Seven students from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif., were honored in the College Photographer of the Year competition, held at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Mo., late last year.

The Brooks recipients were Ramsay DeGive (Gold Medal, Spot News); Matthew Williams (Award of Excellence, General News, and...

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.

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.

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.

Natalie Fobes, a photographer based in West Seattle, was named a finalist for the Alicia Patterson Fellowship, making her the first former recipient to be nominated again. Twenty years ago, Fobes received a fellowship for her salmon project.

Her current project examines how China's one-child policy affects people in China and the United States by following a family through the process of adoption.