Re: [Leica] good news about the lug scholarship ....

[Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>]

>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?
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Alastair Firkin

http://www.afirkin.com

http://www.familyofman2.com

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