NPAC Conference 2019 - All You Need to Know!

[Ali Ledgerwood]

Hey everybody!

I am pleased to announce the latest and greatest for those planning to attend Photojournalism 2019 in beautiful downtown Vancouver on April 11-13, 2019. Another great weekend of learning, inspiration, awards, networking and involvement with Canada’s largest group of photojournalists. You don’t want to miss out!



REGISTERING
You can register for the conference and also get your NPAC 2018 NPOY Awards tickets online by clicking http://npac.ca/store/

There are rates for NPAC members and non-members. Please note that we are offering Member conference rates to CAPIC/PPOC/CAPA.

Please note that the non-member rates include the cost of an NPAC membership and you become a member when you purchase these passes.

For those who cannot use the online payment system in the NPAC Store to purchase conference passes and NPOY Awards tickets, please mail your payments to the following:

NPAC
c/o Ali Ledgerwood
11-744 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V5Z 1B8

Of course, when doing so, please indicate which pass you are purchasing, how many NPOY award tickets you are buying, and include your name, address and an email address for our records. Please make all cheques and money orders payable to: NPAC.

Lastly, we are hooked up to Square.  So you can always bring your credit card onsite at any time and we can run payment from the phone.  Or, as always... we take cash!  We've got you covered my friends.


TRAVEL DISCOUNTS
Air Canada:  Use promotion code: TBD when you book at www.aircanada.com.

West Jet:  Use promotion code:  X3QB76S  www.westjet.com/conventions .
If you’re using a travel agent, use promocode:  X3QB76S

Air North:  www.flyairnorth.com/NPAC2019
For reservations by phone or flight inquiries please call 1-800-661-0407 x 198 (within North America) or 1-867-668-2228 ext. 198 (local).   Use code NPAC2019

Discounts vary between 5 and 15% depending from departure location.  Check the fine print.


ACCOMMODATION
Ramada Limited
435 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1V2
Phone: 604-488-1088
1-888-389-5888
Email: info@ramadadowntownvancouver.com
The block is closed, but the rate will be held.  Please contact Alina or Paul and they will confirm for you.
Rates are: $159 for Queen bed / $169 for 2 Doubles
Includes free breakfast and WiFi.


CONFERENCE ROOMS
Vancouver Film School
420 Homer Street
https://vfs.edu


OPENING NIGHT- CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL – THURSDAY, APRIL 11 @ 6PM
Pendulum Gallery
885 West Georgia Street
http://www.pendulumgallery.bc.ca

Check out the amazing work of the nominees of the National Pictures of the Year Awards.  Great way to catch up with your colleagues.  Cash bar


LEICA LOANERS  - FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Ramada Limited
435 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1V2

Wanna try out the latest and greatest of Leica gear for the day?  Here is the perfect opportunity to get hooked to some pretty awesome gear and glass.  Leica Loaners are back, baby!  First come, first serve at the Ramada lobby at 8AM.  Return the gear at the trade show.   Remember to bring a credit card (no, you can't just walk off with it) and a memory card to enjoy those sweet memories you've created, and remind yourself why you wanna buy a Leica. 


WORKSHOPS – FRIDAY, APRIL 12TH

See the program.


TRADE SHOW AND PORTFOLIO REVIEWS - FRIDAY, APRIL 12th @ 6PM
Steamworks Brewing Company – Uber Lounge
375 Water Street
http://www.steamworks.com

This is a heavily attended event that gets you a hands-on look at all the latest gear from our industry suppliers. In the same room, you can have your portfolio reviewed during one-on-one sessions with a number of experts in our field. Sign up for these 15 to 20 minute sessions at the conference on Friday. 

The following companies are confirmed to be at the Trade Show:

Beau Photo
www.beauphoto.com/
Vancouver’s favourite professional photography supplier will be on hand again this year with a ton of gear ranging from the latest digital cameras and top lighting choices to the greatest gadgets you just can’t live without. They have a lot so be prepared to spend some time at their booth.

Burke Mountain Leather
https://www.facebook.com/burkemtnleather/
Handcrafted custom leather camera straps made on beautiful Burke Mountain by Vancouver Sun/Province photographer Jason Payne.

The Camera Store
http://www.thecamerastore.com/
http://www.leica.com/
Calgary’s premier photographic outlet is a full-line dealer for the entire range of conventional and digital photographic equipment and supplies and they have the knowledge base to back it up! They are dedicated to supporting and promoting photography on a number of levels and are perennial sponsors of this conference. They don’t offer a lot of hype or fanfare, just great products, great service, great prices … great photography!

Canadian Media Guild
http://www.cmg.ca/
The Canadian Media Guild is a democratic trade union representing 6,000 workers in the Canadian media. Our members work at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada (CBC/SRC), The Canadian Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), TVO, TFO, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (aptn), ZoomerMedia, Shaw Media and CKOI Radio Gatineau (Québec). We also represent media freelancers.

Canon Canada
http://www.canon.ca/
This industry supplier of still and video cameras will be showing off their latest and greatest cameras and lenses plus other accessories. Canon is also conducting a camera clinic at our conference.

Canvas Plus
http://www.canvasplus.ca
Canvas Plus We offer fine-art reproduction services, using either digital photography or scanning techniques to capture your original artworks with enough detail to print an accurate reproduction of your original.

FujiFilm
https://www.fujifilm.ca
Fujifilm brings innovative products and solutions to a broad spectrum of industries and is committed to environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship.

Leica
http://us.leica-camera.com
Leica stands for visual enjoyment and lasting value. Our approach and unique technical expertise make our optical instruments ideal companions, offering the highest possible reliability and durability.

