CONTACTTHE SHEET Journal of the University Photographer’s Association of America Winter 2007 UPAA.org Table of Contents BOARD OF DIRECTORS News .................................................................2 President Jim Dusen Member Profile SUNY Brockport 585-395-2133 Chuck Barry ............................................3 [email protected] Product Reviews Vice President & Symposium Chair Dawn Van Hall Ewa Underwater Bags ............................7 SUNY Cortland Lensbaby 3G.............................................9 607-753-4890 [email protected] Mid Year Board Meeting .................................10 Secretary Nick Romanenko Aerial Photography.........................................14 Rutgers University 732-445-3710 x6109 Gaffer’s Gadgets.............................................16 [email protected] Treasurer & Listserv Chair Symposium 2007 ...............................................16 Dean Carothers Tennessee Tech University 931-372-3305 [email protected] Membership Chair Robert Jordan Editor University of Mississippi The new year is always an exciting time. Resolutions, new products, and 662-915-7260 [email protected] new challenges signal the start of the excitement. Maybe it is the goal to start that new archiving system, to provide complete metadata with all MIC Chair Jay Ferchaud images, or to enter the MIC each month. Whatever the goal, each of us University of Mississippi strives to improve. Medical Center 601-984-1973 Improvement can be an illusive target. Apathy, lack of constructive criti- [email protected] cism, or the feeling of non-appreciation rule the day. Each day and at the Bill Bitzinger start of each project we need to push ourselves to excel, to be better than Ferris State University we were yesterday. 231-591-2374 [email protected] Tools to help us are plentiful: MIC, the listserv, and the Symposium. The listserv can be the daily resource for humor, questions, and updates The Contact Sheet Editor Glenn Carpenter on new ideas. One of the greatest sources of inspiration is the MIC. Once Moraine Valley Community College a month you can view some of the best images created on college cam- 708-974-5495 puses, and give your opinion. The culmination of these occurs each June [email protected] at the Symposium. Printed at Miami University, Ohio As you strive for improvement make use of these tools. Push yourself to enter and vote in the MIC. Make plans for Chicago, and share your thoughts on the listserv. A new feature in The Contact Sheet is Gaffer's Gadgets. The brain child About the Cover of Jeff Miller, this feature showcases the creativity of our membership, St Joseph's Hall. I shot and provides real solutions to everyday challenges. this on my way back from another assignment. The As always, let me know how The Contact Sheet can better serve you. building is right next door to my office, but it Glenn Carpenter, editor took eighteen years for Moraine Valley Community College me to get a shot I liked of students and those cool front doors. Photo by Chuck Barry 2 From the President PAA’s mission is to pro- oped a new citation to be given to a supervisor or an admin- Uvide professional develop- istrator in appreciation of exceptional support for your pro- ment for university photogra- fession. And just as the honors you receive from this organi- phers and recognition of excel- zation are hard earned, we expect that any honors given for lence in talent and service by this new citation need to pass a strict test and not merely be our members. Those goals used to curry favor. should also be a high priority You are welcome to nominate someone on your campus who by your campus administrators is particularly deserving of appreciation given on your behalf so that your professional serv- by UPAA. Consider your nomination carefully and send a ice can reach its greatest poten- request and letter of justification to me. I will copy the Board tial. Fortunately many of us and we will evaluate it. If approved, a citation called The work for people who rise to the University Photographers’Association of America Board of occasion. Directors Award for Support of the Profession of Photography in As with everything in life there Higher Education, will be printed and signed by the full are different levels of excellence around us. Just listen to dis- Board at the next meeting. You are then welcome to make the cussion in the hospitality room or on the listserv. There are presentation to the recipient on your campus. This award will administrators that excel at promoting their professional staff, be given as needed rather than just one per year. Our next their work, and the profession of University Photographer. Board meeting will take place at the June symposium in With that in mind the UPAA Board of Directors has devel- Chicago. News rank Williams of Auburn University–Montgomery pre- ary Harwood, of Kent State University, has completed F sented a print of his first place photo of The General Ghis 5 year book project, Growing Season: The Life of A W.K. Wilson, Jr. Bridge to Governor Bob Riley. The photo- Migrant Community. Gary captures the migrants’ portraits graph won First Place in the MIC for Dec.