Momenta is getting excited for 1-Day Biz Skills: DC workshop! 

We are delighted to announce our panelists for the 1-Day Biz Skills: DC workshop on November 14, 2016 at the Leica Store in Washington, D.C. The panel will include Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and filmmaker Lucian Perkins, photographer and author of Best Business Practices for Photographers John Harrington, and photographer and NGO Storytelling website founder, Laura Elizabeth Pohl. Jamie Rose, our Director of Workshops, will lead our core lectures: How to Fund Your Dream Projects and Turning Nonprofits into Paying Clients.

Lucian Perkins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and an independent photographer and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. Lucian’s focus on documenting human-interest stories encompasses daily life and social issues in the United States as well as conflicts and crisis overseas. His most recent documentary film projects include: “The Syrian Refugee Crisis,” for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, brings to light the plight of 2.5 million Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war, and “No Place Like Home,” for Orb Media, explores Intimate Partner Violence in Nicaragua, Sweden and Uganda. As staff photographer at The Washington Post for more than 20 years, Lucian received his first Pulitzer Prize for collaboration with Post reporter Leon Dash on their four-year study of the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C., family through the eyes of the matriarch. His second was for coverage of the Kosovo conflict. Additional awards include “Newspaper Photographer of the Year” by the National Press Photographers Association and “World Press Photo of the Year.” Lucian’s recent book, Hard Art, DC, captures the beginning of the Washington, D.C., punk-music scene in 1979 while revealing its reverberating impact today. In award-winning, Runway Madness, he delivers a ringside tongue-in-cheek look at the New York fashion shows.

John Harrington is a Washington DC-based photographer and business guru has photographed the world of politics, international travel and news. John is famous for his book series, Best Business Practices for Photographers, and is considered every working photographer’s mentor with his video and blogs on business trends. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and numerous other publications. His commercial clients include Coca-Cola, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Lockheed Martin, and the National Geographic Society. John has produced three commissioned books for the Smithsonian and he lectures frequently around the country on the topic of business practices. His is the past President of the White House News Photographers Association and is a current board member of the National Press Photographers Association and ASMP: American Society of Media Photographers. Whether pets or Presidents, leading ladies or lead singers, John can help you drive clients to your company and keep your businesses thriving.

Laura Elizabeth Pohl runs a business photographing, filming, and editing for international nonprofit clients, helping build awareness of issues including maternal health, entrepreneurship and post-disaster recovery. She has worked in nearly 20 countries and slept in some uncomfortable beds along the way, but she truly enjoys what she thinks is the best job ever. In 2012, she started the NGO Storytelling website to inspire and inform humanitarian storytellers. Laura is currently based in Baltimore.

Jamie Rose has worked as an international photojournalist on five continents, won awards and grants for her documentary photography and has been a contract photographer with some of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations. 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, Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation, and Physicians for Human Rights among others. Jamie is considered an expert in nonprofit photography business development. She has been featured in Photo District News (PDN), News Photographer Magazine, and numerous online publications, podcasts, and conferences about the importance of nonprofit documentary photography. In 2011, she was awarded the United Nations’ Photographers Leadership Award for her contributions to the field of photojournalism.

You can learn to use your photography as a force of change by signing up for this workshop today.