Nikon Canada
www.nikon.ca
The sponsor of our National Picture of the Year Sports Action category, Nikon Canada will be there, too. Of course, they’ll have their line-up of excellent cameras and accessories with knowledgeable sales staff to answer all your questions.  Nikon will also be taking your cameras in to clean up and take care of your babies.

Sony Canada
https://www.sony.ca/en
Wherever you are and whatever’s going on, a Sony α or Cyber-shot™ camera puts precision, style and convenience in your hands to capture the moment in your own unique way.


PORTFOLIO REVIEWS
Steamworks Brewing
375 Water Street

Mohamed Abdiwahab - Agence France-Presse
Tomas Ayuso - Independent
Lisa Krantz - San Antonio Express
Brian Morgan - Art Director, Maisonneuve
Graeme Roy - Director of News Photography, The Canadian Press
Frederic Seguin - Independent
Rachel Wine - Photo Editor, The Globe and Mail

More names to follow...


CAMERA CLINICS
Canon, Nikon and Sony will again be conducting their annual camera clinics on site so bring your babies in for their annual checkup early Saturday morning.


SPEAKERS

KERRY MANDERS We’re excited to announce that Kerry Manders will be joining us at the annual conference in Vancouver this April. She will be presenting a workshop on how to write successful grant applications. Kerry Manders is a Toronto-based writer, editor, and photographer whose personal projects focus on queer memory and mourning. Current work includes pieces on queer photography for the New York Times, a monthly interview series for Women Photograph, and oral histories for Toronto's West End Phoenix. As a creative for hire, she assists photographers with grant and award applications, as well as catalogue and exhibition text.

TOMAS AYUSO Tomas Ayuso is a Honduran documentary photojournalist and writer. His work focuses on Latin American conflict as it relates to the drug war, forced displacement, and urban dispossession. In covering the different types of violence facing the region’s people, he strives to create a record of both continental struggles and local successes. Tomas is a Magnum Fellow, National Geographic Grantee and has been recognized by the World Press 6x6 Global Talent Program. His work appears in National Geographic, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Getty Images, The Guardian, and others.

MOHAMED ABDIWHAB Mohamed Abdiwahab is a Somali photojournalist based in Mogadishu. He’s the main photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Somalia which is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist. Mohamed began his career, when he was 15 years old, working with local newspapers in Mogadishu. He has been working with AFP as a freelance photographer since 2011

LISA KRANTZ Lisa Krantz is a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News in San Antonio, Texas. In 2018, Lisa was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for the story of Rowan Windham, a 10-year-old who inspired others with his positive outlook on life despite battling a rare, incurable disorder. She was also a finalist in 2015 as part of a team entry on the Central American immigration crisis. Her work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International including the Community Awareness Award, second-place Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2019 and third-place Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2010 and 2015. She has twice received both the ASNE Photojournalism Award and the Scripps Howard Award for Photojournalism. World Press Photo, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, PDN Photo Annual, SPJ's Sigma Delta Chi and the National Headliner Awards have also recognized her work. She is a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year. Krantz has a psychology degree from Florida State University and a MA in photography from Syracuse University.

MARCUS YAM Marcus Yam is a Los Angeles Times staff photographer living in the beautiful City of Angels. Born and raised in tropical heat of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he is culturally and socially uninhibited, guided and inspired by Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken." At a turning point, he left a career in aerospace engineering to pursue a photographic life. His approach is deeply rooted in curiosity and persistence. He is interested in the social issues and chaos that shape the human experience. Currently he's obsessed with covering wildfires across the Golden State. Marcus was named Picture of The Year International’s Newspaper Photographer Of The Year for 2017. In 2015, he was part of the team that covered the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attacks that earned a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. In 2014, he was part of The Seattle Times team that covered the deadly landslide in Oso, Washington, that earned a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting. Marcus was based in New York, from 2010 to 2013, and worked as a regular contributor to The New York Times. His most notable work includes contributions to The Times's three-part multimedia series, Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer and A Year At War a Times series that included his feature short film, "The Home Front," which have earned him numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a World Press Photo multimedia grand prize, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, a Pictures of the Year International Multimedia Award and a DART Award for Trauma Coverage.

NPAC’s 2018 NATIONAL PICTURES OF THE YEAR GALA (SATURDAY, APRIL 13th, 2019)
The Polygon Gallery
101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver
https://thepolygon.ca

Tickets must be purchased and presented when entering the location for this amazing Saturday night event, which will be held at the gorgeous Polygon Gallery.

Winners of all the NPOY categories will be announced during this gala event including the Canadian Photojournalist of the Year sponsored by The Canadian Press and the Canadian Photograph of the Year sponsored by the Globe and Mail.   You’ll also receive your yearly edition of the Year in Review!  Doors will open at 6:00 with Hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. 

Hosted by Laura Lynch, CBC


CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
https://capturephotofest.com
Nominees for the NPOY will be a featured exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery
http://www.pendulumgallery.bc.ca   April 1 – 26, 2019. To RSVP, please email Ali at: aliledgerwood@gmail.com. 


SCOTIABANK CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com
Nominees and winners for the NPOY will be a Featured exhibition at First Canadian Place http://myfirstcanadianplace.ca/ commencing Saturday, May 13th, and will be running until Sunday, May 31st, 2019.  Opening night for CONTACT will be held on Thursday, May 16th, 2019.  To RSVP please email Ali at: aliledgerwood@gmail.com More deets to follow.


PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES
As per usual, there will be a tonne of prizes to give away, and I'll have a list updated shortly.  Remember, ya gotta be there to win!



If I'm missing anything, please let me know.  As I've said, this is a living document and will be updated regularly.

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