ASPP Midwest invites you to a day education and networking with fellow picture professionals.

When: Friday, September 24th, 2010

8.30am Continental Breakfast

9am to 11am Session 1 – "Rights Management & Copyright" by Nancy Wolff, esq.
Copyright expert and Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard- NYC

11.00am Coffee Break & snacks

11.30am to 1.30pm Session 2 – "360 Content: Multi-Media Licensing" a panel presentation
Presenters: Cengage Learning; Bridgeman Art Library; Universal Images Group/Encyclopaedia Britannica

1.30pm Buffet Networking Lunch

2.30pm Session 3."Electronic Publishing" Presentation

5.30 pm ASPP Networking / Happy Hour

Cost: $30 for an ASPP/ASMP/PACA members. $40 for non-members
Includes Breakfast, Coffee Break, and Lunch!

Location: Harrington College 1st & 4th Floors
200 West Madison, Chicago, IL 60606

RSVP online at www.aspp.com or at ASPP Midwest Facebook Page
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You are invited to an informative evening sponsored by The American Society of Picture Professionals & Getty Images, Wednesday, July 14th in Chicago

5:30-6:00PM Refreshments and Networking

6:00-6:45 PM "Photographers Choice" presentation by sports photographer Jonathan Daniel

7:00-9:00PM "Cross-Platform Image Rights and Licensing: 2010 and Beyond"

A presentation and panel discussion on the changing world of licensing, rights, rights clearances, licensing models (including subscription and microstock) and the implications of those changes to the stock-buying audience.

Presenters / panelists will be:

Linda McCauley, Senior Director, Corporate Counsel, Getty Images

Miles Hunter, Principal User Experience Researcher, Getty Images

Shoshana Bass, Director of Pricing and Business Intelligence, Getty Images

Kris Strom, Photo Editor, ABA Journal, American Bar Association

Mandy Groszko, Rights Specialist, Cengage Learning

When: Wednesday, July 14 beginning at 5:30 pm

Where: Getty Images, 122 S. Michigan Ave. 9th Floor, Chicago, IL. (across from the Art Institute of Chicago)

Why: Stay on top of industry changes and trends. Meet and greet fellow picture professionals.

Admission: is FREE for ASPP members and $10 for non-members.

Refreshments will be provided.

RSVP: register online or email George Sinclair at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

ASPP Midwest meeting in Columbus OH on June 3rd will discuss the use of photography in the multimedia world. Please join our panelists as they discuss what they are doing with multimedia, where they think they are going, and how still imagery is involved.

Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM for a half hour of snacks, beverages and networking followed by our panel presentation at 6 PM

Where: The McGraw-Hill Company, 8787 Orion Place (just off of Polaris Parkway), Columbus OH 43240

RSVP: Please email Mandy Groszko at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are able to attend.

Admission: ASPP Members free
Non-Members $10 ($5 for McGraw-Hill employees)

An enlightening interdisciplinary networking event/panel discussion took place April 22, 2010 at the Minneapolis Photo Center. Attendees and panelists alike ate, drank, and mingled in the photo coop studio of the beautiful Minneapolis Photo Center for the first half of the evening.

For the second part of the evening, the attentive crowd settled in and listened to a diverse panel of professionals from a wide variety of industry niches, discuss the topic SCRAMBLED CONTENT “Where Is It All Going?”. The discussion was arranged and moderated by Paul Henning founder of Stock Answers, LLC. The following experts from many segments of media took a look back at where they’ve come from, where they’re at today and, perhaps most importantly, where they see themselves and their industries going in the next few years.

Steve Niedorf, professional photographer/Niedorf Photography

“Video is not the future, it is now”. Within a year or two, successful shooters will have to be well rounded in both stills and video. Though the recent changes in the photo industry have been painful, you can’t fix the market, you have to go with it.

If you’re going to make it as a shooter, you have to be really good and smart and follow trends closely. You can’t survive as an ‘ok’ shooter any more.

Deb Pastner, Photo Editor/Minneapolis Star Tribune

Ten years ago the Minneapolis Star Tribune photographers were still using film and there was one photo deadline each night. Fast forward 10 years to today, everything is digital and photographers can send stills and video from directly from their cameras on location to the editors computers. Now content must always be current and “the deadline is every second vrs 11 pm”. This new approach is exciting but stressful. All of the strib photographers shoot both stills and video.

Kat Dalager, Manager of Print Production/Campbell Mithun ad agency

“It’s all about content, both still and moving.” The advertising industry has experienced a lot of pain in the past year, and have lost a large percentage of staff. This has forced a lot of innovation through “integrated production”.

Production is totally changing. Campbell Mithun creates content that can be used across multiple platforms, and combines still photo and TV shoots to create multi- media assets. The line between stills and video is blurring which is shifting the way content can be licensed. The lexicon is changing.

Jennifer Kane, social networking consultant/Kane Consulting

“Content is in motion, nothing is static”. Using social media tools is a powerful form of marketing if you know how to use it, but you have to have “content with a strategy”, not sloppy content to be effective.

As a Social Media innovator, Jennifer spends 25% of her day engaging in social networking relationships, primarily through Twitter. Much of the rest of her time is spent monitoring and studying these relationships. You must keep your content fresh. Adding content increases visibility.

Dan Wallek, Director of Electronic Content & Photo Research/ Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

Print is not dead, but the rapid evolution of electronic products is changing everything, and print products will soon be expected to have an electronic component. Educational publishers are scrambling to compete with trade publishing companies like Disney who offer high-end electronic content basically for free.

The present is “a great period of experimentation” where the old rules no longer apply. These are both challenging and exciting times where publishers are shifting from creating books- to creating content that can but used across multiple platforms.

Laurie Etchen, Director of Production Services/Greenspring Media Group

Since 2006 magazines sales have decreased by almost half and jobs have been cut way back. Current technologies, plus a struggling economy have caused companies to streamline their process and create fewer, but more dynamic and diverse jobs.

For example, as well as directing production services, Laurie has brought all photography in house and is saving 50% photo costs at Greenspring Media. A growth area in the magazine industry is custom publications, all of which have digital editions.

Some of the common themes that emerged over and over were:

• Video is not the future -it is now. The distinction between video and stills is slipping away.
• We are all multi-media content developers now -not just book/newspaper/magazine publishers. Print is not dead but it can’t live without a digital component.
• To grow as a professional in these industries you, have to have a multi-faceted skill set and an open mind.

The event created a broader sense of community across disciplines by helping us all step out of our individual specialties into a bigger conversation. I think everyone left with a better understanding of the common ground that many of our experiences share. We can all benefit by learning from each other to stay on top of the dizzying changes.