Michael Acord, of ArtLight Studios in Eugene, Ore., was awarded the Certified Award in Professional Photographers of America’s annual competition for marketing excellence, the AN-NE Awards. The studio’s web site, artlightstudios.com, also ranked as a finalist in the Internet Promotions division. The site will be featured at Imaging USA, PPA’s annual convention, to be held...

She was awarded Best of Category in three categories at a competition conducted by the Seattle Professional Photographers Association. In addition to her awards in the Illustration, Electronic Artist and Photographic Commercial categories, one of her entries received...

Steven Scardina Photography, based in Portland, Ore., has completed work for the new product line promotion of Four Corners Home Collection, set to debut at the Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market.

Other projects include work for via design to promote Roger’s Instruments’ new touring organ, an advertising campaign for Cabazon Design for Genoa Restaurant, and Canterbury Real Estate Services’ promotional materials for Boise Outlet Mall.

Among the many photographers whose projects are being sponsored by the Blue Earth Alliance this year is Subhankar Banerjee, who is currently working in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Banarjee, a freelance photographer specializing in wildlife, environmental and cultural photography, will document the year-round biodiversity of the refuge and its two indigenous cultures, the Gwichi’in Athabascan Indians and the Inupiat Eskimos. The project is designed to create a conservation book in collaboration with natural history and cultural writers.

Anna Mia Davidson’s latest effort is called “Beyond The Cliche: The Positive Influences from the Cuban Revolution.” The vision for the project is to photographically narrate...

Richard Duval’s most recent project is a CD-sized calendar produced by Watermark Press using PhotoTunes images as a promotion for the printer’s new Indigo digital image technology. PhotoTunes.com is an e-card site that uses original scenic photography and original studio-quality music.

Other recent stock projects by the artist include Microvision and Graphica Communications Solutions.

Mark Brodie and Mark Waldron, a team of photographers who call themselves the Digital Dawgs, have hired Jarrod Weaton, a veteran of the commercial photography and the print community in San Francisco and Los Angeles, to help with marketing and new business development.

The Dawgs have also recently opened a 5,100-square-foot studio with a 40 x 45-foot, two-wall Cyc, one of the largest in the Rocky Mountain region. More information about the Dawgs can be found at digitaldawgs.com.

Stephen Marc, a professional photographer and professor at Arizona State University, has created a series of digital montages that focus on the spirit of African American culture and illustrate different aspects of black history.

Each montage incorporates a variety of equipment and software programs, including 3D scanners and 35mm and digital cameras. “I generally work with...

David Giles has joined Menuez Pictures, based in Sausalito, Calif., as production head. Most recently, Giles was senior art director at Campbell Ewald in Detroit, where he won a Telly Award for Chevrolet’s 2000 Olympics spot. Prior to that, he was at Grey Advertising Worldwide in New York. Currently known for print advertising campaigns, Menuez Pictures hopes to expand into film with Giles on board.

Donna Garrett is the newest staff member at Wolfgang Kaehler Photography in Bellevue, Wash. Garrett has 15 years of experience in stock photography, having worked at Tony Stone Images (formerly Allstock), Corbis, Discovery Channel, Time-Life Books and Seattle’s Experience Music Project, to name just a few.

Steven Smith, an event, editorial, catalogue and fine-art photographer from Vancouver, was awarded an honorable mention in the 2002 Northwest Exhibition of Environmental Photography for his photo entitled “Polar Bear Exhibit.” He is the first British Columbian to be honored by the annual juried competition.