People photography is a challenge for most of us.  Join us on October 2nd for an exciting presentation on the subject from an respected artist and photojournalist - Jaime Rose who will share her thoughts along with some of her images. Members are also invited to join Jaime for dinner at The Olive Garden Restaurant in Tysons at 5:30 p.m. prior to the meeting.

Jamie Rose is an international award winning photojournalist based in the Washington, DC area. She has worked in over 5 continents, won awards and grants for her documentary photography and has been a contract photographer with some of the world's largest nonprofit organizations. She has been internationally recognized for her long term documentary projects on volunteer health care providers and humanitarian issues. In 2009, Jamie joined our team to head our workshop division and create the curriculum for Momenta Workshops.

Jamie received her Master's Degree in photojournalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor's degree from American University. She was awarded an Alexia Foundation grant for her photographic project on a nonprofit inner city volunteers. She completed her Master's thesis photographing volunteer health care workers in the West Bank and Israel. This project established her passion for working with nonprofits and covering humanitarian issues and earned her a place in the prestigious agency team at Aurora Photos.

Jamie began her career as a newspaper photographer covering politics at the White House and Congress for The New York Times in Washington, DC. She traveled to Africa on sabbatical to produce a story on abandoned children at Kenya's biggest hospital, the East African drought of 2006 and to cover the Ugandan Presidential elections.

Her work has been published in National Geographic Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, O Magazine, Rolling Stone, Better Homes and Gardens, Newsweek, TIME Magazine and others. Her nonprofit clients include The Global Fund (team included Magnum select photographers including Steve McCurry and Eli Reed), Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation and Physicians for Human Rights among others. Her photo editing skills were rewarded when she was asked to be the lead photo editor National Geographic's "American Heroes" book.

Jamie was honored with the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) Project Grant for her work with Doctors Without Borders (Medicines Sans Frontiers) in the conflict areas of Northern Uganda during the civil war. She has returned to Africa numerous times to work on health care related projects in the nonprofit sector as well as to teach our Project Uganda workshop.

Jamie lives outside of Washington, DC where she is the President of the nonprofit WPOW: Women Photojournalists of Washington and as the Chair of the Student Photographer of the Year committee for WHNPA. See Jamie's portfolio at http://jamierose.net.