Seattle photographer Ford Gilbreath won the 1999 Betty Bowen Memorial Award out of a field of 293 applicants from Oregon, Idaho and Washington.

The $10,000 award was established by friends of Betty Bowen (1918-1977), a Washington native and enthusiastic supporter of Northwest artists. Gilbreath has been showing his work throughout the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, including a current display in Seattle’s Esther Claypool Gallery.

Dick Busher, Seattle-based Cosgrove Editions’ publisher, won a Benny in the 1999 Printing Industries of America Premier Printing Awards for the bi-annual publication Northwest Photography. The Benny, short for Benjamin Franklin, is the Best in Category award. Another Cosgrove publication, Kagedo Japanese Art was runner up in the same category, which was Stochastic Printing.

The Photographic Center Northwest has embarked on a new phase of development by saying goodbye to Alin Shether as president. Shether began over ten years ago with a darkroom rental business and gradually expanded her vision of a unique photographic arts center.

Today’s PCNW at Twelfth and Marion in downtown Seattle boasts a gallery, rental darkrooms, classes, workshops and a school offering an...

Randy Wells of Bellevue, Washington has received another award for his self-promotional Christmas ornament, this time featured in GRAPHIS' Promotions Design 1 Annual. Randy’s photos also grace the pages of Outdoor Photographer and several year 2000 calendars, including Audubon and the Sierra Club.

In between recent stock shoots in Germany, Washington, Oregon and California, Randy has squeezed in assignments for Sunset Magazine, AAA's Journey Magazine, Fikse Wheels and Berringer Winery’s Annual Report.

Santa Barbara, California’s Brooks Institute of Photography won the Gold Medal for Best Multi-Image Documentary at last fall’s Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Competitions in San Diego. 20 Students and one faculty member produced the award winning 10-projector multimedia documentary, entitled Mekong – A Dragon’s Tale, which depicts life along Southeast Asia’s mighty Mekong River.

Eugene, Oregon photographer Greg Vaughn was recently accepted for membership by the Society of American Travel Writers. Acceptance is based on a review by peer professionals of the applicant’s recently published work. SATW is the world’s largest professional organization of travel writers, photographers, editors and publicists.

Vaughn’s photos have appeared in National Geographic, Islands, Natural History, Sunset, Travel & Leisure, Outside and many other...

Photographers John Gateley and Joseph DeRenzo of Panoramics Northwest, Inc. were commissioned to document the painting of a Boeing 777 for the City of New York as the official NYC 2000 aircraft. World renowned artist and NYC resident Peter Max designed the paint scheme, which took the paint-crew five 24-hour days to apply and added more than 900 pounds to the aircraft.

With DeRenzo on board, the inaugural flight left Boeing Field on the morning of...

Allan Mandell of Portland, Oregon continues to pursue his specialty of garden photography in his new book Garden Retreats: Creating an Outdoor Sanctuary, which will be published by Chronicle Books in March.

This project, a collaboration with garden writer Barbara Ashmun, features gardens of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Mandell, whose work appears in magazines such as Fine Gardening, Sunset and Garden Design, received two 1999 Quill & Trowel Awards for Photography from the Garden Writers Association of America.