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Sports Illustrated photographer Damian Strohmeyer holds one of his most famous photos from Super Bowl 42, of the key plays in the game. He and his family live in Lexington, Mass.

Strohmeyer's award-winning photo was taken in the fall of 2009 during the Patriots/Ravens game at Gillette Stadium. Photos courtesy of The Lexington Minuteman/Ann Ringwood.

-Don

Travis Fox 7D rig

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Boston.com

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Behind the veil

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The release offers this on Andrea-

“Andrea Bruce has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas as a staff photographer for
The Washington Post for the past eight years. She covered Iraq from 2003 to the present,
following the intricacies and obstacles of the conflict experienced by Iraqis and the U.S.
military. She also wrote a weekly column for The Post called “Unseen Iraq.” Andrea
continues to work for The Washington Post as a contract photographer. Her awards include
top honors from the White House News Photographers Association (where she has been
named Photographer of the Year four times), several awards from the International Pictures
of the Year contest, and the prestigious John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in
New York. She has also been a finalist for The Aftermath Project grant and the Alicia Patterson Foundation
Fellowship. This year she received the WHNPA grant for her work in Ingushetia. Andrea has exhibited
her work in Scotland and the United States. She is currently based in Afghanistan and is available for
photography and multimedia assignments. www.andreabruce.com”

And this on Peter-

“Peter DiCampo is an American photographer who divides his time between Africa and the
Americas. He launched his freelance career in 2007 while also serving as a Peace Corps
volunteer in rural Ghana. As the media landscape shifts, and the role of photojournalism
becomes less defined, Peter prides himself on using his pictures to further educational
initiatives and cultural awareness. His photography has been used in educational programs
in the U.S. and Africa in partnership with Peace Corps, the President’s Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief, Rotary International, and the Friends of Ghana Society. In 2009, he was
awarded a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and was a finalist for the Open
Society Institute’s Documentary Photography Distribution Grant. Peter’s photography and multimedia work
have been published by Time, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and others. www.peterdicampo.com”

Congratulations to both of you.

-Don

Nicolaus Czarnecki, Boston Metro

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I’m hoping that we’ll be able to ramp up communication between organizations and members here and in other ways.  We’d love to hear from you.  I need to know what’s on your mind and how best members can be served in these, well, dynamic times.  To start I have some recent news from Sean at The (New London) Day.  Here you go.  Now, what have you got?

-Don

From Sean-

“In October of last year Abigail Pheiffer joined our staff. Abby’s most recent gig was graduate student at Missouri and director of photography at the Columbia Missourian. Abby’s arrival kept The Day’s staffing from sinking to historic lows, though still down from the highs of around 2002-2006.

In February staff photographer Tim Martin and reporter Karin Crompton traveled to Haiti to cover earthquake recovery efforts by workers from the Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Conn., Haitian Ministries. The diocese’s mission house in Port au Prince collapsed in the quake and local workers went down to help re-build their programs. Tim and Karin reported live from the ground and The Day published a two-day special repot after their return that included audio slide shows, video, photos and stories.

http://www.theday.com/section/NWShaiti

At the end of March Chief Photographer Sean D. Elliot and reporter Ted Mann traveled to Cuba to cover the historic visit of the Freedom Schooner Amistad to the isolated Caribbean island nation. Amistad, a replica of an 1839 Spanish coastal freighter seized by the African captives being transported from Havana to Cuba’s eastern plantations, was built at Mystic Seaport and launched in 2000. Amistad America, the ships owner and operator, had long hoped for a “homecoming” for the schooner and finally got approval from both U.S. and Cuban governments this year. Elliot and Mann flew to Havana, met Amistad upon arrival in the port city of Matanzas and sailed from there to Havana where the Cuban government hosted a greeting and series of events to commemorate the United Nations World Remembrance of Slavery Day. Elliot and Mann negotiated the limited connectivity, transmitting via very slow DSL lines at hotels, or from state-run telecommunications kiosks as well as the only T1 line in Havana, at the AP bureau.

http://www.theday.com/section/NWSamistad

Less than a week after getting home from Cuba Elliot was back off to warmer climes, this time San Antonio for the NCAA women’s basketball final four, where the Connecticut Huskies won their second consecutive national title. Sean is mostly glad to be home for a while now.

The photo staff launched a new photo blog with the launch of the paper’s web site redesign last year.

http://www.theday.com/section/INTERACT010404

How could I have forgotten this one?  Peter Huoppi, The Day’s multimedia director, hauls in two regional Emmy’s in May.  Congratulations Peter.

-D

photo: Isaiah Habib/includingsamuel.com

Also Region 1 director Don passed along information that Rich Beauchesne, photographer at the Portsmouth Herald, was in a motorcycle accident.

Random blog info for a random blog day.

-Sarah Evans