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Savoring Victory: Team Brazil Wins World Photographic Cup

October 2020 issue Galleries

The medals have been tallied. Team Brazil is this year’s winner of the prestigious World Photographic Cup (WPC), with Team USA in second place, and Team Malaysia in third.Structured like the Olympic Games, the WPC pits teams of photographers from countries around the world against one another to earn gold, silver, and bronze medals. The team earning the most medal points wins. Teams compete in six photographic categories: commercial, illustrative, landscape/nature, portrait, reportage, and... Continue Reading >

International Photographic Competition Goes Online for 2020

9.3.2020 News

PPA’s International Photographic Competition  hosted annually by Professional Photographers of America isn’t really a competition at all. It’s an opportunity for photographers to have their images evaluated by trained jurors and to receive constructive feedback from them. With a long history of identifying excellence, IPC challenges photographers to grow their artistic and technical skills by creatively capturing and then presenting their best images for review.This year, in response to... Continue Reading >

Muñoz Photography: The Family Business

By Robert Kiener
June 2020 issue Profiles

When the Muñoz brothers—Tom, Mario, Armando, and Marceliano—say photography is in their blood, they’re not just using a turn of phrase. Photography is literally in their blood line.“We’re fourth-generation photographers. Our great-grandfather started a photography business in Cuba over a century ago,” says Tom, 37, as he sits with his brother Mario in their Fort Lauderdale, Florida, studio, Muñoz Photography. “Then my grandfather Tomas continued it and came to Miami in 1961,... Continue Reading >

President’s message: Welcome 2020

By Audrey Wancket, M.Photog.Cr.
January 2020 issue News

© Gregory Daniel Portraits and Kyla Renee Paintings PPA President Audrey WancketI love January: new year, new goals, and most of all, Imaging USA. Nashville, here we come. It’s exciting to be at an event where more than 10,000 photographers gather and everyone learns, shares, and gets inspired. Those of us who have been to many PPA annual conventions (more than 30 for me) know generally what to expect when we get there.But members who are at their first or second Imaging USA may not... Continue Reading >

2020 Diamond Photographers

January 2020 issue Galleries

Skill, creativity, consistency. These are just some of the qualities a photographer needs to go four-for-four in PPA’s International Photographic Competition. This year, 20 talented individuals did just that by having their case of four images judged as worthy to enter the Loan Collection and thereby being named Diamond Photographers of 2020.A mainstay of PPA history, the competition has long had two categories into which participants could enter a case of four images each: photographic... Continue Reading >

PPA offers degree for wedding photographers

January 2020 issue News

Establish your wedding credFifty-two percent of Professional Photographers of America members report that wedding photography makes up a portion of their business. With a majority of members engaging in this type of photography, PPA decided it was time to create a master of wedding photography degree targeted at this specialty. Earning the degree enables wedding photographers to improve their skills and knowledge in this unique niche as well as establish credibility with clients.The degree... Continue Reading >

Erich Caparas gives photographers an education

By Amanda Arnold
October 2019 issue Profiles

Stepping back to help others move forward© Erich Caparas Erich CaparasIn 2002, after 22 years working as a photographer and graphic designer, Erich Caparas, M.Photog., walked away. “I was burned out,” he says of his career in the commercial niche. He craved something different, so he moved to Florida to become, of all things, a real estate broker.For nine years, Caparas built his brokerage business. But photography wasn’t done with him yet. In 2011, he picked it up again as a... Continue Reading >

High-mileage photograph

9.4.2019 News

Loan Collection image travels the worldWhen Dan Francis, M.Photog,Cr. CPP, entered photographs in the International Photographic Competition last year, he had no idea how far one would go. Literally.From his home base in Fargo, North Dakota, Francis sent “Passing Time” to Georgia in mid-2018 for judging at IPC. There it scored a 98, landing it in PPA’s prestigious Loan Collection. © Courtesy Dan Francis Dan Francis flew to Italy to see his image "Passing Time" displayed in... Continue Reading >

In real life: Nichole Manner connects with seniors

By Amanda Arnold
August 2019 issue Profiles

© Nichole Manner Photographer Nicole MannerA phone consultation with a teenager? That’s unusual, says photographer Nichole Manner, M.Photog. These days, teens avoid talking on the phone like the plague. So nine times out of 10, Manner’s pre-session phone consultation to gather information about the subject’s interests and personality is a conversation between herself and the subject’s parent. Nevertheless, she makes an effort to connect with teens directly via their preferred... Continue Reading >

President’s Message: Perception vs. reality

By Audrey Wancket, M.Photog.Cr., CPP
June 2019 issue News

PPA President Audrey Wancket © JAMIE HAYESDon't be intimidatedPerception is the way a person thinks about something. Ask five people to describe a thing and you’ll get five different answers.William Branson III M.Photog., Cr., is a PPA life member and talented portrait photographer. “When I first attended the conventions and programs, I would sit in the back of programs by myself as I had not yet made any friends,” he told me. “I was petrified by all the people and intimidated... Continue Reading >
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