Nancy Wolff
Famed Photographer Jay Maisel Challenges Unlicensed Use of Photograph
Complaint, Photoworkshop.com, Inc. and Robert Farber v. Jay Maisel, (S.D.N.Y. June 8, 2009) (No. 09 Civ. 5307)
World-renowned photographer Jay Maisel has challenged the unauthorized use of one of his photographs for a series of photography books, and related promotional materials, published by Wiley Publishing in conjunction with the website Photoworkshop.com. The photograph in question is a headshot of Photoworkshop.com founder Robert Farber, and it appears in the books accompanying forewords written by Farber. Wiley Publishing and Farber argue that they have an implied license to use the photograph because Maisel provided Farber, a fellow photographer, with a copy of the photograph in question. Maisel disagrees.
In response to Maisel’s allegation of copyright infringement, Photoworkshop.com and Robert Farber filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York seeking declaratory judgment regarding their use of the photograph.
Photoworkshop.com is an interactive website dedicated to photography, which was founded by the professional photographer Robert Farber. The site is intended to provide an online community and learning opportunities for both professional and amateur photographers. In 2006, Photoworkshop entered into an agreement with Wiley Publishing, Inc. to publish a series of Photoworkshop-endorsed books on subjects such as photography, digital photography, and digital imaging. Farber, as the founder of Photoworkshop, wrote the forward for the books. In four of the Photoworkshop-endorsed books the portrait of Farber taken by Maisel accompanied Farber’s foreword. Additionally, the photo was used in two promotional items related to the book series. Farber had provided the photograph to Wiley with the understanding that he was authorized to grant its use. The issue of whether Maisel granted Farber the right to use the photograph for commercial purposes is at the core of this dispute. So how did Farber get the photograph and why did he believe he could pass it along to a publisher for use in a book?
According to Farber and Photoworkshop, Maisel had been the photographer on a commercial photo shoot for products that Farber was endorsing. The photograph was taken by Maisel after the commercial shoot and subsequently given to Farber by Maisel. Farber asserts “it is customary and standard practice in the photography community for photographers to take photographs and portraits of each other which may then be used without restriction.” Farber and Photoworkshop believe they were authorized to use the photograph based upon this customary relationship between photographers, which created an implied license.
Maisel asserts that his copyright in the photograph had been infringed by its use in the books without any license or authorization, and therefore he is entitled to receive damages for (i) his lost licensing fee and (ii) all profits attributable to the infringements. In response Photoworkshop and Farber counter that they had an implied license to use the photograph, and if, in the event the use of the photograph does constitute copyright infringement, Maisel should only be entitled to recover a reasonable license fee as damages for their use. The issue of whether Maisel would be entitled to profits attributable to the infringement is at the center of this dispute, as Maisel contends that under copyright law he is entitled to any profits attributable to the alleged infringement “to prevent Wiley from benefiting from its wrongful conduct.” By asserting the right to recover profits, in addition to actual damages, Maisel is seeking significantly greater compensation than he would receive for merely a lost licensing fee.
Although we will have to wait and see whether the court finds any merit in the implied license theory, the dispute illustrates that the best course of action is to get written authorization from the copyright holder for any commercial use of photographs, regardless of how you come into possession of the image. In this case, Farber contends that custom within the photographer community created an implied license when Maisel gave him the photograph, but Maisel’s response to learning that his photograph was used in a commercial publication without his permission shows that custom is no substitute for written authorization. Obviously this custom is not universal.
Blogger angers photo community by promoting decorating with Flickr photos
On June 24, 2009, Times blogger Sonia Zjawinski wrote in her Gadgetwise blog entitled “Flickr as an Interior Decorating Tool” that downloading, printing and framing photos found on Flickr was a cheap way decorate a home or office. When comments accused her of promoting thievery, she posted an update in which she interviewed attorney Anthony Falzone from the Stanford Fair Use Project who argued that her use might fall under the fair use doctrine of the Copyright Act. She also quoted an attorney from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, another organization devoted to expanding users’ rights, and weakening copyright law.
Asking Anthony Falzone, who is representing Shepard Fairey in the famed Obama poster case with the AP, about Fair Use is like asking a fox to guard the hen house. The Stanford Fair Use Project’s mission is to expand the doctrine of fair use and to litigate cases to broaden fair use under copyright law.
