Received Date:
Wednesday, February 3, 1999 - 11 am to 7 pm
Town & Country Hotel Resort - San Diego, California
REGISTER EARLY - THIS EVENT SELLS OUT!
What is a Portfolio Review? Here's an opportunity for you to meet with
an experienced photo professional to discuss and review your portfolio. You will be given
guidance and suggestions for your photographs, presentation and options for selling your
work. Look over the brief biographies of the reviewers and choose six people you would like
to meet with, in order of preference.
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Each attendee may register for a limit of two portfolio reviews. Fees must
accompany this form. Bring a portfolio of about 100 images which includes
transparencies for color, prints for black/white. No negatives or contact sheets please.
Each review is a 20 minute session. Reviews will be assigned based upon availability and
date of receipt of your registration. Appointments will be scheduled every twenty minutes
starting at 11 am and ending at 6:40 pm, Wednesday, Feb. 3rd. The time of your review will
be preassigned and confirmed in writing. If you have any scheduling constraints, please
attach them to this form. If you have any questions regarding the reviews, not pertaining
to the schedule, please E-mail or call the coordinator, Niki Barrie at nikibarrie@aol.com
or (212) 925-2110.
Listed below are the reviewers and their affiliations. On the preceeding pages are the biographies of the reviewers. Please rank and
number your top six (6) choices.
(1 being the highest and 6 being the lowest.)
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Peter Burian |
Outdoor & Nature Photography |
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Kathleen Cameron |
The Tech Museum of Innovation |
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Sharon Cohen-Powers |
The Wildlife Collection |
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Deborah Culmer |
Animals Animals |
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Danita Delimont |
Wolfgang Kaehler |
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Townsend Dickinson |
Photographer, editor and researcher |
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Diana Eilers |
../graphic Arts Center |
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Deborah Free |
Natural Selection |
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Connie Gelb |
The Nature Conservancy |
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Christian Grzimek |
Okapia |
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Eldon Greij |
Birder's World |
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Darrell Gulin |
Photographer |
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Karen Huntt Mason |
Corbis |
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Patricia McGlaufin |
Animals Animals |
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Arthur Morris |
Bird photographer |
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Ray Pfortner |
Art Wolfe Inc. |
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Tracy Richards |
Panoramic Images Photo Agency |
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Dave Ross |
Corbis |
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Robin Simmen |
Amphoto Books |
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Doug Weschler |
VIREO |
Special Request - If all of my six choices are taken:
Cancel my review and refund my fee
Please call me to make new choices
Please assign me to an available reviewer(s) and send confirmation in writing
Authorize payment for _____1 review @ $40, ______ 2 reviews @ $80.
Please mail or fax your registration form by January 7, 1999 in order to ensure your
portfolio review placement. No application for reviews will be processed after
Jan. 7, 1999. Thereafter, check on-site for possible review availability.
FEES: Payable in US Funds to NANPA by check, Visa, MasterCard and American
Express. Registration fees must accompany this form.
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Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be in writing. Full
refund will be made for cancellations received by January 7, 1999. There will be no
refunds for cancellations after January 7, 1999.
Mail to: NANPA, 10200 West 44th Avenue, #304, Wheat Ridge, CO
80033-2840 Phone: (303) 422-8527 Fax: (303) 422-8894
Portfolio Reviewers' Biographies
Peter Burian - Peter is a freelance writer/editor and photographer specializing in stock photos for advertising and photo/text packages for
editorial markets. He is the editor of Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photography. As a recognized expert on photo equipment, Peter has
written for Shutterbug, PHOTO LIFE (Canada), Australian Photography, FOTO(Spain), and others. He has edited or co-authored several
Majic Lantern guide books to 35mm camera systems. He writes about cameras and lenses for Shutterbug's Photo Buyers Guide and he writes
about camera equipment for various Outside magazine publications. He is co-author of the book National Geo../graphic Photographers Field
Guide which will be available June 1999.
Kathleen Cameron - Kathleen Cameron researches photos for museum ../graphic panels at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose,
California. She was formerly picture editor on science and nursing textbooks for the college division of Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
She has also worked with gift industry clients as the photo librarian for Landmark Stock Exchange and she organized the still photo collection for
non-profit arts organization, Headlands Center for the Arts. Kathleen began her career as photo researcher for the Bettmann Archive and library
systems manager and darkroom manager for Archive Photos.
Sharon Cohen-Powers - Sharon Cohen-Powers has been in the stock photography business for 19 years. She is president/owner of The
Wildlife Collection picture agency which specializes in images of nature and wildlife and represents 26 photographers from around the world.
She writes for Studio Photography, Photo Source International, The Guilfoyle Report and many prominent nature and wildlife publications. She
is the new editor of Currents, NANPA's quarterly newsletter. She was the co-president of the New York Chapter of the American Society of
Picture Professionals (ASPP), its New York regional newsletter editor for six years, and is a current member of the New York Chapter Board of
Directors.
