ASMP Chicago Midwest

In this difficult economy and with ever declining budgets, how do you market your business effectively without breaking the bank?

This program is about sharing the new rules in the continuously changing landscape of communication. New Internet tools and applications are developed almost daily to help individuals and org...anizations better tell their story through digital marketing and personal branding.

Eighty percent of people with Internet access go to the Web first to find information about people, products and organizations. Blogs, podcasts, social media and Web 2.0 tools offer unique opportunities to level the playing field in the continuous effort to earn deeper attention of current clients and new prospects.

New Media Marketing is about the conversation, being engaged and attracting the attention of a world overloaded with information and resources.

The Speaker:
Rosh Sillars speaks about the tools, concepts and best practices for using the Web 2.0 tools that have helped him continue to attract new clients and grow his photography business. Rosh Sillars is a veteran photographer with a photojournalism background specializing in people, food and interiors. Rosh offers his services to traditional media, new media and corporate clients. He owns the creative representation firm The Rosh Group, Inc. and teaches photography at two universities.

Rosh has been online since the early 1990s. He recorded his first podcast (audio over the internet) in 1999 on business tips hosted by the Rosh.com Web site. He has co-hosted the prosperous artists podcast and blog with writer Dean LaDouceur since early 2007. Other related projects include Citynet Magazine (2000-2001) and mysuccessradio.com (2003-2004). Rosh has now combined his two passions, new media and photography, to host NewMediaPhotographer.com.

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Here's an opportunity to get up close, personal and behind the scenes of three very prominent Chicago photographers. On this rare occasion these photogs will open the doors to their studios and give you a first hand vantage point to how they work and how they outfit their studios. You'll have the chance to ask question...s, pick their brains and gain some insight into how they've built successful photography businesses.

We will depart from:
Helix Photography and Video building
310 S. Racine Chicago, IL 60607
(corner of Jackson & Racine)
Thursday October 29th at 6:30pm (promptly)
Seating is limited!
For information & reservations call 312-733-7798.

ASMP members $25

Affiliated organizations, (APA, GAG, C3, etc. with membership card) $30
Non members $35
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The local ASMP and APA chapters are joining together to start a monthly social gathering. The events are open to anyone who is interested, whether or not they're a member of either organization. We will be providing appetizers and snacks. The goal of this new effort isencourage the photographic community to get togeth...er over a casual drink or two. Please spread the word and encourage friends and colleagues to join us.

Contact ASMP Assistants and Associates Committee Chair Marc Altman (marc@marcaltman.com) or APA Midwest Chapter President Megan (apamidwest@gmail.com) with any questions or to RSVPRead more

Have a current personal project that you have been working on and need some feedback?

Join the ASMP Gallery Committee for a night out of cocktails and critiques. The Gallery committee believes that the best way to combat slow times in business is to get shooting the projects you’ve been meaning to tackle, the things you... love, the things that matter. Moderated by Natasha Egan, associate director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Cocktails and Critiques is a group critique, discussion and support session for professional photographers (that’s right everyone else gets to chime in too).
This event will help 6 photographers get from ideas to plans. Egan has juried local and international exhibitions, contributed to essays and teaches at Columbia. The evening will encourage and inspire you to start thinking about your own personal projects and give you the chance to talk and bounce ideas off other photographers in the community.

Cocktails and Critiques is a creative and productive environment where you are encouraged to think consciously about your creative process and connect with your peers within the photography community. Come Mix, Mingle and critique. You do not have to be showing work in order to come.

Want to be one of the seven? These are the requirements for showing your work.
This must be a current body of work. It does not have to be complete; works in progress are just fine for us.

If you are interested in showing work contact Stephanie Graham at missgraham@gmail.com or 847.899.3564

First come first serve basis.



Natasha’s Bio:
Natasha Egan is associate director and curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. Egan has organized dozens of international and national exhibitions such as Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: The Transportation of Place; Consuming Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama, Dan Holdsworth, Mark Ruwedel and Toshio Shibata; Manufactured Self, photographs about how we identify ourselves through what we consume with international artists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States; Made in China, visually focusing on the global impact of manufacturing in China through photography, video and installation; Loaded Landscapes looking at historical and contemporary sites of trauma and conflict; and The Edge of Intent examining the utopian aspirations of urban planners and how their visions adapt to changing environments. Egan has contributed essays to such publications as Shimon Attie: The History of Another (Twin Palms Press, 2004); Photography Plugged and Unplugged (Contemporary Magazine, 2004); Brain Ulrich: Copia (Aperture, 2006); Beate Gütschow LS / S (Aperture, 2007); Michael Wolf: The Transparent City (Aperture, 2008); Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008); and Stacia Yeapanis (Aperture 2009). In addition, she teaches in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago and juries local and national exhibitions. She holds an MA in museum studies, an MFA in fine art photography, and a BA in Asian studies
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