But if you actually read the fair use section of the Copyright Act, section 107, there is no “personal use” exemption. Fair use is a limitation on the exclusive rights of copyright creators and is intended for purposes such as “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research.” There is no automatic “safe use”, and a court is required to apply four factors to determine if the defense is justified:
- The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- The nature of the copyrighted work;
- The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Since print use is a use that photographer’s license or sell as a product, there is harm to the market place if photographs can be downloaded and framed, contrary to express terms and conditions and used for decoration. The only photographs that you can safely do that with are ones that the owner allows such use, either by express license such as some (but not all) creative common licenses or those that are in the public domain such as The library of Congress public domain archive. But for the blogger to encourage stealing images for cheap wall decor is reckless. Merely because most copyright owners will never know that you have decorated your home or office with pirated prints does not mean that the practice is legal or acceptable. Rather than asking someone from the Fair Use Project for advice, she should have asked the in-house lawyers at the New York Times, who understand the value of intellectual property.
For additional information,
see:
www.selling-stock.com/2009/06/30/new-york-times-journalist-takes-heat-for-questionable-use-of-flickr (subscription required)
gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/flickr-as-an-interior-decorator-tool
gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/are-flickr-photos-fair-game-for-home-printing
Supreme Court refuses to hear cases involving cable company service acting as remote DVR
Disappointing content providers and copyright holders, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in Cable News Network Inc. v. CSC Holdings Inc. (U.S., No. 08-448, review denied 6/29/09), appealing the Second Circuit's ruling that a cable television service providing digital video recording of television and movie programming at central sites—rather than on a home set-top box—is not a direct infringement of the copyright in those programs, Cartoon Network LP v. CSC Holdings Inc., 536 F.3d 121, 87 USPQ2d 1641 (2d Cir. 2008). The district court had found infringement while the
Appeals court did not, finding that it was the subscriber who “does” the copying here, not the service provider who provided the system that allowed the copying. PACA joined one of the several amicus briefs filed by content owners asking the court to rehear this case..
Hustler’s Publication of Photographs of Wrestler’s Murdered Wife Not Newsworthy
Toffoloni v. LFP Publishing Group, LLC, 2009 WL 1793180 (11th Cir. 2009)
When a person becomes known to the public for a crime or infamous event, can a magazine publish any picture of the person that they get their hands on? Or, put another way, how closely related to an event of public interest must a photograph be in order for a media outlet to have the right to publish the photograph? In many states there is a strong “newsworthiness” exception to an individual’s right of publicity which allows almost any photograph of the individual to be published as part of an article about the event that makes the individual of interest to the public. However, in a recent decision concerning the publication of twenty-year-old nude photographs of a recent high-profile murder victim a federal appeals court ruled that publication of the photographs was not protected because the images had no relation to the murder.
On June 25, 2009, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Hustler Magazine did not have the right to publish twenty-year-old photographs of Nancy Benoit, the woman murdered by her husband, the well-known professional wrestler Chris Benoit. In handing down its ruling the court declared that the magazine violated Nancy Benoit’s right of publicity and rejected Hustler’s assertion that the publication of the photos was protected by the “newsworthiness” exception to the right of publicity.
The photographs appeared in the March 2008 issue of Hustler, less than a year after Nancy Benoit was murdered by her husband in June 2007. Hustler argued that Benoit’s murder was a matter of public interest, that the photographs illustrated part of the story behind Benoit’s life, and therefore publication of the photographs should be protected by the newsworthiness exception to Georgia’s right of publicity law. The Court of Appeals disagreed, emphasizing that while Benoit’s murder was of public interest, the nude photographs were not themselves newsworthy and had no connection to the newsworthiness of the murder. The court pointed to the fact that the article was primarily comprised of the photographs themselves and only a very short portion of the article was made up of text regarding Benoit’s life. “These private, nude photographs were not incident to a newsworthy article; rather, the brief biography was incident to the photographs. Additionally, these photographs were neither related in time nor concept to the current incident of public interest.” The court considered the “heart” or purpose of the article to be publishing the nude photographs, rather than any sort of reporting on the murder that made Benoit a person of interest to the public. In the court’s estimation, the limited connection between the photographs and the actual murder proved insufficient to be protected as newsworthy.
