NZIPP Proreport Feb 2014 by NZIPP NZ Institute of Professional Photography

Kelvin Gilbert - ANZIPP Winner - Illustrative Photographer of the Year 2013

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Contents

FEBRUARY 2014

Executive Updates

Cover Image: © Kelvin Gilbert - ANZIPP Winner - Illustrative Photographer of the Year 2013

Presidents Report

Commercial Directors Report

Portrait Directors Report

Wedding Directors Report

Honours Council Report

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Michael Kenna - Keynote Speaker

NZIPP News

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Q Dates for 2014

New Accredited Members

NZIPP on Facebook

Iris Award Books

Returned Servicemen Project

World Photographic Cup

Ilford Diary

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Contents

Contents Regional Updates 23

Auckland/Northland Region

Waikato/BOP Region

Otago/Southland Region

Photo Competitions 28

International Photography Awards

Classified 29

Camera For Sale

Corporate Members 29

Thanks to our Corporate Members

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Happy New Year to you all and what a fantastic way to start the year than to be able to announce the awesome achievements by our Photographers at the World Photographic Cup announced in Phoenix in January. Even though we didn’t achieve a Podium place, we had four photographers in the top ten in four out of the six categories. They were:

Mike Hollman in Reportage,

Richard Wood in Illustrative/ Digital Art

Paul Daly in Commercial

Catherine Cattanach in Portrait

Well done to you all from all of us on the NZIPP Board. You have done us proud. Thanks also need to be given to Catherine Cattanach who kindly represented us at the event. We also featured very well in the teams competition being finalists in Reportage, Illustrative, Commercial and Portrait. Congratulations also need to be given to our Australian counterparts who achieved first place in the portrait category by Kelly Brown and the wedding category by Nick Ghionis. Australia was also second overall in the team event. Well done the AIPP! All of this just goes to show that out of all the countries in the world we were consistently up there with the best, across most categories. Believe it or not, now is the best time to start your preparation to attend this years ‘Iris Awards’ and ‘Infocus Conference’ in Wellington between July 30 and August 4. The Board have been working hard to bring you the best speakers available covering a diverse range of topics that will both educate and inspire you. Details of these will be available shortly so mark these dates in your diaries and start putting money in your print Judging and Conference funds account. Together lets make this the best year ever for the Institute and remember our mission statement. We are here ‘To Champion, embrace and communicate excellence and professionalism in photography’

Mike Langford - NZIPP President Hon FNZIPP, GMNZIPP, Hon F AIPP, MAIPP

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Hope your year has started well for you! Procrastination (a “not to” new years resolution!) I have just read a blog by Perry Marshall on www.entrepreneur.com, where he talks about our inner procrastinator and how unproductive the habit can make us! This is something that I know I am guilty of every day, although I often call it “getting side tracked” I have already spent more time than I should procrastinating over writing this pro report article. So why do we do procrastinate? It seems that the things we should be doing are often the things that we procrastinate over the most, in other words the things that make us feel uncomfortable or are a bit of a chore. Like calling that client who is overdue paying our invoice, or getting out and visiting potential clients with our portfolio. Have a read of Perry’s article http://www.entrepreneur.com/ article/230962#ixzz2rA1qJVsP On a different note, why should this surprise me…? Usually I am not one to moan and groan about our lot. But I am going to have a wee vent about a website (no, I am not naming names) that I came across a few days ago. A group of New Zealand photographers that promote themselves as being “the good guys” because ‘unlike many other commercial photographers’ they do NOT keep the copyright to ANY images they shoot for clients and do not charge usage rights…doh! Of course they can do what they like, it’s not regulated by law. What really irks me is that they are using this as a sales ploy. I personally think this is cheap and underhand and has complete disrespect for our industry. As always, I’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts on what you would like to see featured in Pro-report. So email me: terry@nzphotos.co.nz

