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Presidents Message 2006
Posted: Thursday, January 5, 2006
President's Message 2006
Another new year has arrived and with it reflection and resolution. For most of us, the hurricanes have been and still continue to impact our lives and businesses.
It has been a hard year on all including this chapter due to the many changes and shifting around of events that went beyond our control.
One of them, once again,The Hurricane Relief Fund for Save the Children has been postponed to next month. Dacra has changed plans for their Art Walk night from Thursdays to the second Saturday of each month. While a better night for all, a sudden surprise to us, leaving us with an event to stand alone without the benefit of the public being there. We have elected to forgo Thursday January 12th and re-schedule in February to take advantage of a bigger weekend crowd and better night for all of us.
That leaves us with 6 more weeks of gathering of prints, publicizing this event and re-organizing our participants. Again, we are extending the time period for your print donations for another 4 weeks which can give us plenty of time to round one or two up. Prints can still be delivered to Paul Morris at 12345 West Dixie Highway.
Apart from the shooting on sets with the ability to render a finished print, your donated prints will appear for the public to view along with news coverage of this event calling attention to our chapter and its membership. It will show who we are and what we are capable of doing and why we are different from all the hundreds of other photographers where some of us feel we are losing jobs to. It can become a very successful event as a win win situation for us and Save the Children.
A show of unity , work, cooperation and hands on is the key. For the most part, ASMP is unknown to the community and the art world. Why we belong to it, and why it sets us apart from the rest, is also unknown, even to some of us.
Changing that is a resolution that needs to be addressed and this event is a perfect vehicle for it. Different than most groups, we are the most diverse set of professional photographers. We have them in every walk of our field, not part timers who work by day and shoot on weekends but full time publication and advertising photographers who have carved a track record and stand with a career over a period of time. This is what we need to show and this is what we need to stand for.
To say we are a member of ASMP has to be more than another "club" or a bunch of advocacy troopers who are hard to deal with.That is the wrong signal given. They have to be able to say that it stands for the tried and true, demanding of their own photographers and work ethics. A group that makes sure their members keep up with current trends through education and sharing of ideas, in order to guarantee to a client why we are who we are.
I was recently asked by a local ad school if I knew some fashion photographers and a few other various types who could panel a professional discussion for their students. I knew that he came to the right place. Our goal is to make others know. 2006 should be that year.Be involved,lets get going.
I will soon announce the next 2 months meetings, one of which will bring a National seminar to us.
Until then, I and the board wish all of you a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!
matthew pace
s.fl/president
p.s. January is election month both locally and nationally. The referendum will be up on the ballot once again.Board membership is still open to any general member who wishes to place his candidacy.
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