Frans Lanting's multimedia project, "Life: A Journey Through Time," was featured on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day" in late July. The broadcast is available from the NPR archives, at www.npr.org.

Lanting envisioned the project as a lyrical interpretation of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to its present diversity. The musical version was produced by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, in collaboration with visual designer Alexander V. Nichols and composer Philip Glass. Conductor Marin Alsop also appeared on the program.

French photojournalist Catherine Leroy, who covered the Vietnam War as well as many other global conflicts, died of cancer on July 8. She was 60.

In 1966, at the age of 21, Leroy packed up her Leica and bought a one-way ticket to Vietnam. While photographing the combat, she was wounded with a Marine unit in the DMZ, and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army during the 1968 Tet offensive. Her views of the North Vietnamese Army in action landed her a Life cover.

In 1972, Leroy shot and directed "Operation Last Patrol," a film about...

The Advertising Photographers of America has elected Don Dormeyer, a portrait photographer from Orange County, Calif., president of the organization. Dormeyer succeeds George Fulton, who had served as APA's national president for the past three years.

Other new officers include Martin Trailer, San Diego, senior vice president; Matthew Klein, New York City, vice president; Jon Silla, Charlotte, N.C., vice president; Paul Nurnberg, Savannah, Ga., secretary; and George Simian, Los Angeles, treasurer.

Photographer Andy Batt, of Portland, Ore., has been awarded an Adidas photography contract for the second year in a row. Batt and his crew traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where their task was to create 40 images of runners and trainers.

Batt is the principal photographer for Andy Batt Studio, which he co-owns with his wife, Therese Gietler, and is the co-president of the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers. His work can be seen at andybatt.com.

Seattle's Gary Benson recently traveled to Glacier National Park in Montana to photograph Tom Brokaw for a Discovery Channel/NBC Universal documentary on global warming. Other recent work includes environmental portraits for T-Mobile and Cascade Designs. His images can be seen at garybensonphoto.com.

Joe Rosenthal, made famous by his World War II photograph of soldiers raising an American flag over Iwo Jima, died Aug. 20 at age 94 in Novato, Calif.

His iconic Iwo Jima image, taken with a Speed Graphic camera set at 1/400th of a second on Feb. 23, 1945, is considered one of the most famous and reproduced photographs of all time, earning Rosenthal a Pulitzer Prize.

Rosenthal, who was born in Washington, D.C., moved to San Francisco in 1930 and found work as a photographer...

Larry McNeil's project, "Keet Hit," has received an international award from the All Roads Film Project, sponsored by National Geographic, with the goal of promoting the work of indigenous and under-represented minority-culture filmmakers, photographers and artists. "Keet Hit" was named a Photographic Essay of Distinction.

McNeil, who was raised in Alaska, is a member of the Northern Tlingit tribe and considers himself a product of both traditional Tlingit culture and...

Photographer Mona Brooks' work recently was featured in "Project Runway," Le Monde and Europa. Brooks is in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She also is putting together a book, "unConventional, YearlyKos: Citizens, Focus and Action." More information is available at monabrooks.com.

Photojournalist Gordon Parks, known for his work with Life magazine as well as for directing films, died at his home in New York City on March 7, at the age of 93.

Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kan., in 1912, the youngest of 15 children. In 1941, he became the first photographer to receive a fellowship from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. He joined the staff of the Farm Security Administration and, later, the Office of War Information, whose combined collection of documentary photographs is among the...

The International Center of Photography recently announced the winners of its 2006 Infinity Awards. Don McCullin, a photojournalist who spent nearly 20 years as a correspondent for London's Sunday Times Magazine, was the recipient of the Cornell Capa Award, named for ICP's founding director. The organization's Lifetime Achievement Award was bestowed upon Lee Friedlander.

Also honored were Dutch photographer Ahmet Polat, as the year's Young Photographer; German Thomas Ruff, in the Art category; Time magazine's...