Deborah Culmer - One of Deborah's primary responsibilities at Animals Animals/Earth Scenes picture agency is acting as photographer
liaison. Not only is she the primary contact for photographers, but she is the first contact for prospective photographers. Deborah takes the initial
look at portfolios and makes the call to recommend or decline representation. She also conducts negotiations with clients, giving her perspective
on the selling points of photography. "The experience of balancing clients' needs and expectations against the interests of photographers is
invaluable in understanding what makes a picture commercially viable," she says. Deborah has been secretary of PACA (Picture Agency Council
of America) for three years.
Danita Delimont - Danita Delimont is the agent for well-known wildlife and travel photographer Wolfgang Kaehler. Danita and Wolfgang
started their own stock photography business when the industry was still in its infancy. Their clients include publishers, travel companies,
advertising agencies, and zoo and aquarium exhibit developers. When time allows, Danita also works with other photographers and writers on
various projects. In 1990 she set up and negotiated a book deal with Chronicle to publish Polar Bear with photographs by Dan Guravich
(recently deceased) written by Downs Matthews. With a degree in anthropology, Danita's knowledge of world cultures has been extremely
valuable to her and Wolfgang's business.
Townsend Dickinson - Townsend Dickinson has been a photographer, photo editor and photo researcher specializing in natural history and
editorial photography for 23 years. His photos have been published in hundreds of books, magazines and ads, including Audubon, Natural
History, National Geo../graphic, and Time magazine. His photo editing skills have helped to build editorial photo collections at several major New
York City photo agencies. As a photographer, Townsend is working on several exciting long term photo projects that include the Long Island
Sound ecosystem and neotropic migrant birds. Townsend is past national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He
is currently developing, as an adjunct professor, a course in environmental photography at the newly instituted School of Earth and Environmental
Science at Queens College, New York.
Diana Eilers - Diana Eilers has been the photo editor at ../graphic Arts Center Publishing Company in Portland, Oregon, for five years. GAC
publishes large-format coffee-table photo../graphic essay books and yearly wall calendars, and Diana works with well-established professional
photographers on both. She recruits new photographers for new titles and often travels on photo../graphic expeditions with photographers.
Deborah Free - Deborah Free has been manager of Natural Selection picture agency since it was established in 1987. She is currently president
and manager, responsible for daily operations. She is also liaison to contributing photographers, catalog coordinator and editor for submissions to
the company. Under Deborah's administration, Natural Selections has grown form a "one-man band" to a mature and highly competitive presence
in the stock photography industry. With more than 80 photographers and 700,000 images from around the world, the agency is one of the fastest
growing in the industry.
Connie Gelb - Connie Gelb is the photo editor of The Nature Conservancy's membership magazine and web site. In addition to hiring
photographers for editorial assignments, she is also currently coordinating photo assignments of 120 sites in the Unites States, Latin
America/Caribbean and the Asia-Pacific region for the Conservancy's five-year capital campaign. Before joining the Conservancy, she worked as
a network editor for Agence France-Presse's International Newspictures division in Washington, D.C. She has also worked as a freelance
photographer for newspapers and magazines.
Christian Grzimek - Christian, with his mother Erika Grizmek, has managed the photo agency Okapia KG in Frankfurt, Germany, since 1980.
Okapia was founded in 1954 by Christian's father Michael Grzimek and his grandfather Professor B. Grzimek to produce documentary films
including the Oscar-winning Serengetti Shall Not Die and No Room for Wild Animals. Christian published two books in the 1980s about
animals, and he produced a weekly television series which ran for more than a year on ZDF, the largest broadcasting station in Germany.
Eldon Greij - After spending 26 years as a college professor, Eldon Greij created and launched Birder's World in 1987. Three years ago, he
sold the magazine to Kalmbach Publishing Co. and continued as editor until this past October. Today, as editor emeritus, Eldon acts as
consultant, writer and speaker. Eldon's education is in animal ecology with an emphasis on birds. He served on the faculty of Hope College in
Holland, Michigan, from 1962 to 1988, where the major focus of his research was on the common moorhen. In 1994, he wrote the chapter on the
moorhen for Migratory Shore and Upland Game Bird Management in North America. He is currently an adjunct professor of biology at Hope
College. Eldon plans to teach courses on bird study for birdwatchers.
Darrell Gulin - Darrell Gulin has been a photographer for more than 15 years, marketing his stock to editorial markets, stock agencies,
workshops and seminars for the past 13. He is an accomplished speaker/teacher who presented a successful program at the NANPA Forum in
Florida in 1998, which addressed, among other topics, what sells and what doesn't. His work has been showcased in nearly every major nature
calendar including Audubon, Kodak, Nature Conservancy and Greenpeace as well as Outdoor Photographer, Outdoor & Nature Photography,
Newsweek, National Geo../graphic, Audubon, Wilderness and other magazines.
