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Summary of important dates/times

• The reviews are Saturday, April 11. All posted times are Eastern Time
• Reviewer schedules with reviewee portfolio links will be available April 9.
• If you have morning reviews, plan to check in with all reviewers/reviewees at 8:45am ET in the General Hangout Room. Link provided later.
• If you only have afternoon reviews, please check in at the General Hangout Room at 1:00pm ET. 
• For all review sessions, please arrive to your assigned breakout room 5 minutes in advance.
• The breakout rooms will remain open the entire day. Each reviewer will be assigned a breakout room that will be theirs throughout the reviews, and you just need to be there at the scheduled time. 

Overall schedule
Please click here for the detailed schedule for the reviews. 

Your detailed schedule
Reviewer schedules with reviewee portfolio links will be available April 9.

Note that your schedule may change slightly up until the day of the reviews, so please refer to the online version which is always the most up-to-date. Your final schedule will include the name and time of the photographer you will be meeting with and a URL to view the photographer's portfolio if they submitted it in advance. In many cases, this will be a gallery on the SDN website, but it doesn’t need to be. Your schedule will also include a link to your Zoom room. Your self-titled breakout room will remain the same throughout the day.

General hangout and tech support room
This room is available throughout the day for everyone--just to hangout. You can also enter a breakout room from this main room for Tech Support if needed. 
The link for this will be on your schedule and later posted to this page.

Tech support phone number
TBD

How the portfolio reviews will be structured
All the review sessions will be conducted in two separate Zoom rooms--the Margaret Bourke White and Gordon Park rooms. Each Zoom room will have approximately 16-20 breakout rooms named for each reviewer. You will meet all your reviewees throughout the day in the breakout room with your name. 

Your Zoom room and breakout room will not change between review sessions. Only the photographers will need to navigate across the individual rooms throughout the day.

Five minutes before the start of each review session, you should make sure you are in your assigned breakout room. If you keep your room open on your computer all day, you never need to reenter the main Zoom room after first checking in. You just need to make sure you are in your self-titled breakout room at the correct time. If you leave your breakout room, you will need to enter first through the main Zoom room to access your breakout room again. Each of the two main Zoom rooms will have a volunteer captain to assist you in case you need any help.

During the 25-minute review session:

• This year the default is that you will share the portfolio but you are welcome to change that during the review session. The reason is that we have found image quality is degraded when you view work through Zoom. If you are viewing the work yourself directly through a browser, the quality is much better.
• The preferred web gallery is the photographer's gallery on the SDN web platform. But they may instead provide a gallery from their own website. This is absolutely fine.
• Video recording will not be an option, but photographers may request permission to make a sound recording using their phone or a digital recorder.
• You will see a warning time five minutes before end of review, but it is up to the reviewer to end the review at the appropriate time.

First-time Reviewer Training
Thursday, March 26, 3:00 pm
This is an optional training for reviewers who have not participated in the SDN Reviews previously or if you just want a refresher. We will reach out to reviewers with information.
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 896 3279 3131
Passcode: TRAINING

Reviewers Choice Award
If you signed up to be a juror for the Reviewers Choice Award, your ballots are due Friday, April 10. Projections of Reviewers Choice Award submissions and winners announced: 5:00–5:30 pm ET the day of the reviews.

Closing Panel: The Photo Editor's Perspective
A panel with four leading photo editors talking about what they look for, how to pitch to them, and how to create a portfolio for long term success  
Free for Reviews participants. $20 for general public.
More information to come.

Payment to Reviewers
Just a reminder that we are offering payment of $60 per review block of three reviews regardless of the actual number of reviews in the block. You will also have the option to give some or all of this back to SDN as a tax-deductible donation (we are a nonprofit). Click here to enter payment choice and information any time up until April 22. 

Questions prior to reviews
Please email glenn@socialdocumentary.net.