Terry Wreford Hann NZIPP Commercial Director

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Happy new year to all you winners. Well that’s what we all could be according to the soothsayers in the media right now. The supposed new optimism is backed by a record retail spend over the holiday period & as I read the finance section this morning an all time credit card debt over the population. Let’s hope they haven’t spent it all & have left some for us. So maybe it’s a good time to go over some of the basics again so that we might increase our chances. Once you have got clients communicating with you, from this point maximising the opportunity is up to you. The best result for both parties is that they get what they want. It all starts with asking the client what their objectives from the session are. Mostly clients only mention combinations at this point which is a good start. However it’s up to us to add meat to bones of this thinking. Specifically getting them to concentrate on where the art is going to hang. If they avoid committing to an answer “ let’s just see what they look like first “ it’s pretty reasonable to ask that we should shoot to a purpose i.e. would a landscape be preferable or close up or would they like some environment included etc. Further gentle prodding here gets them thinking that this is not a game, that it’s a team effort and above all as a professional you are working toward the best result for them. Of course shooting & hoping as I have often mentioned is not ideal. There is nothing more annoying than sitting in a viewing session eliminating all your hard work after they have fun checking themselves out only to settle on a free one or minimum order. This is a waste of your time in both the shoot & the sale & if it happens is your fault not theirs, unless they lied to you in the first place. Fully educating the clients of your prices before the shoot helps hone their thinking & gives you a reference point to reinforce the potential spend. You don’t want to have to pull the smelling salts out in the sales room. Knowing what to shoot with your clients comfortable that they are going to be able to invest in their comfort zone makes for a happy relationship. When you concentrate your efforts to filling a $500 order or a $5000.00 order whatever is appropriate there is no bubbling resentment on our part that we have wasted our valuable creative energy to no avail. In portraiture please try hard this year to not just shoot & burn. Take a digital file off your price list so that if you need to it’s there as bargaining chip at the end of your sale. As a bone fide quality provider I just can’t get my head around the lack of perceived value in a disc only scenario. Where is the magic in the hand over when it’s just a disc? How does it compare to a staff member wearing white gloves handling their new artwork with care & demonstrating the status we should be giving their investment. Finally remember to love yourself by being kind to yourself with your booking times. If you don’t do too many sittings, book them in blocks so that your free time is in blocks too. This is lifestyle & lifestyle is a wealth in its own right. People still need choice but give them either or, not either or and. Don’t let your clients run your life because that’s what happens when you ask the question “ When would you like to come in ?” It reeks of desperation because that’s a seven day choice & who wants to live a life like that. What magnificent weather we are having . Enjoy the light, use the light & watch out for those ratios !

Russell Hamlet NZIPP Portrait Director PRO REPORT Member Magazine of the NZIPP

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Happy New Year everyone!! I trust you are all looking forward to an exciting and prosperous 2014. That time of the year has just passed… New Years resolutions, it’s time to set new goals and reassess the progress of your existing goals. So go ahead if you haven’t already, get them out on paper, (don’t forget a BHAG), and create a plan to achieve your goals. Personally this year I’ve decided to start by simplifying my New Years resolutions…. That damn one that I fail every year has been finally scrubbed off my list. It’s the ever elusive “work life balance”. I’m pretty sick and tired of every year utterly failing with that resolution year in year out. So for now it’s been replaced with one that’s much more achievable for me…. For 2014 I plan to ‘celebrate the chaos of life’. It’s simply my mindset that I plan to change. So next time sitting in the office until 3 in the morning seems like a great idea, ….that is until I am struggling out of bed when the kids coming jumping on me at 6 in the morning, I will no longer feel like I’m a hopeless failure…ha!... Now there’s nothing quite like a busy January to test the waters, and so far so good, my resolution is going strong. Life is busy, that is a fact for most of you. Being time starved and busy isn’t mutually exclusive to any of us, most of us feel the same pressure. Now don’t get me wrong, ‘celebrating the chaos’ doesn’t mean letting everything get out of hand. A plan, and structure are still imperative. Over the years we have found in our business keeping a few simple things in check makes a big difference to the chaotic times; 1. Keep on top of your database. Having a well maintained database will be a huge help and if you don’t have one it won’t take long to come unstuck. The more information you have at your fingertips for each and every prospect, customer, client, supplier and business affiliate the better for you. Even if your business is in it’s infancy and you have just a handful of clients, now is the best time to get started. 2. Get your pre-made emails organized. If you have had to write a similar email more than once, that is a good enough reason to build a premade email signature outlining the text. Every year in your quiet time spend the time to go through each of those signatures re-assess and check to see what should be adjusted. 3. If you send out anniversary cards, birthday cards, or Christmas cards to your clients, do it when it in your quiet time, have them all addressed and ready, separate by week or month so all you have to do is drop them in the post box. Create promotions ahead of time, and have advertising material all ready to go. 4. Use an account management program. We’re photographers not accountants. Minimise the time you spend on accounts, lets face it, it’s terribly dull. A small monthly investment gets you the software that will make your life a whole lot easier. 5. Separate creative time and time to work on the business aspects of your business. Ask yourself, what time of the day are you at your creative peak. And create a plan that ensures you aren’t sitting writing emails, doing accounts or checking Facebook at this time of the day, and can focus uninterrupted on being creative.

