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DPA Instructor Liaison Jennifer Olsen feature in Group Exhibition on October 22d: RANT

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We'll be missing Jen in October but she is on an important mission from the 12th - 20th working on a documentary in Haiti!

Kitty in a Bag!

Olive and Gus Gus Love to Snuggle!

NEW LITTLE BUNNY IN THE HOUSE!

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Titus oversees all activities here at DPA Headquarters.

DPA Has Company!

This month Boston DPA Instructor Kathy Tarantola stopped by DPA HQ and took a photo of one of our favorite kitties in a basket, Olive!

The Dirty Urchins perform at Digital Photo Academy Headquarters!

CLICK HERE to hear some music by The Dirty Urchins!

Digital Photo Academy in the Photo Industry Reporter!

Take a Look at our new addition to Digital Photo Academy ~

Gus-Gus the kitten!

Gus Gus and Olive stare down a pigeon, which daily frequents our fire escape.

Gus Gus and Felix survey the street.

Brandon Remler, Friend of Digital Photo Academy snapped this photo of Rabinowitz when we were out with John Bentham planning a number of special videos for the students in NYC.

DPA President and Founder Richard Rabinowitz mugging it up for the camera with his friend, a monk from a Shaolin temple in China.

ON PROBATION

A little joke for our newest addition to the crew: Dan Enfield...

We don't REALLY require a Dr's note when someone's out sick but we are know to make surprise house visits!

Digital Photo Academy in Skagit Valley!

Last month the DPA team joined Wolfgang Kaehler 's Advanced Workshop in photographing the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Check out the images Advanced DPA Student Josh Weisberg shot to document the fun!

Our Fearless Leader, Richard Rabinowitz and his wife, famed photographer, Jill Enfield.

The Digital Photo Academy Mascots!

The Heart and Soul of Digital Photo Academy, our mascots get us through it all!

TITUS: Our fearless defender: ring our doorbell and you will hear his bark!

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Olive: Friendly, fluffy and happy to cram into any basket available, our own Garfield, Olive catches the winks the hard working DPA staff have little time for.

Recently, the DPA team headed out west and visited with famed photographer Phil Borges in Seattle. Here are some video highlights of a wonderful dinner at Phil and his wife Julee's house:

GOODBYE AMY!

Yes, our beloved Amy is moving on. And we will surely miss her! Beyond her significant and far reaching contribution to the well being of the program and ourselves, it will not be the same without her nutty humor and amusing antics. As you have seen in her top quality cookbook, live to eat, (click here to preview on www.blurb.com), comprised of luscious images and scrumptious recipes, Amy is a talented photographer who is only just beginning to make her mark.

In addition to her regular visits and occasional production with us at DPA headquarters, I expect that all of us will be hearing lots of great things about projects completed by Amy. I encourage all of you to keep in touch with Amy, which you can do so at the following email address: info@aejacksonphotography.com.

Now that Jenn Warren is on assignment in various nations throughout Africa, and Amy Jackson has moved on to the next phase of her career, it is my pleasure to introduce Jennifer Olsen and Beth Bates:

Ironically, Jennifer Olsen comes from the same ground swell of talent and dedication as did Jennifer Warren, the offices of world renowned photojournalist, Steve McCurry. You know of Steve McCurry from his many coffee table photography books and most likely from his iconic image of the green eyed girl from Afghanistan, that has been instrumental in enlightening the public of the ongoing crisis in the Afghanistan.

Like Warren, Olsen possesses the same unexplainable but powerful inner drive that long term, will render her part of the solution to the ills of our world. In the meantime she will be contending with the trials and tribulations of organizing matters across 20 venues, 55 instructors, and a couple of thousand DPA students each year. A good portion of her readiness to take on this challenge comes from her past experience as Communications Coordinator for Steve McCurry. Before that was traveling throughout Europe and schooling at SUNY New Paltz where she received a degree in Photography and Sociology.

Also we have Beth Bates, who will be manning the phones and working with those 2,300 students annually. We first encountered Miss Bates as an assistant that was working with Jill Enfield, the wife of DPA President Richard Rabinowitz. She is committed to a long term and rewarding career in Fine Art photography: which she thinks should begin at Digital Photo Academy where she has heard that she will casually and frequently be mixing with the world's most accomplished shooters from every aspect of the field (at least that is the rumor that is connected with Digital Photo Academy, feel free to judge for yourself).

Beth is a graduate from the Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY, with a BFA in Fine Art. This is where she received the Thelma B. Rudey Award for Excellence in Art. As a photographer, Beth's commercial clients include American Lung Association, Common Ground Community, Vanity Fair, Fangoria, and Fox News. As an artist, she has exhibited her work in New York, Hong Kong, and Joplin. Beth is currently in the process of launching her brand of usable artfully made objects called Emblem by Elizabeth M.B. She offers letterpressed and screen printed items that incorporate imagery of running animals and antique lace onto recycled vintage wears.