Geoffrey Hiller, a photographer based in Portland, Ore., has produced "Canto do Brasil," a multimedia presentation designed to build awareness of the country's current situation.

Through photography, narration, music and sounds from the streets of Brazil, viewers move through a visual depiction of four Brazilian cities: Salvador de Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Collaborating with Hiller on the project were...

Commercial photographer Doug Walker, of Walker Photography in Olympia, Wash., won three top awards at the Professional Photographers of Washington Annual Educational Conference and Print Competition.

Walker received the Best Architectural and the Best Industrial print awards, as well as the C.C. Yang Trophy for highest total combined score from four entries.

Oscar Williams, a photographer and teacher who lives in Kirkland, Wash., recently won the grand prize in Smithsonian magazine's first photography contest. Williams' winning photograph is of a boy running up a tiled staircase in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

The International Photography Awards recently announced the recipients of the first-ever Lucie Awards, acknowledging photographers' achievements from around the world in various categories.

Chris Frazer-Smith of the U.K. received honors as IPA's Photographer of the Year, which includes a $10,000 prize. Phil Borges won the Lucie Humanitarian Award and Robert Evans took home the Visionary Award. Henri Cartier-Bresson also was given an award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography.

Other Lucie Award recipients for outstanding achievement in their respective fields include...

Kevin Schafer, a photographer based in Seattle, won the Grand Prize in the 2003 Nature's Best International Photography Awards. His photograph, "Teepee and Aurora Borealis, Northwest Territories, New Year's Eve 2002/3," was included in the Nature's Best exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History last October.

Randy Wells will be teaching a digital travel photography workshop at the George Lepp Institute on the central California coast this September. He recently completed assignments for Sucre Clothing and Journey magazine.

WireImage co-founder and photographer Jeff Vespa led a team of photographers and staff in capturing highlights of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, held January 15-25 in Park City, Utah. Images from the festival are available at wireimage.com.

Eva Skold Westerlind, a fine-art photographer based in Kirkland, Wash., recently had a solo exhibition at the Ingrid Hansen Gallery in Washington, D.C. On the West Coast, she is represented by G. Gibson Gallery of Seattle.