Karen Huntt Mason - Karen Huntt Mason has been with Corbis for four years where she manages the Bellevue Images Editing Group. Before
joining Corbis, Karen freelanced as a picture editor and researcher in the Washington, D.C. area. Her clients included the U.S. Information
Agency, U.S. News and World Report, the National Geo../graphic book division and others. Karen also spent six years with the National
Geo../graphic Society and was a news photographer and commercial photographer's studio assistant. She enjoys shooting and recently dusted off
her camera to document her family.
Patricia McGlaufin - Patricia is the general manager of Animals Animals/Earth Scenes, where she has worked for the past 12 years. For the
last six, Patricia has served as editor of the photo library. She supervises the agency's research department, giving her a strong awareness of client
needs. She also coordinates and selects images for production of advertisements, mailings and catalogs, including its current one, Volume 3.
Patricia enjoys the creativity and individual style of each photographer she has selected for representation by Animals Animals.
Arthur Morris - More than 8,000 of Arthur Morris's images are published in natural history books, magazines and calendars worldwide. He is
one of North America's premier bird photographers whose images are noted for artistic design as well as technical excellence. Art is the author of
four books. The most recent, The Art of Bird Photography: A Complete Guide to Professional Field Techniques, is published by Amphoto. In
1997, two of Art's images were awarded prizes in the prestigious British Gas "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition and were featured
in "Portfolio Seven." He is a contributing photographer with Bird Watcher's Digest. He has been a Canon contract photographer for the past four
years, appearing in an EOS 1N commercial and on four episodes of the "Canon Photo Safari". A gallery exhibit of Art's work will hang at the
Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York, in the summer of 1999.
Ray Pfortner - Ray Pfortner serves as magazine and publisher liaison for Art Wolfe, Inc., an in-house stock photo agency representing the work
of nature/wildlife photographer Art Wolfe and his assistant Gavriel Jecan. Ray is an accomplished photographer who specializes in environmental
issue photography, ranging from water pollution and hazardous waste sites to recycling and habitat restoration. Ray's images have been published
widely in books and advertising as well as in magazines such as GEO (Germany), SINRA (Japan), Terre Sauvage (France), Natural History,
International Wildlife and Audubon. Before joining Art Wolfe, Inc., Ray worked as a stock photography consultant to wildlife photographer
Kennan Ward and at Minden Pictures, a stock photo agency representing the work of five National Geo../graphic nature photographers. He was
vice-president and partner at Peter Arnold, Inc., which continues to represent his stock.
Tracy Richards - After graduating with degrees in photography and art history, Tracy was hired by Panoramic Images in Chicago in 1992,
where she's worked as photo researcher, account representative and photo editor -- giving her a well-rounded view of the marketplace. Today, as
director of photography, Tracy is the primary contact for 150 contract photographers and is responsible for bringing new talent into the agency.
She reviews and selects images for inclusion in PI's files as well as their catalogs. Tracy has given photographer seminars at The International
Association of Panoramic Photographers World Conferences and is speaking at Photo Expo East in New York City this fall as part of a group
panel discussing "The Masters of Stock," a seminar to explore stock agencies and their relationships with photographers.
Dave Ross - Dave Ross has worked as a senior picture editor in Corbis's Media Development/Image Editing department for three years where he
has edited a wide variety of stock and commissioned photography for the Corbis digital collection, CD-ROMs, catalogues and on-line
publications. Prior to Corbis, Dave was senior picture researcher for five years and illustrations editor for an additional five years at the National
Geo../graphic Society Book Division. Dave also freelanced as a picture researcher/editor for Smithsonian, Scientific American, USIA and other
publications. He began his career in 1981 as a staff picture researcher for an eight-book continuity series at U.S. News and World Report Books.
Robin Simmen - Robin Simmen has been editing nature photography books for 13 years and is currently the senior editor at Amphoto Books,
an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications. She is currently working on AMERICAN VISION: Images by the Best of Today's Amateur Nature
Photographers with a Foreword by George Lepp and Lessons by John Shaw, David Middleton, Bill Fortney and Wayne Lynch. AMERICAN
VISION will be published in May 1999.
Doug Weschler - Doug Weschler is Director of VIREO (Visual Resources for Ornithology), the Academy of Natural Sciences' worldwide
collection of bird photographs. Over the last 11 years he has reviewed many thousands of bird photographs by hundreds of photographers. He
also markets VIREO's photographs and travels to remote tropical forests to photograph birds for the collection. Doug has 15 years of professional
nature photography experience, with his photographs appearing in Audubon, International Wildlife, Natural History, Smithsonian and hundreds
of other publications, exhibits, calendars, and CD-ROMs. He is author/photographer of Bizarre Bugs and the upcoming book, Bizarre Birds.