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6. Under promise, over deliver. If you plan to have a job ready in 3 weeks, tell the client 4 weeks… they’ll be thrilled with your efficiency when you deliver early, but if you have the option of cutting yourself a little slack if you need too. 7. Priority lists, workflow charts, to-do apps, job sheets… find one that works for you and stick to it. Then re-evaluate annually, as it can nearly always be improved. We’ve dabbled in pretty much every option to find the solution that fits our needs best. 8. Diarise your personal time and commit to it. There’s always work to do when you have your own business, work only stops when you say it stops. Get personal plans written in your calendar to make sure they don’t get forgotten about….especially when it’s busy. 9. Attitude adjustment. We heard a really sweet story a few years back and it’s kind of stuck with us. A friend came to stay with his American girlfriend and she told us the sweetest story about her Grandparents. Married for 50 years, and at 5:00pm every day, they would stop what they were doing sit down with a cocktail for an hour and just relax. We all need to stop and have an attitude adjustment at times. Pick your attitude adjustment, maybe it’s not a cocktail but just half an hour of fresh air. And use it to keep going strong and to stay productive. So go ahead, if you haven’t already. Set your resolutions, then get your big goals out on the table, it feels oh so good. Write them down, otherwise it is just a dream. And let 2014 be an exciting year for making your goals a reality!

Katherine Williams NZIPP Wedding Director

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On Creativity … “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” Dr. Seuss Now that we’ve made it through another festive season, hopefully without too much extra weight gain from all the extra food and drink we tend to consume, it’s time to hit the road running in preparation for the year ahead. We all know how fast last year seemed to roll by (a good sign that we’re getting older), so perhaps a word of advice - it’s never too early to energise those creative brain cells and start planning for this year’s awards. If, however, you tend to struggle in the creativity department, take heart and dig deep, it is there! On a per capita basis, New Zealand would have to be one of the most creative countries in the world (photographically that is). Evidence of this comes from how well NZIPP representatives performed in the recent World Photographic Cup, with Mike Hollman, Catherine Cattanach, Richard Wood and Paul Daly all placing in the top ten of their categories. Congratulations to you all!! Something to consider if you want to ‘work’ at your creativity is in taking on a personal project, one that is quite separate from your day-to-day work. While it may not be for everyone, there are so many out there who have gained so much by doing so. But remember, creativity is not linear; it is a cyclical and continuous process of experimentation, testing and evaluation. In addition, creativity requires nurturing and pushing in order to succeed. There is endless information out there on developing creativity, but in reality it’s more about jumping in feet first and just doing something new and different, and seeing where it may lead you. The awards therefore become a great outlet and platform for testing your creativity, where you have the luxury of getting feedback from some of the most respected people in the industry. So, with planning under way on our end, we hope that you’re all feeding those creative hunger pangs and allowing ideas to manifest, to bring about some fantastic work come judging. For anyone needing a little extra push, check out the “creativity” info on the opposite page.

And other things … In just over a week, Honours will have their first face-to-face meeting since last year’s awards. This will be a special meeting as we welcome Esther Bunning onto Honours. With her wealth of experience and knowledge around NZIPP and the awards, we are really excited and look forward to having Esther as part of the team. On behalf of the Honours Council, including: Ollie Dale, Blair Quax, Tony Stewart and Esther Bunning. Kind Regards

Kaye Davis - GMNZIPP, MAIPP, MCGD Chair of the NZIPP Honours Council)

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HOW

Creativity is just connecting things. Steve Jobs

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wait for the eureka

Out of nowhere an idea will appear. It’ll happen when you least expect it, so be ready for it. keep a notebook handy to write down or *.)"23#"3)#'4)!*#5#6-7#89:;<#3!=)#"-#,)# an artist to create simple drawings, stick /%7>)*#?->.#@7*"#!*#?)00#111

What happens here isn’t a mechanical technique, but genuine creativity. The more you link concepts the easier the “ah-ha” moment will come.