Although this interpretation of Georgia’s right of publicity statute may not be applicable in states with stronger newsworthiness exceptions and/or weaker right of publicity laws, this ruling could prove relevant in other jurisdictions for how the court analyzed the lack of connection between the photographs and the event of public interest. If nothing else, this case proves that when it comes to publishing nude photographs, always think twice. So remember, just because the article is “editorial”, an unreleased image must still have a connection to the article (in terms of time and subject) and nude images always deserve a word of caution.
Dreamstime.com, a global photo community and worldwide leader in the stock photography industry has introduced Stock Rank—a new “photo-review tool” to enable members to test their photo IQ in comparing and ranking images. The new imaginative flash-interactive tool pairs two images on the screen and challenges the contestant to select the best photo—the photo most worthy of purchase or download—based on concept, subject, aesthetics, lighting, composition, etc. This feature was initially established as a quality assurance system utilized primarily by the agency's editors as part of their training to review the commercial aspects of stock submissions.
“We’re making the feature available to all members. It’s fun and will allow all users to learn to understand the difference between the images, degrees of quality and what actually sells,” said Serban Enache, CEO and co-founder of Dreamstime.com
As the member becomes an active participant, utilizing the feature and making accurate, consecutive selections, he or she will progress in a ranking system. As each member graduates from phase to phase, the images displayed on Stock Rank, and the comparison, will become more difficult validating the member’s ability to detect the most purchase-able image.
The DT players’ "tally" (or ranking) over the course of each phase will be posted on the community page to allow all members to monitor their success rate.
“The ranking system is designed to generate a fun competition within the Dreamstime community while enabling members to seek out that person who has an 'eye for detail' as a reliable go-to source for suggestions as to good/better/best photos in our blogs and forums. The participants’ skills summed together represent a grand wealth of knowledge that everyone can benefit from,” added Enache. “While Dreamstime has more than 70,000 photographers, the agency has 1.5 registered users—the majority being buyers. No matter the user (buyer, photographer, blogger or personal-user), every member has a natural eye for and interest in photography.”
For an introduction to the new Stock Rank feature, visit www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-rank.
The announcement of the new facet coincides with Dreamstime’s celebration of yet another benchmark. As of July 1, 2009, Dreamstime has successfully exceeded the 6 million mark; the contributor who submitted the unprecedented image received a free 120 GB iPod. Simultaneously, after surpassing the 1 million-subscriber mark in late October 2008, Dreamstime now has more than 1.5 million users. A design agency located in Edinburgh, UK, signed up to become the milestone member. Dreamstime.com is currently the second leading agency (in customers). The acceleration in numbers overall make it the fastest growing stock agency in the world.
The agency’s photo gallery, which has been built on community participation and communication, features an immeasurable assortment of model released lifestyle images in the business and family genres as well as an extraordinary and vast collection of travel, nature, sports, industry and health/wellness photographs—in addition to distinctive illustrations (vectors, graphic art and backgrounds). Dreamstime’s customer base is comprised of Fortune 500 companies, independent medium to small businesses and a variety of individuals who use the photos for a full range of print and online projects.
For more information, visit www.dreamstime.com.
Around the world, over the next two weeks, award-winning photographers are donating their image licensing and time and talents, with the intention that a child in a developing nation will have a better future. Compassionate Eye Foundation’s Fourth Annual Summer Solstice kicks off in Vancouver on June 15th, with the last shoot taking place in New York on June 24th. Compassionate Eye Foundation (CEF), founded by accomplished photographer Robert Kent, along with Getty Images, has partnered with dozens of photographers, makeup artists, producers, casting agents, digital techs, art directors and other industry professionals to continue this philanthropic endeavor.
In Vancouver, photographers and crew will come together June 15-19th at various locations around the city—including The Bloedel Conservatory, a rooftop in Chinatown, and a houseboat downtown. The Los Angeles shoot will begin on June 16th, at the Farmer’s Daughter Hotel. Other shooting locations include a private residence in Pasadena; and Air Hollywood, a 20,000 sq. ft. airport-themed studio in the San Fernando Valley. Central Park will be the backdrop for the June 24th shoot in New York and in London the unique Ark in Hammersmith building, and the Getty office, will be a few of the sets for the shoot. All locations have been donated for the cause.
