Seattle photographer and Greenpeace freelancer Daniel Beltra recently received Pictures of the Year International's Global Vision Award, plus an Award of Excellence in the Nature Series category for his Greenpeace project, "Rainforest and the Antarctic," which documents the impact of global warming on the biodiverse polar region.

Beltra also took second place in the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism 2008 Awards in the Natural Habitat category for his photograph of...

Amy Gulick won the 2008 Philip Hyde Grant for her work in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The award was presented by the NANPA Foundation, an offshoot of the North American Nature Photography Association.

Gulick, of North Bend, Wash., is a photographer and writer specializing in conservation and natural history.

Her project will use photography to educate the public about why protecting the remaining intact watershed areas...

Danita Delimont, principal of Danita Delimont Stock Agency, has been named a 2008 Fellow by the North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA), recognizing her 28 years of service to the nature photography industry. The award was made at NANPA's 14th Annual Summit earlier this year.

Delimont, a charter member of NANPA, started her photography career with an 18-year association with photographer Wolfgang Kaehler. She was recently named co-president of...

Dith Pran, the former New York Times photojournalist known for his coverage of Cambodia in the 1970s, died March 30 at age 65 from pancreatic cancer.

The story of Cambodian-born Pran is chronicled in the Academy Award-winning 1984 movie "The Killing Fields."

Having taught himself English, he worked as a translator for the U.S. Military Assistance Command until 1965, when Cambodia severed ties with the United States. In the early 1970s, as Cambodia descended into civil war, Pran served as an interpreter for...

The International Photographic Council (IPC), a nongovernmental organization of the United Nations, has announced the recipients of its 10th annual IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards.

Honorees include Judy Herrmann, immediate past president of the American Society of Media Photographers; George Fulton, of Advertising Photographers of America; Ann Monteith, with Professional Photographers of America; George Davis, with Professional School Photographers Association International; and Marty LaVor, of the White House News Photographers Association.

Seattle photographer Adam Weintraub has stepped down as president of Blue Earth Alliance after concluding his third year to concentrate on personal projects.

Larry Ockene, a photographer and product manager at Microsoft, has been appointed the new president.

Chase Jarvis and Nadine Stellavato have been named...

Images captured by Seattle-based photographer Natalie Fobes from the Exxon Valdez oil spill were included as exhibits for plaintiff arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. Fobes had also been a witness for plaintiffs in the original 1994 trial against Exxon in Anchorage.

Fobes was one of the initial photographers to reach the spill in 1989. Her work was published in National Geographic magazine in August 1989 and January 1990, and has since been published in major publications worldwide.

Seattle-based photojournalist Tim Matsui and the FEAR (Friends Educating Against Rape) Project have been awarded a $22,300 Project Distribution Grant by the Open Society Institute of New York.

The grant will allow Matsui and FEAR to present to schools, community organizations and professional groups in the greater Seattle area. FEAR aims to combat sexual violence through the use of personal narrative and multimedia presentations.

The Brooks Institute has announced that visual journalism faculty member and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Rickman and his third-year student Mariah Tauger will attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in China as press photographers for NewSport Photo Agency.

For more than 25 years, Rickman has covered all aspects of Olympic-related sports and has developed an affiliation...

Award-winning photographer Robert "Bob" Holmes has joined Mountain Light Pictures (MLP) as a contributing photographer. MLP is home to the Galen Rowell Image Collection and represents a growing list of some of the finest working outdoor and nature photographers.

Holmes began his career by covering the British Everest Expedition in 1975. His subjects have ranged from snow leopards in Nepal to...