Documenting his travels through Ecuador
and the Philippines and his encounters with tribal people and their spiritual healers,
Seattle photographer Phil Borges recently completed two film
documentaries for the Discovery Channel. The productions will be aired as part of
Discovery’s Trailblazers series.Still images from
these two trips—as well as travels to Siberia and Mongolia—will be included in a
Borges exhibit opening July 7 at Seattle’s Benham Studio Gallery.
Antonio Butt and Pedro Castellano—friends
and graduates of the Brooks Institute of Photography—have embarked on a photo
expedition to Chiapas, Mexico, to obtain evidence of Mayan archaeological ruins and
artifacts that are in that area, many of them submerged. They’ll be the first
underwater expedition team to film the endemic aquatic life of Lake Miramar, which no one
has ever seen before.
Because Lake Miramar is located in the territory controlled by the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation, few have ever explored the archaeological resources
of the area, and there has been no documentation of the underwater ruins at all. The
expedition follows preliminary trips in which Butt and Castellano obtained cooperation
from the Zapatistas, the Chol Maya residents and the regional governmental authorities.
They also lined up sponsorships from Agfa Photo, Calumet, Ilford Imaging USA and Gitzo. A
professional dive master and two scientists will complete the expedition team. To check on
their progress, visit www.brooks.edu.
Dan Harlacher and Michael Acord of
ArtLight Studios have won several awards from the Professional Photographers of Oregon.
Harlacher received the Edris Morrison Trophy for best bridal portrait, the Henry D. Fehly
Trophy for best black-and-white portrait and a Judge’s Choice award for an image
titled Cascade. Harlacher also received an award for best photograph of a teenage
girl and a second Judge’s Choice award for an image entitled I’ve Got the
Blues.
Acord received two Judge’s Choice awards for his image The
Sandman. Both artists’ award-winning works were also chosen to appear in the 2000
Court of Honor, a collection of the state’s best photographs.
Seattle-based photographer Natalie Fobes is highly
visible these days, both in person and in print. Outdoor Photographer magazine
profiled her in the January 2000 issue, and her work on "What’s New in
Seattle" appears in National Geographic Traveler’s May 2000 issue.
In June, Fobes will make presentations on two panel discussions at
PhotoPlus Expo West in Los Angeles and will also be part of Blue Earth Alliance’s
workshop "Photography Projects: Project Management and Sponsorship."
Additionally, Travel Holiday magazine has scheduled Fobes’ story on Alaskan
wilderness lodges for the January 2001 issue.
Tacoma artist Judy Horn earned multiple awards at
the Annual Educational Conference and Print Competition in Olympia. Horn earned first,
second and third place awards in electronic imaging, two Judge’s Choice designations,
an Artist of the Year award, a Best Artist in Electronic Imaging award and a Best of Show
designation for her image titled Coffee at Grandma’s.
Examples of Horn’s work are currently on display at the Art
Concepts on Broadway Gallery in Tacoma.
Another Tacoma-based photographer, Kevin McGowan,
won several trophies at the 2000 Professional Photographers of Washington state print
competition. McGowan received trophies for Best General Commercial photograph and Best
Advertising Illustration as well as the Roger Dudley trophy for Best Single Commercial
Image.
McGowan also won the C.C. Yang trophy for highest aggregate score in
the Commercial Division and was honored with two Kodak Gallery Awards for commercial and
digital imaging.
Seattle photographer George White has turned the
demolition of a landmark into near full-time work. Earlier this year, White recorded the
work involved in destroying the Kingdome, for developer First and Goal, Inc., culminating
in aerial helicopter views of the actual implosion (see page 18 of this issue).
White’s portraits of the implosion contractors, the Loizeaux family, are being used
by the BBC for its television documentary for the Learning Channel, and he’ll
continue to monitor the progress of the new Washington State Football/Soccer Stadium
through 2002.
Noted wildlife and nature photographer Art Wolfe has
won yet another award—an Eisie Award this time—together with Audubon
magazine. The Alfred Eisenstaedt Magazine Photography Award was presented to Wolfe in New
York City for a March/April 1999 Audubon feature entitled "Hidden
Existence." The winning photographs will appear in a special spring issue of LIFE magazine.
New images by Wolfe will be seen in The Living Wild, his
first self-published book, and in Colorado, his latest work for Sasquatch Books,
both due out this fall. Wolfe’s unique gallery/store collaborations with Recreational
Equipment Inc. (REI) will expand this year as well; besides his current location in
REI’s Seattle flagship store, Wolfe will have retail gallery space in the brand-new
Denver, Colo., and Japan REI locations.
