Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>two pieces of news: > > 1) Scott Squire has just been Susan Meiselas Award for Documentary >Photojournalism, which will give him extra $$$ to put towards life in >romania. (clap clap) > > 2) I've set up a mechanism whereby luggers can make a donation to >the scholarship fund via paypal, send your contribution to >lug_scholarship@hotmail.com. I've seeded the pot with the first donation. > > We're looking now at dates of May-August for Scott to be in Romania. >If anybody has contacts in the country, I'm sure he'd be grateful for them. >I'm also negotiating with several companies for donations of film, if >anybody has any contacts in that regard, that would be cool too. > > Thirdly, I'm just thinking that we should set up a scholarship >committee for next years award and hash out rules of the award (e.g. >portfolio submission rules, etc. etc.) maybe 7 people. anybody interested? >Also it seems to make sense that at project's end Scott will make available >a number of prints which may be purchased by LUG members for a price to be >determined and the $$$ from that will go to fund next years scholarship. It >would be nice if this thing was self sufficient. any financial lugwyers care >to be on the committee? > Sorry this year's got off to a rocky start -- my fault entirely. >Next year will be even better. > > Thanks for all your help, > > Kyle I hope the results of the LUG scholarships can be knitted into the LUG FOM2 project. Does this offend? - -- Alastair Firkin http://www.afirkin.com http://www.familyofman2.com ()" "'() ()" "() ()" "() ( '0',) ( '0' ) ( '0', ) (,,)(")(") (")(") (")(")(,) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html