American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) DC/South chapter invites all photography enthusiasts to join us for the fourth DC Picture Show on July 15, 2010.

The DC Picture Show will be held at the 5th and K Street Busboys and Poets Restaurant in downtown Washington DC.
DATE – July 15, 2010 (Thursday)
LOCATION – 5th and K Street Busboys and Poets Restaurant 1025 5th St NW Washington, DC 20001 (MAP)
TIME – 6:30 pm to 9 pm
GETTING THERE AND PARKING – Closest metros: Mt. Vernon Square and Gallery Place-Chinatown (each two blocks away). There is ample car parking space near the venue.
ENTRY FEE – Entry to the show is free for ASPP members. Non-members will be charged $5.00
ASPP does not provide refreshments for the event, but Busboys and Poets has a full-service restaurant and bar.

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The presenters for the ourth DC Picture Show are Yanina Manolova and Maria Izaurralde

Yanina Manolova is a visual journalist based in Washington, DC area. A native of Bulgaria, she received her BFA in education and minor in speech pathology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". In 2000 she moved to the United States and later studied MA in photography at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication.

She has worked on different projects in Africa, Latin America, Europe and USA. Her real dedication is working on worldwide humanitarian and health care associated projects.

Her work has been featured in the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and many others.

Her photos appeared at numerous exhibits and she has won several international awards and various nominations including in the NPPA: Best of Photojournalism, Alexia Foundation for World Peace, Northern Short Course in Photojournalism, Southern Short Course in News Photography, NPPA: Women In Photojournalism and many others.

Her latest work is a short documentary film detailing her experience while following five Appalachian women during a period of their recovery from substance abuse and domestic violence.

Yanina will present videos and photographs of her projects -

1. Neverland: Appalachian Women- Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, Recovery

A documentary that details the individual struggles of five Appalachian women during a period of their recovery from substance abuse and domestic violence. Most of them are mothers who have lost custody of their children. All five women graduated from the Rural Women’s Recovery Program in Athens, OH.

2. Born Addicts: Drug-Addicted Babies in the United States

In the United States, the number of women abusing prescription pain medications (OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Darvon, Dilaudid, Demerol, Lomotil) and become opioid drug addicted is growing. “They are women that have had very rough backgrounds," says Steven Clay, D.O., Addiction Specialist in Ohio. "About 80-90% of women are coming here sexually and/or physically abused. About 80-90% of our patients are mothers. Women going in and out of prison. Kids being taken away. The way addiction is treated in the United States is – we put people in prison. We think the way to treat it is to punish people.”

Maria Izaurralde received her first DSLR as a Christmas gift in 2007, she found it intimidating. It was from someone who had taken notice of how she got lost once with a point-and-shoot, taking pictures of a lady with a mule in Ecuador. She waited until months later, when no one was looking, to pick it up and start photographing her vast surroundings; DC streets, alleys, urban decay, and the debaucheries of nightlife. She carried her camera always, and in time it was her camera that started taking her places. Soon enough photography opened up her world; she explored the local music scene, went to go-go's, photographing acts such as Chuck Brown, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7 and Bajofondo; she went to Vermont with a reggae band, to Boston with a rapper. Maria used social networking sites to show the world her work, and with the power of the Facebook tag, it was the latter photographic theme that she became most known for.

Every time she received a notification that someone had commented on or 'liked' a photo of a party they had been to, it meant that people were actually looking at her pictures.  For Maria, this triggered an addiction.  She began to take seriously the idea of chasing the wildest parties around the city; working her craft meant knowing where the night's debauchery would play out, or where the more city's more interesting, eclectic people could be found. It was in this way that she carved out her niche and became known as JPEG. By June of 2009 she was written up in the Washington Post as the newcomer on the scene of "partyrazzi's," and a few months later she struck a book deal with an owner of Eighteenth Street Lounge, which is scheduled for release in the Fall.

Maria will present her work photographing the nightlife of Washington DC.