Camille Licchtenstern, a participant in the Academy of Art University, San Francisco's Saturday Art Experience, has won first place in Artwire.com's Celebrity Deface Off competition. Licchtenstern, a San Francisco resident, reinterpreted Marilyn Monroe's subway grate scene from "The Seven Year Itch" in an image featuring rock celebrity Marilyn Manson.

Two West Coast photographers recently were honored by Nikon in the company's Small World competition, honoring excellence in photography through the microscope.

Charles B. Krebs, of Issaquah, Wash., was awarded first place for his photomicrograph of a common housefly. Second place went to Thomas Deerinck, of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at the University of California, San Diego, for his quantum-dot fluorescence image of...

Michael Grecco, a photographer based in Santa Monica, Calif., recently provided cover images of Steven Spielberg for Time and of Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, for Forbes. Grecco's work can be viewed on his web site, michaelgrecco.com.

Michele Westmorland and Karen Huntt have been voted two of the 40 founding members of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Westmorland and Huntt recently completed a two-month expedition to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, retracing artist Caroline Mytinger's journey of the late 1920s.

The league was launched at the 8th World Wilderness Congress in Anchorage, Alaska, in...

Through video, art installations, sound and photographs, Amanda Koster is seeking to illustrate how the people of Rabuor, Kenya, are enduring and surviving AIDS. Koster's multimedia exhibition, "AIDS Is Knocking," is intended to raise awareness and funds for the Rabuor Village Project, whose mission is to empower the people of Rabuor to develop sustainable, community-based solutions to the challenges of poverty and HIV/AIDS. For more ore information, see rabuorvillageproject.org.

In commemoration of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Washington State Capital Museum in Olympia is presenting "Faces from the Land: A Photographic Journey through Native America," by Ben and Linda Marra. The Seattle-based photographers focused on many of the Native American cultures that Lewis and Clark encountered, including Sioux, Lemhi Shoshone and Nez Perce. The exhibit includes a contemporary photograph of Sacajawea's great-great-great-niece, Rose Ann Abrahamson.

Nature and wildlife photographer David M. Cobb has opened a new studio in Portland, Ore., at 4212 S.W. Condor Ave. Cobb's images can be seen on his web site, dmcobbphoto.com.

Michael Ramey, an instructor at the Art Institute of Seattle, recently completed an 18-day tour of orphanages in India, Vietnam, China and Russia, where he photographed children for the World Association for Children and Parents. The adoption agency will use the images to develop a donor DVD and a presentation for its 30th anniversary celebration, to be held in New York City in June.