The imagery created during the course of this year’s Summer Solstice Shoot will become part of the Compassionate Eye Foundation collection, available exclusively through Getty Images. The collection currently features more than 1,600 inspiring and conceptually-strong creative images, some of which have earned various industry awards and accolades, including Photo District News Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photography Annual and Creative Review Photography Annual.
“It’s truly amazing how quickly we’ve seen success with this program, and I see this model as something that can be taken on across industries,” says CEF Founder Robert Kent. “Imagine a famous musician donating a song so that all proceeds would benefit a cause... it’s about humanity working together for the greater good.”
Since its inception in 2005, Compassionate Eye Foundation has partnered with Getty Images and contributing photographers to create imagery that becomes an ongoing source of funding for the foundation’s philanthropic efforts. The photographers’ royalties, plus a donation by Getty Images of an additional share of the image license fees, have so far generated more than $325,000 for Compassionate Eye Foundation’s work.
The funds have helped to build classrooms and establish scholarship funds in Guatemala; support educational projects at Fezeka School in Cape Town, South Africa; and, a number of income and livelihood enterprises in Ethiopia. CEF also collaborates with other non-profit organizations with a shared desire to help the global community, including Alianza, Education without Boarders, As Green as it Gets, Free The Children, and Canadian Hunger Foundation.
About Compassionate Eye Foundation
Compassionate Eye Foundation is an innovative non-profit organization founded on the principle that creative people as a community can, and want to, make a positive difference in the world. It is CEF’s belief that education is the cornerstone to change. It is through promoting education, that CEF assists developing communities around the world, become more sustainable and healthy. Each year on or around June 21st, the Summer Solstice, photographers and their crews around the world voluntarily produce a one-day stock photo shoot. The royalty revenue generated through image licensing at Getty Images is donated to CEF.
To learn more about Compassionate Eye Foundation, to view or license CEF imagery from Getty Images, visit www.gettyimages.com/cef.
To obtain more information about Compassionate Eye Foundation and their charitable efforts, or to get involved, visit www.compassionateeye.org.
Stock photo agency Masterfile has recently brightened up its homepage design and wants to share the fun with its clients. As part of the facelift, Masterfile is offering 'free for personal use' e-wallpaper sets. Registered clients can download three new wallpapers per month. These curious and irreverent collages are composed from single images which are available for licensing on Masterfile’s website. They’re playfully fun and decorative designs will brighten anyone’s computer screen and workday. Wallpapers come in five sizes, including one tailor-made for handheld devices.
About Endless Media™
Endless Media is the revolutionary new search interface by Masterfile, heralding the next generation of online searching. Endless Media’s innovative features deliver new dimensions in image searching for industry professionals. Features such as the improved SimSearch® tool, the unique visual pairing feature, a strong history function, up to four active lightboxes, a zoom function for a detailed view and many more innovative features enable users to streamline their exisiting workflows in image searching. Endless Media—see what you think.
Masterfile Corporate Headquarters
416/929-3000
media@masterfile.com
TISTORY bloggers looking for real-time photos of the Korean golfer, Se Ri Pak, at the LPGA Corning Classic or hoping to get a shot at the first pictures of Won Bin attending Cannes Festival while promoting his recent movie “Mother” can now use PicApp’s plugin to search for and add relevant images to their posts.
Daum Communications is the largest ISP in Korea; it owns and operates TISTORY, a blog platform with more than 300,000 publishers and 159 million page views per month. TISTORY was launched in May 2006 and is experiencing rapid growth attracting opinion leaders and mainstream bloggers. PicApp was fully integrated into TISTORY’s publishing flow, providing its publishers with a seamless approach for embedding images.
“There has always been a need to provide our publishers legal-to-use, premium images and PicApp’s Partner API has proven to be a reliable and attractive solution for us,” Ms. Yoojin Kim, Leader of Strategy Service Planning, Daum Communications, said. “PicApp’s vast licensed image database covering a wide variety of interests and categories is helping TISTORY publishers produce more superb posts while having the peace of mind knowing all images are legal to use.”
PicApp (www.picapp.com) offers bloggers and online publishers premium, licensed images to enhance news and creative posts on their sites while addressing blog networks’ desire to act as a hub for their publishers offering image search that is fully integrated into their users’ publishing flow.