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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think is still the secret of creative people. Leo Burnett

don’T think

Let your thoughts unconciously bubble away. Drop the problem completely and turn to something else that stimulates your imagination. Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. Ray Bradbury

bring the idea to reality

Now submit the idea to criticisms. get feedback from someone you trust, who has the right experience and .(-?0)4%)#"-#3)0A#6-7#111

Be pragmatic when adapting the idea as a viable creative solution.

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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono

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Sift through the gathered information and look at them in different lights. Bring them together and see how they do and don’t link.

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DIGEST

use a scrapbook to collect images, look !"#$!%!&'()*+#,--.*+#/0$*#111

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E V I T A E R C

Don’t sit around waiting for inspiration to strike - be curious. Browse different sorts of information. !"#$%&'(%)%&"*'+),-&."#+-)'"/'0%**'"/'/1%2+32' information ... Read widely and have an interest in everything around you.

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GATHER THE RAW MATERIALS

Information taken from: http://dashburst.com/infographic/steps-to-being-creative/

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New to Honours Council…..Introducing Esther Bunning When I got asked to provide a short bio, I confess my first thought, which I voiced, was to shy away from that request…unnecessary! However I’m proud to have been a member of the NZIPP since 1995, which was the first year I entered the award system as a rookie. I’m now delighted to be part of the Honours Council, and I truly feel it is an honour indeed. I’m married to Terry Hann (Commercial Director NZIPP) and we live in an old, tired - albeit rather lovely - mini-mansion in South Wairarapa. We’re approximately 50 minutes drive, on a good day, from Wellington. We have a son Theo, aged 8 and a half. After 18 years of photographing weddings I gave that away a few years ago and now concentrate on my portraiture and illustrative work. At times I’ve plateaued with my photography, at times I’ve moved forward - mostly I’ve loved it, but other times I could have given it away in an instance. However I am still learning, and about myself as much as the industry. And during the last six months I’ve decided to invest in business advice for an area of work I want to delve into more, and the learning is currently off the scale (not least, taking me out of my comfort zone)…challenging and scary! Our industry has been in constant change for as long as I’ve been a photographer, and there is no doubt that it will continue to change and evolve. None of us can predict where it is heading however it was Gregory Heisler’s talk last year, in particular his finishing address that brought home the reality to me that it is the ‘newbies’ - the younger generations - who are going to be the ones to watch as to where this industry is heading. I’m a great believer in adapting and evolving if we want to stay current and relevant in this industry and make a living from it, and currently I couldn’t be more excited about the future. Have a read of Kaye’s column and remember why you entered this industry in the first place. If we don’t have a passion for what we do, then it can be an uphill battle. Experiment to find your own voice, be true to your own vision - even if it differs from the mainstream. Be creative - as much in business as in image-making. Your future may depend on it.

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INFOCUS 2014

2014 WELLINGTON

Introducing Keynote Speaker - Michael Kenna Michael Kenna has been looking at our world in ways quite out of the ordinary for forty years. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. With night-time exposures of up to ten hours, his photographs often record details that the human eye is not able to perceive. Kenna’s photographic prints have been shown in over six hundred gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the world, and are included in such permanent collections as The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Over fifty monographs and exhibition catalogs have been published on Kenna’s work, including; Michael Kenna - A Twenty Year Retrospective (Treville, 1994 and Nazraeli, 2000); Impossible to Forget (Marval and Nazraeli, 2001); Japan (Nazraeli and Treville, 2003); Retrospective Two (Nazraeli, and Treville, 2004); Michael Kenna – A Retrospective (BnF, 2009); and Immagini del Settimo Giorno (Skira, 2010). In 2001, Kenna was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. Born in Widnes, England in 1953, he currently lives in Seattle, Washington, USA. He continues to travel and photograph throughout the world. Website: www.michaelkenna.com

