Kevin Schafer, a Seattle-based nature photographer, was featured in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine for his photographs of Amazon River dolphins. One of Schafer's unpublished dolphin portraits also won the top prize in the mammal behavior category at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. His work has been published in Smithsonian, Natural History and National Wildlife...

The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has selected five portraits by renowned photographer Al Satterwhite to become part of its permanent collection.

The collection is made up of portraits of individuals who throughout history have made an impression on American culture. Satterwhite's selected portraits are of baseball legend...

Seattle-based Jeffry W. Myers, known for his ability to capture the mystic and magical elements found in nature, has published a new book, "Mystery and Meaning in Our Universe." The book is composed of nature photography fro...

After seven years, photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, of Venice, Calif., has decided to leave the VII photo agency to work at a multi-platform management and production company run by her husband, Frank Evers.

The new company, Institute for Artist Management, launched in beta form in September...

Seattle photographer Natalie Fobes, known for her work in National Geographic, Audubon and Smithsonian, is scheduled to give her third presentation at a Wedding & Portrait Photographers International conference, this one in Las Vegas in March 2010.

Fobes' lecture, titled "Putting Landscape into Portraiture," will elucidate how to best use light...

Tacoma, Wash.-based photographer Gene Eckhart's photo project, "Mountain Gorillas . . . and People: Understanding the Connections and Why They Matter," has been accepted for support by Seattle's Blue Earth Alliance foundation. The project is designed to promote mountain gorilla conservation worldwide and influence policy in a meaningful way...

Jesse Alexander, a celebrated motor-sports photographer from Santa Barbara, Calif., was given the Star Driver award by Mercedes-Benz this summer for his artistic contributions to the automobile industry.

Alexander's most famous work includes his images from the 1954 French Grand Prix ...

A photograph of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett taken by Sammammish, Wash.-based Gary Voth was featured in Fortune magazine's June 2009 story on retirement. The image was shot when Gates and Buffett attended the Microsoft CEO Summit in 2005. 

Voth's recent work, shot in the Pacific Northwest, Tokyo and Alaska, spotlights the people...