Randy Woods
Randy Woods, editor of PhotoMedia, has been in the magazine publishing world for more than 20 years, covering such varied topics as photography, insurance, business startups, environmental issues and newspaper publishing. He is also associate editor for iSixSigma magazine and writes a job—search blog for The Seattle Times called “Hire Ground.”
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2002: Natalie Fobes Unpublished
After 10 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Natalie Fobes, to see how his career has progressed.
Natalie Fobes continues to shoot lifestyle and wildlife stock photography for Corbis, the National Geographic Image Collection, Science Faction and Getty. Her most recent trip was to photograph snowy owls in Canada. Fobes has photographed more than 100 weddings and portraits in the last few years, using a photojournalistic approach to...
2001: Gary Braasch Unpublished
After 11 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Gary Braasch, to see how his career has progressed.
Gary Braasch has continued his mission over the last 12 years to alert the public about the dangers of rapid climate change via his ongoing World View of Global Warming project. This work has resulted in two acclaimed books, exhibits in Chicago and Washington, D.C., United Nations postage stamps and a number of images that have...
2000: Robert Glenn Ketchum Unpublished
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...
1999: Reid Callanan Unpublished
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...
1998: Marita Holdaway Unpublished
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...
1997: Phil Borges Unpublished
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...
Tim Mataoni Releases New Book Unpublished
In an effort to document the people behind many of world's iconic photographs from the past century, San Diego-based photographer Tim Mataoni has released "Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends." The 150-page book includes a series of 20x24-inch Polaroid portraits of photographic legends like Steve McCurry, Joyce Tenneson and Arthur Levine. According to Mantoani... —
Robert Frank Photos Found in NY Times Archive Unpublished
It seems that "lost" photographs have been making quite a reappearance these days. In February, a series of Robert Frank images, take in 1958 as part of commission from The New York Times, were discovered by the family of Louis Silverstein, a longtime art director at the Times. Following the debut of the Times' big announcement about their photo archive blog, "The Lively Morgue," the photographs are also featured on the publications photo news blog, "Lens."...
Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty to Falsifying Evidence Unpublished
After two years of denying wrongdoing, Shepard Fairey, the artist who made the iconic "Hope" Obama campaign posters, has plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for destroying documents and falsifying evidence in his lawsuit with the Associated press.According to the court records, Fairey provided false documents during the litigation and asked one of his employees to mislead investigators.
Originally following the lawsuit, Fairey claimed that fair use laws protected his posters and that he had not infringed upon a 2008 image taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia.
Charles Krebs Wins 2011 Olympus BioScapes Unpublished
Seattle photographer Charles Krebs won first place in the 2011 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects. His winning image enlarges the amazing movements of a rotifer, a tiny underwater creature that sweep at lightning speed to move food into its mouth. Krebs used a special flash to freeze the cilia's...