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NZIPP News NZIPP - RETURNED SERVICEMEN DOCUMENTARY PROJECT 2014 Hi Everyone, Last year Chris Trail and Tony Stewart floated an idea; to have NZIPP members from around the country photograph New Zealandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s returned service men as a project for the World Wars centenary. The NZIPP board presented this idea to the Royal New Zealand Returned Services Association, which is the umbrella group for RSA branches throughout the country, and they have agreed to support the Institute with this rather unique opportunity. In December, NZIPP President Mike Langford asked if I would be project coordinator for this event, and now we are in the process of asking questions, putting ideas together and determining how this project can be made to work effectively for everyone involved, including the NZIPP, individual photographers and the RSA veterans and their families. Recently I met online with David Moger and Stacey Merrifield from the RNZRSA and from that meeting I learnt that the RSA in New Zealand has over 105,000 members, of which 15,000 members qualify as Returned Service personnel. My hunch is the NZIPP will not attempt to photograph all 15,000 returned service personnel as part of this project, and instead chose to concentrate on the remaining World War II veterans as their priority. Another interesting fact is that there are 182 RSA branches around New Zealand, including Kaitaia and the Bluff. We are currently asking RSA branches around New Zealand how many WWII veterans are likely to be at each of the 182 ANZAC services occurring on April 25th, and how many veterans in aged care might also want to be photographed for the project. I am hoping to get these answers by mid February, and this should help define how we assign photographers from each area to the different RSAs. There has been discussion, both with the NZIPP and the RNZRSA, about how we connect photographers with veterans, and for the moment ANZAC day seems like the best starting point for everyone. It is the one occasion when veterans put on their uniforms and gather for dawn service, and this is usually followed by breakfast or morning tea at the local RSA hall. The morning tea will probably be the best opportunity for photographers to setup a small setting in the corner of the hall and invite each veteran to spend a few moments having their portrait made. These photos represent the first stage of the project, with the aim being simply to make one portrait of each veteran against a rather dark, neutral background. We want these photographs to have a common appearance, both in styling, pose and feel. These colour photographs will be gifted as a collection to the RNZRSA in both print and digital form. Those veterans who are not at the ANZAC service, but would like to be photographed can coordinate with the photographer to be photographed at their place of residence.

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While making portraits of the veterans on ANZAC day, photographers can take this opportunity to decide who they would like ask to be part of the second stage of this project, which is to make a more personal, crafted portrait of a veteran. Ideally we would like these portraits to be more environmental, possibly in a documentary style. It could reflect on the veteran’s own story, or the place where they have lived or even their place in society. The image could be made on ANZAC Day with members of the public visible in the background, or it could be made on the farm or street where the individual grew up. You might include one or two members of the veteran’s family (i.e. wife or grandchild), or you might include another veteran who your subject served with in combat. The options are rather limitless. It is this second stage of the project that will become the main showcase of this project for the NZIPP. It is our hope that as part of the WW100 celebrations in 2015, an exhibition of these portraits can be displayed in galleries or public spaces about New Zealand. Already the RNZRSA have suggested that this exhibition could eventually tour RSAs about New Zealand. Now there is a third aspect to this project that I have floated with the NZIPP, and I would like your thoughts on. I have proposed that while we have photographers attending ANZAC day, we should look at making a few additional images, along the lines of a “Day in the Life” project. Perhaps the key photo that I would like each photographer to try and achieve is a unique photograph of the bugler (trumpet player) at each service, either before, during or after they have played the Last Post. This image could be a portrait of the musician, or it could be a documentary style photograph. The bugler could be standing front and centre in the frame, or they might be silhouetted in the background against a foreground of service personnel. In addition to this there is the opportunity to capture the usual elements of ANZAC day, from the crowd scenes through to a photo of the obligatory asparagus rolls. Again, it is our hope this possible third facet of the project could be another showcase project for the NZIPP, either as an exhibition or possibly even a published work. For the moment I would just like people to answer a simple Yes/No poll in the Header section on the NZIPP Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/NZIPP) to let us know if you think this third element of the project is a good idea or not. It is your call. One last comment was made in the meeting with the RNZRSA, and that was to do with how this event gets promoted. By law, the RSA and ANZAC labels cannot be used for commercial advantage and so we need to be exceptionally careful about how this project is promoted to the media and the public. I have been asked that ALL communications on this project be first signed off by the RNZRSA, including media releases. I will put together media releases in advance of the project to let the public know what we are doing. I am, however, wary of trying to seek too much publicity in advance of the project. For one thing, there is a chance it will inspire non-NZIPP photographers and camera clubbers to try and create their own projects about ANZAC day, which could possibly interfere with what we are trying to achieve. I also think it is a good idea to have the work in hand before we sing too loudly about what we are doing. If these images are strong enough, the NZIPP will get the attention it deserves. On a last note, it is still not to late too put your name down to be part of this project, particularly if you live near Kaitaia or the Bluff! All the best for now, Anthony McKee ANZAC Project Co Ordinator E: contact@anthonymckee.com

