Orphaned African elephants captured the hearts of Portland photographer Gerry
Ellis and a United Paramount Network (UPN) television crew on a recent assignment
outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Ellis filmed five rescued baby elephants for "Wild
Things" as part of his third segment in less than six months for that network
program. While air time for this episode hadn’t been determined at press time,
preview images of the young elephants can be seen on Ellis’ web site, www.gerryellis.com.
Natalie Fobes recently completed assignments for National
Geographic Traveler and Travel Holiday magazines. Traveler published her story
on what’s new in Seattle in the May 2000 issue, and her Travel Holiday piece
on Alaska’s wilderness lodges will run in January 2001.
In June, Fobes made presentations on two panels at Photo Expo West
in Los Angeles; she also showed recent work from the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico and her
cedar project as part of a panel entitled "Cultures on the Edge." She was also
part of Blue Earth Alliance’s workshop "Photography Projects: Project Management
and Sponsorship."
Mark Gaba, January’s grand prize winner of
PhotoTrust’s OnlinePhotoContest.com photography contest, licensed his $5,000 winning
image to Fidelity Investments for an advertising campaign that is running nationally.
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) recently honored
23 individuals in the photojournalism industry. One of two winners of the highest honor,
the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, was John Goheen, a Denver,
Colo.-based freelance photographer and producer. Goheen, who was recognized as the
national Television News Photographer of the Year in 1989 while working at KOMO Television
in Seattle, has won more than 300 local, regional and national awards in his career.
ArtLight Studio’s Dan Harlacher recently
received two awards from the Professional Photographers of America. Harlacher’s
"I’ve Got the Blues" image was chosen for the General Exhibit Collection,
and his "White Torso with Tulip" was selected for the prestigious National Loan
Collection.
Oregon photographer Chris Hauth won first place in
the Plant Life category of the Nature’s Best International Photography Competition.
Winners of the competition will have their images displayed in a print show at the
Smithsonian. Nature’s Best magazine will fly the participants to Washington,
D.C. in October for the opening at the Smithsonian Institution. The show, which will be at
the Smithsonian for three months and then may travel, is sponsored by Epson.
PhotoResource magazine has selected the online portfolio of
Seattle-based photographer Michael Hipple (www.hipphoto.com) from more
than 700 websites as the best photography web-site for the year 2000. His recent clients
include Shift magazine, Metropolitan Living, Microsoft, United Airlines and
Seattle’s Best Coffee.
Wolfgang Kaehler’s recent assignments and
extended forays into both Asia and the Canadian Rockies have resulted in a major
contribution to his stock photography offerings for Japan, China, South Korea and Canada.
Jacqueline M. Koch, a Seattle photographer, was one
of eight journalists awarded Pew Fellowships in International Journalism. The fellowship
will include a seven-week study program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies prior to a five-week reporting assignment in West Kalimantan,
Indonesia.
Los Angeles-based photographer Floyd Leroy recently
won first prize in the 2000 Project Competition awards sponsored by the Santa Fe Center
for Visual Arts. His "The Accra Journals" focused on a small city located on the
West African coast.
Janis Miglavs, a Sherwood, Ore.-based photographer
and owner of Image Source, has just returned from Senegal, where he kicked off a long-term
study project entitled "Endangered Cultures." Describing the project’s goal
as a way to "…glean and preserve the wisdom and knowledge of traditional
cultures before they disappear under the global flood of westernized ways," Miglavs
will next head to Bhutan and Laos.
Tara Powers, formerly the studio manager for
photographer C. Bruce Forster, has been promoted to director of Viewfinders, a Portland,
Ore.-based stock photography agency founded by Forster. Replacing Powers as Forster’s
studio manager is Sonja Schluchter.
Art Institute of Seattle instructor Michael Riedel
took time off from his teaching and his private client base to photograph 14 Washington
state firefighters for a fund-raising calendar benefiting the Washington State Council of
Fire Fighters Burn Foundation. Now in its fifth year, the project has raised more than
$175,000 for the organization.
Insights and images from 10 years of studying and photographing
penguins in their native habitats can be found in Seattle photographer Kevin
Schafer’s new book, Penguin Planet. Schafer, a former seabird
biologist and naturalist, was the 1997 recipient of the Gerald Durrell Award for
photography of endangered species and has contributed to such publications as National
Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Natural History and Outside magazine.
Published by NorthWord Books, Penguin Planet is available in bookstores this month.
Travis Scheidegger, a student at the Art Institute
of Seattle, was recently awarded a $500 scholarship from Glazer’s Camera Supply.
Scheidegger graduated from the Art Institute on Sept. 22 and works at LaTona Productions
as a studio associate specializing in digital work.
Greg Schurman of Schurman’s Photography Studio
has been named British Columbia’s Photographer of the Year by the Professional
Photographers’ Association of BC. To qualify, professional photographers from the
province must submit four of their finest images for evaluation. The images are then
judged on impact, creativity and technical excellence by a panel of qualified
"Masters of Photography" judges from across North America.
This year’s competition was held April 1 in Kananaskis,
Alberta. More than 300 professional photographers gathered to share ideas and expand their
own skills by studying with some of the top professionals in the industry. In addition to
his title, Schurman received the "Best in Class" trophy for his architectural
print as well as the Judge’s Choice Award for his entry in fashion.
Greg Vaughn of Eugene, Ore., won the Gold Prize for
Best Portfolio at the Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter meeting in Reno,
Nev. Vaughn was a participant in the "Photographers’ Shootout," an event
based loosely on the popular "Day in the Life" projects. Each photographer is
provided with 10 rolls of film, courtesy of Fujifilm USA, and is assigned a subject by the
host visitors bureau. All photographs must be taken during a specified 24-hour period. In
addition to the prestige of the award and recognition by his peers in the travel industry,
Vaughn received a nine-day package of lodging and activities in the Flathead Valley area
of Montana.
David Walega of Seattle was awarded Best of Show
and $1,000 from more than 300 entries in the 2000 a.k.a. photography exhibit at
Seattle’s Benham Gallery. His winning entry was a series of three images entitled
"Mercer Slough." Second place and $500 went to Davis Freeman of Seattle and
third place and $250 went to Roger Porter of Portland, Ore. a.k.a. photography is
sponsored by Rainier Photographic Supply of Seattle and is designed to showcase the best
photographic images created with Polaroid films and processes while raising money for
charitable causes.
Bellevue, Wash.-based photographer Andrea Wells was
an award winner in the Landscape/Nature category of American Photo’s annual contest.
Her photos have appeared recently in AAA Journey, Alaska Airlines, Outdoor
Photographer, and Travel Holiday magazines and in Audubon calendars.
