"Headhunt Revisited," the portraiture project of Michele Westmorland and Karen Huntt Mason, was the subject of Smithsonian magazine's April issue. The article, "A Gibson Girl in New Guinea," can be read online at www.smithsonianmagazine.com. Westmorland, who is based in Mill Creek, Wash., teamed up with Mason for a two-month expedition to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, retracing anthropologist Caroline Mytinger's journey of the 1920s.

The fine-art photography of Doug Landreth was included at Art Expo 2006, held in New York City in March. Landreth's newest portfolio is "Off I-5," for which he traveled up and down Interstate 5 photographing the landscapes along the exits. His images have appeared in publications such as Graphis Photo Annual and Applied Arts.

Photographer David Julian has created a documentary series of images illustrating the turmoil that followed Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast. "Taken From the Heart: Images of Intimate Loss After Katrina" will be exhibited at the reopened New Orleans Museum of Art from June through August, and at Houston's Museum of Cultural Arts in September.

In addition, Julian's photo-illustrations recently garnered two Maggie awards for George Lucas' Edutopia magazine.

Jeff Burke has retired as senior vice president for product strategy at Jupitermedia, owner of the Jupiterimages stock agency. Lorraine Triolo, Jupitermedia creative director and Burke's wife, also is leaving the company.

In the 1980s, the duo founded the PictureArt stock agency, which was acquired by Jupitermedia last year.

Burke will remain chairman of the...

For the fourth year in a row, Portland photographer John McAnulty's images have been selected for Oregon State University's annual Art About Agriculture Tour.

This year's tour included two of McAnulty's images, "Palouse Spring Morning" and "Ready for Picking." In addition, "Palouse Spring Morning" was selected for the Dean and Director Award, College of Agricultural Sciences and Oregon Agriculture Experiment Station...

Commercial photographer Doug Walker, of Walker Photography in Olympia, Wash., received a National Merit award from the Professional Photographers of America judges at the Professional Photographers of Washington's Annual Educational Conference and Print Competition. The winning entry can be seen at walkerphoto.com/awards.html.

Lyndie Benson, a photographer who specializes in naturalistic portraiture of children, recently signed a representation and marketing agreement with FogStock, a stock photography agency based in Portland, Ore. Benson, who lives in the Seattle area, studied under Herb Ritts and counts among her credits a portrait of Bill and Hillary Clinton's dog Buddy.

Ramsay de Give, a second-year student at Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura, Calif., received a third-place award in the Picture of the Year International competition, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Journalism, for his photographs of the Southern California wildfires of late 2005.