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NZIPP News NZ ENTRY - 2014 WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC CUP In early September 2013 the NZIPP was invited to represent New Zealand and participate in the inaugural World Photographic Cup. The WPC is judged across 6 categories - Commercial, Illustrative/Digital Art, Landscape, Portrait, Reportage/Photojournalism, and Wedding. With each country able to submit up to three images per category. To enable the NZIPP to submit the very best images from our top New Zealand photographers, images awarded a Gold or Gold Distinction from the 2012 and 2013 Iris Awards were selected for a judge off. The judge off was conducted under similar rules and scoring to the Iris Awards by five experienced Iris Award judges, who selected the following 18 images for entry into the World Photographic Cup. New Zealand was also invited to submit a judge for the international jury, with Russell Hamlet given the honour. International judging was completed in the later part of 2013, with the results being announced at Imaging USA, in Phoenix, Arizona in mid January 2014. Over 400 images from 22 national teams were entered in the 2014 World Photographic Cup, with Paul Daly, Richard Wood, Catherine Cattanach, and Mike Hollman being selected in the final 10 in their respective categories. More information and results can be found at www.worldphotographiccup.org.

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NZIPP News LETTER FROM WPC CEO - GIUSEPPE SCOZZI We are still full of enthusiasm after the extremely successful event we celebrated at Phoenix, USA: the inaugural edition of the World Photographic Cup. It has been an exciting moment for professional photography around the world. Each and all of you played an important role accepting, initiating and realizing this project, and we need to thank once again the 22 national associations and their team members and coordinators, our 15 European judges, and our WPC Governing committee members, including Jorgen Brandt from Denmark, Dennis Craft and Don Dickson from the United States, Don MacGregor from Canada, Neil Warner from Ireland, our newest member Bruno Vetters from Belgium and our Judging Chairman Martin Vrabko for the tremendous amount of work and untold hours of preparation and dedication. We planned to include new organizational partners since the next edition, specifically from Asia and Oceania and this will increase the recognition of the project around the world. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to thank all the international delegates which attended the event, from America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, and of course all our finalists and medalists. We also need to give our grateful thanks to the founding members : the Federation of European Photographers, which largely contributed to the success of the event providing the project with a secretariat and with 16 national entries from Europe, and, finally, to Professional Photographers of America - headed by President Ralph Romaguera and CEO David Trust, for hosting the event impeccably, and for their wonderful welcome, organization and support. Good job, mates. It will be really difficult for everybody around the globe to maintain your standard of professionalism, dedication and efficiency. Bravo PPA! Now, we kindly invite you to visit the WPC website (http://worldphotographiccup.org/) and to watch the videotape of the 2014 WPC Ceremony, including an explication of the rules, and presentations of all the medalists and finalists and their winning pictures! Please circulate this video and all related pictures and information within your members. If you like, you may also post a comment on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/worldphotographiccup). The WPC has been unanimously considered as the most amazing project to promote the best professional photographers worldwide, and we are yet working on the next edition. In the meanwhile, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s congratulate the Team USA to win the World Photographic Cup 2014, with 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals! Congratulations to Team Australia, who reached the second place, with 2 golden medals, and Team Portugal which held the flag of Europe achieving the third position, including 1 gold and 1 silver medal. After Canada being in the fourth position, with 1 gold and 1 bronze medal, we should also congratulate Finland, which got the 5th position, including a gold medal in the commercial category. Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany and UK also got a silver medal each, while Austria and France also got a bronze medal each, which is a difficult accomplishment. Just consider that 22 countries were competing and remember, there were only 18 medals , so any top 3 finish is something to be very proud of.