“As a technology company, our mission is to create tools for our partners and their users to easily use images and to increase interactivity of the content, thus enriching blog readers’ experience. Implementing our Partner API with a strong partner such as Daum Communications which stands for innovation and excellence represents a major milestone for PicApp with its global expansion plans,” Eyal Gura, CEO, PicApp, said. “This partnership reinforces PicApp’s business model as a true win-win for everyone."
PicApp enables publishers to easily search and insert images into posts, it has around 20 million images covering entertainment, sports, news, travel, fashion, and more, with 10,000 images being updated daily. PicApp images, which come fully tagged with metadata, are indexed by search engines thus promoting blog SEO. News and photo agencies licensing images via PicApp include, among others, Getty Images, Corbis, Newscom, Splash News and Pacific Coast News. Displaying ads on image photo gallery page provides a monetization tool on the content owner’s behalf.
Today’s economic situation means most businesses must act cautiously by reducing or delaying investment in new projects. It’s often tempting to cut back on marketing and advertising too, but this is always a false economy: in time business lost to competitors more than outweighs the initial savings.
“Customers can't find you if you don't advertise. It gives greater advantage to your competitors leading the way in your industry. You want to be able to create confidence with your customers, letting them know that you are still out there and ready for business.”
Victor Sieff, Video Production Director
Successful businesses see an economic downtown as an opportunity to get ahead of competitors in retreat. They re-focus their marketing spend on activities that most cost-effectively bring in new business or build loyalty from existing customers. That’s where we come in, because Picturehouse New York is the single most cost-effective marketing event of the industry calendar:
- Each year since 2001 we have grown the event, and this year is a huge step up into one of the best and largest venues available in central Manhattan.
- We are expecting in the region of 1,000 professional picture buyers and researchers this year, and up to 150 exhibitors from around the world. See who exhibited and registered to attend last year (these read like a Who’s Who of the industry!)
- Our exhibit prices are lower than in 2007 (e.g. a standard table for $2,600 before discounts, down from $2,750) and you get more for your money (40% extra space, free listing in Image Sources, free press release service, etc.)
- Responding to feedback from attendees (over 85%), we are running a session on copyright right before the show opens, guaranteeing a large crowd from the very start.
- Also in response to feedback (over 60%), we're broadening the range of stock media we present, to include footage, fonts, software widgets, and search services.
- Far from reducing our marketing spend this year, we are investing heavily in print and web advertising, emailing to over 20,000 contacts in the Tristate region, and strategic partnerships with other industry bodies, including PACA, CEPIC, and the ASPP.
- We are also hosting the Young Photographers Alliance inaugural Award Ceremony the night before Picturehouse, and a Silent Auction of photographers' work on the day, both of which will receive widespread publicity.
“We have now been attending the New York Picturehouse event for 5 years and every year Deborah manages to get new and interesting image buyers through the doors. 2008 was the best event yet, the venue was packed throughout the day and we made many new contacts we will follow up!”
Ute Krebs, akg-images
If you do only one major piece of marketing this year, make it Picturehouse New York!
“Picturehouse was the perfect way to internationally showcase the NY debut of f8 photo library, our Sydney-based boutique photo library. It's was a great platform for us to connect with picture buyers from all medias from around the world and a front row seat to view the dynamic path the industry is taking.”
f8 photo library
Event details
When: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11am-8pm
Where: Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York, 10011 (map)
Information: www.picturehouse-us.com/newyork
We hope you will join us at what should prove to be the best New York event ever!
Best regards,
Deborah
StockShop LLC, an independent stock photography agency based in Boston, announces the addition of a royalty-free (RF) image collection to its website. This new collection includes over 5,000 images, and gives customers another option for viewing and purchasing images. Unlike rights-managed images, royalty-free images allow the customer to pay a one-time fee for the rights to use a specific image multiple times, with the price directly related to file size.
“While we remain committed to StockShop’s 100% exclusive rights-managed model released images, adding the RF collection allows us to meet the growing demand for fixed price licenses,” said Maggie Fellner Hunt, StockShop’s founder and president. “Our goal was to enhance our offerings and allow clients to find the best image for their needs. When price and convenience are paramount, RF is the answer.”
