I definitely didn’t expect to be stepping into this role when I showed up at a brewery for a photographer meetup after joining ASMP in 2017, and was promptly invited to join the board and take over ASMP Colorado’s social media channels! But after four years on the board as Social Media Chair, Treasurer, and Vice President, here we are, and I am excited to lead the Chapter into the (hopefully) post-pandemic era!
I have immense gratitude for outgoing President, Katie Warnke, who deftly guided the Chapter from our in-person ASMP 75th Anniversary Strictly Business headliner event in early 2020, to an all virtual slate of events and workshops that kept our community engaged antd thriving through the toughest two years in most of our careers. Her leadership coupled with our bright, adaptable, creative team of board members, have steered us successfully through this unexpected rough patch.
ASMP’s core mission is to advocate, educate, and provide community for image makers — fostering thriving careers, a strong sense of professional ethics, and an unshakable belief in the power of images. I will continue to lead the Colorado Chapter in alignment with this mission, while fostering an inclusive community that values, embraces, showcases, and elevates the talents and voices of all Colorado photographers, especially those from underrepresented demographics.
My own journey with ASMP started back in Washington, DC, attending presentations and an assistants workshop when I was still in photography school. After moving to Colorado, I found the Colorado Chapter’s Meetup page, and I joined both the Chapter and the board in 2017. In that time, I have been mentored, met new people who are both friends and colleagues, elevated my photography career, and mentored others. My time with ASMP Colorado has paid for itself with jobs and connections and a wealth of knowledge.
Under my leadership, over the next two years, the board is looking to elevate the quality of our programming, and do more to add value to the photography community beyond the Front Range and Denver metro area. We are a statewide organization, and we want to recognize, be inclusive of, and provide valuable experiences and programming for photographers in every corner of this beautiful rectangle we call home. The pandemic has shown us that we can be nimble and responsive and reach communities across many miles, and we intend to take what we have learned during this challenge and use it to make the Chapter that much better.
If this sounds like an exciting path that you’d like to have a hand in creating, we are always welcoming new faces, willing hands, and open minds at any level of their careers to help build this Chapter. We would love to meet you, hear your ideas, and put them into action in the Colorado photo community. Fill out an interest form here.
I look forward to meeting, working with, and serving you all as President in 2022 and 2023.
With Gratitude,
Jen Magnuson
(She/Her/Hers)
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ASMP Member Feature: Kevin Mohatt
Kevin Mohatt is a Denver-based freelance photojournalist and regular contributor to Reuters, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Denver Post.
Growing up as a light-skinned kid with an afro in a segregated society hadn’t always been easy, but it taught him about the importance of learning how to connect with people regardless of how they saw you. He’s found connecting with the people he’s photographing to be a major influence on creating images that allows him to represent people as they truly are.
His work focuses on social justice issues and the criminal legal system, but he really just loves going on any assignment he is called for. He sees each assignment as an opportunity to find and make a great picture - even though that doesn’t always happen - but also as an opportunity to learn and grow as a photographer.
Above Image: ©kevinmohatt
Below images: ©kevinmohatt
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Virtual Coffee Meetup
This is an open discussion about the business of photography. Share a success story, ask questions and offer tips about running your business smoothly. All are welcome.
Date: Monday, February 14, 2022
Time: 7:30am - 9am
Cost: Free
Topic: ASMP Academy. We will share how the ASMP Academy has helped each other's businesses and learn what it has to offer.
Above image: ©Souders Studios
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Randy Brown: "In the Middle of Everywhere"
Date: Thursday, February 24th, 2022
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost: Free
Meeting ID: 825 5225 8218
Randy Brown is a Colorado-based documentary photographer working on projects that address socio/cultural issues. His 35-year photography career has offered opportunities to work with diverse clients, primarily through editorial and academic platforms. Examples include two Indonesia-based projects, Sumatra and Borneo, with the University of Denver Department of Anthropology. Another project with organizations helping veterans with PTSD and addiction issues involved rafting trips in the Colorado River and Cataract Canyon.
Brown is now photographing and writing a project addressing a decade-long drought, the exportation of critical water resources and their existential threat to the agricultural community in the San Luis Valley in South Central Colorado
“In The Middle of Everywhere” is a documentary project giving voice to families and individuals facing the external threat of private exportation of scarce water resources amid a multi-year drought.
This part of the larger project focuses on water transfers to the highly developed Colorado Front Range from the state’s San Luis Valley by water developers working through the Colorado Water Court.
The images point at the complexities, history, spirituality, ruggedness and dedication to preserving an important way of life for all residents of the San Luis Valley of Colorado.
The project's photographs document those on the front lines of preserving water resources – families and individuals, ranchers and farmers – as well as those whose lives the agriculture industry affects.
Above image: ©Randy Brown
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Brews & Business: TBD
Date: Monday, March 7, 2022
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Cost: Free
Zoom:
Meeting ID: 825 5225 8218
More info here:
Above image: ©SoudersStudios
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ANOTHER CALL FOR ENTRY!
Please enter our fourth Find a Photographer email campaign with your three best commercial images. You’ll find all the complete information and entry rules on the website. We plan to again send these Find a Photographer emails to hundreds of agencies, art buyers, art directors and producers in Colorado and the Western United States.
This is a tremendous opportunity. We need you to submit your best images NOW, so that we can continue this campaign.
• Deadline is Jan. 15, 2022
• Send to: colorado@asmp.org.
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Become featured on the ASMP CO Homepage
A special invitation to all ASMP Colorado Professional Members and assistants. We are having a unique “Call to Entry” in which we need your participation.
We are collecting images to update the slideshow carousel at the top of our web site. Your image will link directly to your Find A Photographer or Find An Assistant page. It will be great exposure and will elevate the level of professionalism amongst our very valued Professional Members and Assistants.
Please submit up to 3 of your favorite images that reflect your professional style and vision. We will select one image to be featured.
Submissions are due by by February 15, 2022. Please submit to: Webmaster@asmpcolorado.org.
Important! Please follow the below specs:
• Images should be jpg files, 72dpi, sRGB, 820px on the horizontal edge. 820x480px is preferred.
• The file name should be photographer-name_subject-name.jpg
• Please include a short testimonial on ASMP if you have one.
• A link to your find a photographer/find an assistant page on the ASMP website.
Also, tell us exactly how you’d like your name to read.
Images with improper specs will be ineligible.
Thank you for your participation in this Call to Entry and in our local ASMP chapter.
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ASMP CO Newsletter call for content
Do you have news you think our members would be interested in? Have you written an article our members would like? Please email asmpconewsletter@gmail.com to have it considered for publication here.
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Like and Follow our ASMP CO sponsors on social
Please like and follow our ASMP CO sponsors on social media. All links are below next to the logos. Interact with their posts and thank them for their support.
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ASMP Buy/Sell/Trade group on Facebook
This private group is for ASMP Colorado members and their friends for a convenient way to buy/sell/trade to people in the community.
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ASMP CO Newsletter Sign Up Form
Do you know someone who may be interested in ASMP and our events? Forward them this link http://bit.ly/2HQS8gI to easily sign up for our newsletter.
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SAVE THE DATES:
March 7- Virtual Brews and Business
April 1-3 - Assistants Workshop
June 13 - Virtual Coffee with special guest Jack Reznicki
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Profoto - Thank you to our Diamond Level Sponsor!
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Sony - Thank you to our Silver Level Sponsor!
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SOUDERS STUDIOS | Photo Studio Rentals
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Sara Rosinksy | Shiny Red Copy |
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