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Congratulations, of course, to all our World Photographic Cup individual medalists (top 3 on each category) and finalists (4th to 10th place in the rank). You have made the first World Photographic Cup a huge success! You can find the complete list and the picturesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gallery on the World Photographic Cup website. We like to mention now, to a round of applause, all our medalists. CONGRATULATIONS TO: PORTRAIT

LANDSCAPE

Kelly Brown, Australia, Golden Medal

Eve Turek, USA, Golden Medal

Simon Mackney, UK, Silver Medal

Martin Steenhaut, Belgium, Silver Medal

Nathan Ham, USA, Bronze Medal

Susie Crichton, Canada, Bronze Medal

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Nick Ghionis, Australia, Golden Medal

Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Finland, Golden Medal

Miguel Araujo, Portugal, Silver Medal

Randi Van Duinen, USA, Silver Medal

Tomas Munoz, USA, Bronze Medal

Helge Kirchberger, Austria, Bronze Medal

ILLUSTRATIVE / DIGITAL ART

REPORTAGE/PHOTOJOURNALISM

Manuel Diamantino Jesus , Portugal, Golden Medal

Dave Holland, Canada, Golden Medal

Uli Staiger, Germany, Silver Medal

MiloĹĄ Fic, Czech Republic, Silver Medal

Ben Shirk, USA, Bronze Medal

Bruno Mayor, France, Bronze Medal

Teams Denmark, Georgia, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Slovakia and Spain also had at least one finalist individual team member. Good job, all of you, and a spur to do even better next year!

Till the next venue and future calendar will be announced, best wishes to you all, regards, and ciao! Giuseppe

Giuseppe Scozzi WPC, Chief Executive Officer

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Ilford Diary February 2014

Otago/Southland Social Get Together

Southern Sub Branch Meeting

Waikato/BOP Regional Meeting

NZIPP Policy & Planning Meeting

Otago/Southland Q Workshop

Canterbury/Westland Regional Meeting

Auckland/Northland Regional Meeting & BBQ

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March 2014

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Waikato/BOP Regional AGM

Auckland/Northland Regional Meeting

Canterbury/Westland Regional Meeting

TBC Central Districts Regional Meeting TBC Wellington Regional Meeting

April 2014

Otago/Southland Regional Meeting

Canterbury/Westland Regional Meeting & AGM

Southern Sub Branch Meeting

TBC Auckland/Northland Regional Meeting TBC Central Districts Regional Meeting TBC Wellington Regional Meeting

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget, if you are travelling around New Zealand, as an NZIPP member you can go to any NZIPP Regional Meeting. If you are in the area, take the opportunity to participate in a regional meeting outside your own region. CLICK ON A DIARY ENTRY FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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Regional Updates Upcoming Meeting…

Auckland/Northland Region

Auckland/Northland Regional Meeting & BBQ

Seasons greetings, we are now well into the New Year and as a committee we’ve been busy planning and brainstorming our future meetings.

Venue: 27 Robinsons Rd, Coatsville, Auckland

We are looking at kicking off our first official meeting of 2014 with a BBQ at Russell Hamlet’s Coatsville Studio, this will be followed by Ollie Dale who’ll be sharing some insights into his recent trip to Africa. As always we welcome members from all the other regions to attend as well.

Date: February 19th, 2014

On a final note we are currently looking for committee members, so if your interested in joining or just have questions let me know, it’s a great way to contribute and to influence the Auckland region. So as we put 2013 behind us and welcome in 2014 I hope you all have a successful and prosperous year, not just professionally but personally as well. And I look forward to catching up with everyone through out the year.

Gino Demeer Auckland/Northland - Regional Chairperson

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Regional Updates Waikato BOP NZIPP 11 FEBRUARY MEETING PechaKucha the art of concise presentations For our ﬁrst meeting of 2014 we introduce "Pechakucha" !20 x 20 (20 slides up for 20 seconds each) which equals a presentation of just over 6 minutes per person. PechaKucha Nights are informal and fun gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts and images. PechaKucha presentations are the ones that uncover the unexpected. Some PechaKuchas tell great stories about a project or a trip. Some are incredibly personal, some are incredibly funny, but all are very different, and they turn each PechaKucha Night into “a box of chocolates.” Featuring the following 8 photographers from our Waikato & BOP region

