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<span class="text"><font color="#666666" class="text"> <style> <!-- .encloser { text-align: left; } .encloser th { text-align: left; } .encloser td { text-align: left; } .encloser caption { text-align: left; } --> </style> <span class="encloser"> <p> <strong>c: (210) 825-1449</strong></p> <p> <strong>e: alicia@aliciaphoto.com</strong></p> <p> <strong>Search for Images:</strong></p> <form action="http://pa.photoshelter.com/search" method="get"> <input name="I_DSC" size="15" type="text" /> <input align="absbottom" alt="Search PhotoShelter" border="0" height="25" src="http://pa.photoshelter.com/img/ext/search75x25.gif" type="image" width="75" /> <input name="I_USER_ID" type="hidden" value="U0000mr0iqKmiIIQ" /> <input name="_ACT" type="hidden" value="usrSearch" /> <input name="I_DSC_AND" type="hidden" value="t" /> <input name="U_ID" type="hidden" value="U0000mr0iqKmiIIQ" /></form> <div style="text-align: right;"> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /> <font size="3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;"> Alicia Wagner Calzada</span></font><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> photojournalist, leader, volunteer, wife, student of life</span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">member NPPA, ASMP, EP, ABA</span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> </div> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="/users/AliciaCalzada5614/docs/Imagewarathome004.jpg"><img align="right" alt="" border="1" hspace="10" src="/users/AliciaCalzada5614/docs/Imageclaras008.JPG" style="width: 328px; height: 220px;" vspace="10" /></a></span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alicia Wagner Calzada, is a photojournalist based in San Antonio, Texas.</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> In addition to my years as an independent photographer, I have worked as a staff photographer for The Orlando Sentinel, The Advocate (Baton Rouge), and Rumbo (San Antonio) and was an International Partner Photographer for Habitat for Humanity International. As the Advocacy Chair and a past president of the National Press Photographers Association, I have dedicated years to advocating for photographers and supporting the industry.<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> I have photographed some of the most famous and fabulous people in the world, but what I really love is finding extraordinary stories in ordinary life. As any good journalist knows, these stories are all around us. I look forward to telling your story.<br /> </span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> <p> <span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">What I can do for you</span></strong></span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> - Still photography •• corporate • editorial • advertising • documentary • news • sports • feature • portrait<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> - Photo editing, assigning and scheduling<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> - News and feature reporting and writing, ghostwriting and policy/position writing<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> - Photography instruction for youth and English as a Second Language speakers<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> - Advocacy and public relations</span></p> <p> - Legal Consulting, with expertise in photography and issues related to photography</p> <p> <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">International assignments accepted with assignment experience in Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia</span></em></p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> <p> <span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Where you've seen my work<img align="right" alt="" border="1" hspace="10" src="/users/AliciaCalzada5614/docs/Imagenews900px004.jpg" style="width: 317px; height: 213px;" vspace="10" /></strong><br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <br /> <strong>Corporate promotions:</strong> North American Development Bank, Habitat for Humanity International, Save the Children, The Hartford, Hyundai, Energizer, Dasani, Nestle, Wachovia, Tufts University, St. Mary's University, The University of Missouri. </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Lots of magazines:</strong> TIME Magazine; National Geographic Kids; US News &World Report; Christianity Today; CSP Magazine; Texas Highways Magazine; TEXAS, Houston Chronicle Magazine; Better Nutrition Magazine; TEA A Magazine; Habitat World; News Photographer; Rail Magazine; American Legion Magazine; American Banker. </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Lots of Newspapers and websites :</strong> Education Week, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Hartford Courant, The Baltimore Sun, USA TODAY, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, , Philadelphia Inquirer, San Antonio Express-News, Austin American Statesman, Orlando Sentinel, New Haven Register, MySA.com, America Online, MSNBC.com. </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Books:</strong> "Hurricane Katrina", TIME Books, 2005; "Texas 24/7", DK Publishing, 2004; "America 24/7", DK Publishing, 2003; "One Family at a Time", Habitat for Humanity, 2001.<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> <br /> </span></p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="font-weight: bold;">What I've learned</font></span><br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Most of what I learned was on the mean streets of the world, which I have found to be not so mean. But I have read some books too. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I received a Bachelor of Journalism in Photojournalism from The University of Texas at Austin. I was also "this close," to an anthropology degree. I figured there were more jobs in photojournalism than anthropology. Hmmmm. </span></p> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;">In addition to my photography, I graduated from St. Mary's School of Law in San Antonio, Texas in December of 2010 and I am an attorney practicing in San Antonio which I find very rewarding and intelectually stimulating • student liason for the </span><a href="http://www.abanet.org/forums/communication/scholarships.html"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ABA Forum on Communications Law 2008 scholarship</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> • Dean's List • 2008 Institute of World Legal Problems, Innsbruck, Austria (instructors included Chief Justice of the United States, John G. Roberts, Jr. ) • 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Dean's Scholarship award.<br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> </span></p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Other things I do and have done</span></strong><br style="font-family: Verdana;" /> <br /> </span></p> <ul> <li> <span style="font-family: Arial;">As the NPPA Advocacy Chair and an attorney for the NPPA, I guide the organization through policy decisions, review of legal efforts, lobbying efforts, promoting photographers rights and supporting the industry.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li> <span style="font-family: Arial;">As NPPA president in 2005-2006, served as spokesperson, wrote monthly column, worked with other journalism and photography groups, advocated on behalf of photojournalists, supervised executive director, all committees, the board of directors and the executive committee. NPPA is one of the largest journalism groups in the country with 9,500 members, a $1.5 million budget, eight annual conferences, a monthly magazine and five employees. </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Other NPPA positions held: NPPA Past President, 2006-present, NPPA Vice President, 2004-05; Founder and Chair of NPPA Advocacy Committee, 2003-present; Region 8 Associate Director, 2002-04, Exec. Dir. Hiring Committee member, 2006-2007.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Initiated the following NPPA services: NPPA Advocacy Committee; NPPA Cost of Doing Business Calculator; NPPA Find-a-Photographer service; Independent Photographer’s Toolkit; NPPA Photojournalism Summit. <br /> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Planned and organized the following conferences: NPPA Photojournalism Summit 2006; Best of Photojournalism Conference 2005; Flying Short Course 2005 in Austin; Flying Short Course 2003 in San Antonio. Contributed to: 2007 NPPA Photojournalism Summit; 2007 Women in Photojournalism Coference.</span></li> </ul> <p> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><font style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fun</span></span></font></span><font size="2" style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></font> (every now and then, I try to have a litte)</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Besides the fact that I love my job.... I love to learn. I like to cook. I love to eat. I love to bike through the Salado Creek Greenway. I love to spend time with my awesome family and my talented and wonderful <a href="http://billycalzada.com/">husband</a>. I have a cat named Treo who I really like.<br /> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> <a href="http://www.aliciaphoto.com/gallery.html?gallery=personal" style="font-family: Verdana;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Personal Photos</span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> • </span> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciacalzada" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">LinkedIn Profile</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> • </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Alicia_Calzada/594733471"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Facebook Profile</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> • </span><a href="http://www.photoblawg.com"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My Blog: www.photoblawg.com<u> </u></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">• <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/aliciaphoto" target="_blank">Follow me on Twitter</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> </span> </font></span><br> <h1> Alicia Wagner Calzada is a corporate and editorial photographer based in San Antonio, Texas and available for assignments throughout the United States and abroad. 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