After seven years, photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, of Venice, Calif., has decided to leave the VII photo agency to work at a multi-platform management and production company run by her husband, Frank Evers.

The new company, Institute for Artist Management, launched in beta form in September...

Seattle photographer Natalie Fobes, known for her work in National Geographic, Audubon and Smithsonian, is scheduled to give her third presentation at a Wedding & Portrait Photographers International conference, this one in Las Vegas in March 2010.

Fobes' lecture, titled "Putting Landscape into Portraiture," will elucidate how to best use light...

Tacoma, Wash.-based photographer Gene Eckhart's photo project, "Mountain Gorillas . . . and People: Understanding the Connections and Why They Matter," has been accepted for support by Seattle's Blue Earth Alliance foundation. The project is designed to promote mountain gorilla conservation worldwide and influence policy in a meaningful way...

Julius Shulman, the architectural photographer known for his commercial images of modernist buildings in California, died of natural causes on July 15 in Los Angeles. He was 98.

Born on a farm in Connecticut, Shulman only dabbled in photography until he was 25, when he began taking pictures of buildings for architect Richard Neutra.

Through Neutra, Shulman met and worked for other industry architects, such as...

Jesse Alexander, a celebrated motor-sports photographer from Santa Barbara, Calif., was given the Star Driver award by Mercedes-Benz this summer for his artistic contributions to the automobile industry.

Alexander's most famous work includes his images from the 1954 French Grand Prix ...

French photographer Willy Ronis, known for his humanistic photographs of postwar France, died of natural causes at age 99 this September in Paris.

Influenced by black-and-white photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams, Ronis portrayed scenes of the common worker, factory strikes and everyday Parisian street life.

A native Parisian, Ronis was born in 1910 to a father who ran a photography studio and a mother who taught piano. Young Willy developed an interest...

A photograph of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett taken by Sammammish, Wash.-based Gary Voth was featured in Fortune magazine's June 2009 story on retirement. The image was shot when Gates and Buffett attended the Microsoft CEO Summit in 2005. 

Voth's recent work, shot in the Pacific Northwest, Tokyo and Alaska, spotlights the people...

Larry Sultan, a prominent photographer and teacher in the Bay Area art community, has been chosen as the next artist trustee on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's board of trustees. Sultan, only the second person to be appointed to this role, will be responsible for supporting the museum's director and helping to expand...

Noted Bay Area photographer and educator Don Worth died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif., on March 18. He was 84.

Long considered a master printer, Worth specialized in black-and-white images of tropical plants and large-format landscapes. For more than 30 years, he taught photography for many years at San Francisco State University...

Noted photojournalist and master printer Pirkle Jones died on March 15 of heart failure in San Rafael, Calif. He was 95.
Famous for his portraits of migrant farm workers in the 1930s and leaders of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, Jones was known for his striking social and political imagery. He worked closely with photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, who helped hone...