Bob Tulloch

Craig Robertson

Sarah Beaufoy

Kerry Grant

Tracey Robinson

Chris Parker

Nicola Inglis

Kim Howells

Each photographer has selected a photography topic close to their heart to present in a fun format. It will be fast & fantastic! All welcome. Tuesday 11 February Meeting is at 5.30pm - Meet for Dinner & Drinks (own cost) - Pig & Whistle Cnr Haupapa & Tutanekai Sts, ROTORUA 7.00pm - Meeting starts Pig & Whistle Upstairs

AGM - Tuesday 11 March - Tauranga 24

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HOBBITON PARTY BUSINESS! Great fun was had at the NZIPP Waikato BOP Christmas & Awards Party at Middle Earth!. CONGRATULATIONS to all our award recipients - the grand title taken out by Jake Thomas who is our 2013 NZIPP Waikato BOP Image Awards Regional Photographer of the year.

All images supplied by little hobbits, elves, smaug and other creatures from the Shire with cameras!

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Regional Updates Upcoming Meetings… Canterbury/Westland Regional Meeting with speaker Stephen Goodenough Venue: TBC, Christchurch Date: February 18th, 2014

Canterbury/Westland Region Hi All, As many of you will know, Ron Thow has decided to step down as regional chair. The regional committee would like to publicly thank Ron Thow for his contribution over almost two years in the role. Last week you will have also received an email stating that Kate Christie would step in as acting chair. After this message was sent it was realised that Kate is yet to get a “Q”. As this is generally seen as a prerequisite to being elected to the position, the committee have met and unanimously decided that as there are only a couple of months left before the AGM, the regional committee (Ann Worthy-Stephenson, Erin McLean, Kate Christie, Rebecca Watson and Richard Linton) will arrange regional activities until a new chair is elected at the regional AGM, which will be on 7 April. Plans were developed for the first half of this year, put these dates in your dairies: Tuesday, 18 February (evening) - Location Lighting Techniques Mini-Workshop with Stephen Goodenough - see below for details Monday, 17 March (evening) - a not to be missed event, full details to be announced very soon Monday, 7 April (evening) - Regional AGM with guest speaker/photographer Matt Greenslade who lives/works in New York If you have any suggestions or comments for the committee please do get in touch. We are also on the hunt for at least one exceptional individual who is willing to put their hand up and be nominated as the new regional chairperson. If you need to contact the committee please use this new email address: nzipp.cantwest@gmail.com

Regards, Ann Worthy-Stephenson, Erin McLean, Kate Christie, Rebecca Watson & Richard Linton Canterbury/Westland - Regional Committee

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Upcoming Meetingsâ&#x20AC;Ś Otago/Southland Social Get Together

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Otago/Southland Region

Venue: Pig & Whistle Pub, Queenstown

In Otago / Southland we are looking forward to another great year, have lots planned and would love any members visiting the area to get in touch and come along to one of our regular get togethers.

Date: February 4th, 2014

This year in Queenstown we are introducing regular Social get togethers. Dinner and drinks from approx. 5 - 7.30 on the 1st Tuesday of every month.

Southern Sub Branch Meeting

Every second one will be followed by an NZIPP meeting.

Venue: Contact Rochelle rdphotography@hotmail.co.nz for details

The first one will be 4th Feb at http://www.pigandwhistlepub.co.nz/

Date: February 10th, 2014

Fortnightly Dunedin coffee meetings are still going ahead regularly please contact Alan: alan@ dovephotography.co.nz for details.

At meetings this year we will be bringing back the popular Image Critiquing for those interested in feedback and introducing Pecha Kucha style presentations and will be inviting members to have a turn! Details of speakers will be kept update in The Ilford Diary as they are confirmed. There is now a Southern Sub-Branch, which is holding regular meetings and planning an overnight trip in May as well as exhibitions and even have a date for their Christmas function already! Please contact Rochelle: rdphotography@hotmail.co.nz for details to get along to those.

Hope to see your faces again soon.

Emily Adamson Otago/Southland - Regional Co Chairperson

Otago/Southland Christmas Party

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Photo Competitions

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Photo Competitions The NZIPP does not endorse any of the following competitions. Anyone interested in entering these or any other competitions should read the rules of entry carefully to ensure that the moral rights of the photographer are not being undermined in anyway. If you do come across any competitions where the copyright is demanded by the organisers, please send details to: marketing@nzipp.org.nz

Entries Close: 30th March 2014 Now celebrating its eleventh year, the International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non-professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today. Click here for more information.

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