The addition of royalty-free images will be a huge plus for StockShop. The company plans to re-categorize 30% of its current inventory to be royalty-free, as well as actively seek new content specifically for the new collection. A woman-owned and -operated business, StockShop LLC is a WBENC- and SOMWBA-certified boutique stock agency that offers handpicked images from emerging and recognized talents with a broad spectrum of viewpoints. The agency’s creative photographers are a blend of established award-winning professionals and fresh new faces.
For more information, contact:
Dorian Romer
866/663-1153
dorian.romer@stockshop.com
WIN-Initiative, a boutique stock agency created by award-winning photographer Hans Neleman, and Resource magazine, the publication guide for photo industry professionals, have joined forces to host their first ever FREE competition, 10 Best 10.
Open to photographers (both nationally and abroad) the 10 Best 10 contest aims to find today’s most striking, poignant, evocative and arresting imagery, as photographed by the most daring and innovative shooters around. To ensure maximum exposure, the contest is not only free of charge, but also free of categories and explicit rules. The only criterion to submit entries is that participants submit what they consider to be their best work. Up to ten images can be uploaded at the competition’s website, www.resource.win-competition.com.
The panel of esteemed judges includes Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor Stella Kramer of New York Times and Newsweek fame, graphic designer David Carson and Time Out New York photo editor Roberto De Luna, among others. The judges will select the ten best images from all the submissions that they feel encompass originality, technique and vision.
“WIN-Initiative wanted to join forces with Resource in creating the contest for several reasons,” says WIN founder Hans Neleman. “The working model for WIN has been to help rising photographers grow into established, earning professionals. WIN achieves this goal by providing cameras, equipment and even free workshops to our team of photographers, all in the name of fostering commercially viable, superb talent,” he adds. When asked about the purpose of the contest, Neleman says, “WIN views the 10 Best 10 competition as yet another way in which to help rising and established talent compete in the changing global marketplace.”
The winners will have their photographs exhibited during a gala event, slated to happen at the Tribeca Skyline Studio, on October 21, 2009, the first day of this year’s PDN PhotoPlus Expo. In addition, Resource and WINk (WIN’s online supplemental photography magazine) will feature the winning photographs in a spread. Other prizes will be announced in the near future.
About Resource Magazine
Resource Magazine is a quarterly publication dedicated to the sub-culture of the photo production industry. It explores all facets of the business, from the mundane to the illustrious, through interviews, photographs and articles. For more information, visit www.resourcemagonline.com.
When Jerry and I made the commitment to go ahead with Young Photographers Alliance, many told us that we were crazy to set up a foundation in light of today’s economic hardships. We are pleased to say that, to the contrary, we’ve found that the majority of our colleagues want to make a difference in our professional world and are searching for ways to give back. They see YPA as a way to do so.
Our attendance at CEPIC reinforced this. There we met with companies and individuals from all over the world, all interested parties eager to support our goal—to nurture, inspire and support the next generation of photographers. Through scholarships, mentoring, internships and educational programs, YPA will provide incentives for talented and dedicated young photographers to continue their education and build professional, sustainable careers in the field of photography.
If we do not help this next generation of photographers, photography may well become pretty much like GM... not exactly bankrupt, but on very shaky ground. There have been too many premonitions/predictions of doom already or despair already.
To achieve our goals YPA will need your help. Yes, in the most obvious way, monetarily (please go to www.youngphotographersalliance.org/support-us.php to become a YPA member); but also by volunteering your time to work on our programs, events or committees.
Do you have experience in any of these areas and will you volunteer?
- Fundraising
- Organizing a print auction or silent auction
- Producing an award ceremony
- Community relations and marketing, graphic design
- Intern or mentoring programs
- Technology, social media marketing, web design
- Or any other applicable skills
Our goals are ambitious and we would love to get you onboard! If you have any questions, suggestions, or would like to volunteer, please contact us at info@youngphotographersalliance.org, or call Deborah at 585/768-7880.
For more information about YPA go to www.youngphotographersalliance.org (Yes, we know it is long but "www.ypa.org" was taken by the Young Politicians of America). FYI, our website is currently under construction.
On behalf of Jerry and myself, thank you all in advance for your time and possible interest.
With warmest regards,
Deborah Free & Jerry Tavin