After 12 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Robert Glen Ketchum, to see how his career has progressed.

Over the last decade, nature photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has continued using his imagery to help protect the ecosystem of Southwest Alaska and the Bristol Bay fishery from the development of the Pebble Mine, a project he began in 1998. In 2006, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, assembled a...

After 13 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Reid Callahan, to see how his career has progressed.

When Reid Callanan's PPOY profile was published in 1999, his Santa Fe Photographic Workshops endeavor was not quite a decade old and "still charting its course as a U.S.-based educational center at a time when the...

After 14 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Marita Holdaway, to see how his career has progressed.

Much has changed since we last profiled the founder of Seattle's Benham Gallery. After running one of the premier photographic venues in the city for 22 years, Marita Holdaway closed the venerable institution at the end of 2009. In the 11 years since she...

After 15 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Phil Borges, to see how his career has progressed.

Phil Borges was named PPOY in these pages in 1997, and could easily have won the award every year since then for his tireless work in support of the world's indigenous cultures. "I have continued doing social documentary work for a...

Discover, Unravel, Redefine Your Future: Chase Jarvis on new marketing strategies for photographers

Photographers hoping to flourish in the uncertain years ahead will need to adapt to numerous changes, including the rapid and ongoing developments in camera equipment, technology and social networking. Photographers also must have the willingness to learn an entirely new way of thinking when it comes to the marketing and distribution of their work...

In a quarter century, we've gone from lugging film canisters and developer trays to digital manipulation and cloud computing. What’s next on the photo technology horizon?

In 1987, photography was still a mystery to most people. The camera was a magical black box. The photographer was a magician who pushed the shutter button, which allowed light into the magic box and began the mysterious process of creating a permanent picture. The magic of photography took time. Photographers had more...

What photographers can expect to see in the near future

In 1987, just before the first issue of PhotoMedia was published, advancements in camera equipment happened at a relatively slow rate. There were always subtle improvements in film stock, optics and electronics, but most pro and consumer shooters at the time could buy equipment and expect it to last 20 to 30 years with a few add-ons and new lenses...

On the cover: Albert Watson's "Golden Boy, New York City, 1990," was shot using theatrical gold paint as makeup for a personal project following an advertising shoot.

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