-Jan. 2005. Frank and conveys their great pride in work and family, their strug- was accompanied by Chancellor John G. Veres. gles and their joys. The book contains 141 photographs and is available for $19.95 at Amazon.com. ick Mickelson won several awards and was a part of sev- Reral others won by the University of Wisconsin, Eau lan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer at the Claire. Rick gathered: AUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, was the subject of • University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Professional a story in his college magazine, Review. Alan, along with fel- Academic Staff Excellence in Performance Award low photographer Elen Pizer, were featured as successful self-taught photographers. Both photographers are graduates • Honorary Membership in Golden Key International of the UW Milwaukee College of Letters and Sciences. Honor Society • CASE Bronze for Best Photo Series “Stepping Up to hris Hughes was part of the team responsible for a mar- the Plate” Cketing poster that won a Gold award from CASE in the Student Recruitment Individual Publications category. Chris’ The University also won several other CASE Awards that photo is a key element in this successful poster. contained Rick’s images. inghamton University photographer Evangelos J. wo of our members received awards at the NCMPR BDousmanis, 54, died Jan. 18 in Florida, following a TConference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mark Carriveau courageous battle with cancer. Dousmanis, a New York City from Elgin Community College in Elgin, IL. received a native known to friends as “Van,” served as the University's Silver Medallion in the Feature Photo Category. Glenn first campus-wide photographer from 1995 until he went on Carpenter from Moraine Valley Community College in Palos medical leave in 2005. He previously worked for the Hills, IL received a Gold Medallion in Feature Photo and a Associated Press in New Jersey and the Courier Post in Silver Medallion in News Photography. Cherry Hill, NJ. His photos represented the University in Sports Illustrated, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Time and the Press & Sun-Bulletin, among other publications. He also was a lecturer and instructor of photography. 3 The Lone Wolf by Nick Romanenko, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey “ o you surf?” That is inevitably one of the first questions was just as hot as the previous afternoon.” Breakfast looked D people ask Santa Clara University photographer like a better option at that point. Serendipity struck. “I walked Charles Barry (most folks call him Chuck) when they find into breakfast and thinking since I don’t know anybody in the out he’s from California. Heck, I did. Santa Clara, while in room I’m going to just sit down and be brave and introduce California and 60 miles south of San Francisco, is forty min- myself to this first person. This first person happened to be utes away from the ocean, and no, this private Jesuit Robert Jordan (‘Ole Miss). I introduced myself and he looks University does not offer a surfing major. As for Chuck, he at my nametag and says ‘Santa Clara? My boss came from doesn’t surf either. “I tried bodysurfing a couple of times someplace like that. Her name is Sabrina Brown. I went Holy when I was much younger and almost killed myself,” he Sh@t!’ So we hit it off right away because his current boss offers. was my former boss. We swapped a lot of stories, though he and I both really respect her.” Chuck also likes swapping sto- The other question Chuck always gets is, “Do you play gui- ries with Bill Bitzinger (Ferris State), whose ex-boss at Ferris tar?” To which he can actually say “yes,” though he goes on now works in Marketing & Communications at Santa Clara to admit, “I’ve been a rank beginner for the last thirty years. University. I keep thinking someday we’ll all end up related When I say ‘yes’, the questioner usually doesn’t have a to each other at this rate. response, and when I tell them I mostly play the mandolin, they really don’t seem to know where to go with that.” We Chuck’s been a California Dude most of his life with a few both lament that the Chuck Berry question is less an issue interesting diversions. He spent a year in Washington D.C. today as, “more and more students seem to have no idea who freelancing and assisting photographer Fred Maroon. There Chuck Berry is anymore.” was also the year in Brazil with his ex-wife, a Foreign Service officer. Currently Chuck lives in a picturesque 1920s At least you can say Chuck looks like a surfer, tall and neighborhood on the outskirts of nearby San Jose with his skinny, casually dressed in a California cool way.