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DC/South board member and art producer at Discovery Channel, Mary Priestland speaks to chapter members.
DC/SOUTH BEHIND THE SCENES WITH DISCOVERY PHOTO SERVICES by Cory Lawrence On Wednesday July 22, 2015, the DC/South chapter went behind the scenes with Discovery Channel’s in-house photo services department. The event, held at PHOTOGROUP INC.’s studio in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, brought together fourteen members of Discovery’s photo team for an informal talk with thirty-five chapter members. Karen Bovie, associate director of Photo Services, gave an overview of the three departments that make up the photo team’s producers, interactive producers, and operations. Then the producers presented five different photo shoots they worked on and spoke about how the creative came about, how they found and hired photographers, and how they solved problems during the shoot. The operations team spoke last, giving a glimpse into the asset management system Discovery uses to house more than one million images. DC/South president Cory Lawrence thanked everyone for coming to the event and spoke briefly about the importance of ASPP membership. Barry Soorenko also talked briefly about services PHOTOGROUP INC. offers to the DC area photography community. 54
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NEW YORK BUSY SUMMER NIGHTS by Darrell Perry At our July 1st Peer2Peer, the New York chapter talked of Taylor Swift’s scuffles with Apple and photographers claiming she was grabbing their rights. We also discussed Shutterstock’s deal with Variety and Women’s Wear Daily. The global stock agency will gain a beachhead in news and celebrity coverage, making itself a stronger competitor to Getty Images and hopefully creating a healthier marketplace. We also briefly addressed the current European Union investigation into anti-competitive social networking and Internet impediments. Government involvement in Google’s activities could have far-reaching effects in all Internet usage and copyright rules. Later in the month, on July 16th, sixty NY members attended a panel hosted at and by Getty Images in New York. The panel included: Anna Dickson, deputy director of photography, Wall Street Journal; Wajmah Yaqubi, director of photography, Buzzfeed; and Matt Bishop, operations manager at Geometry Global (division of WPP). Andrew Delaney, Getty Images’s director of creative content, was moderator.