Seattle photographer Adam Weintraub has stepped down as president of Blue Earth Alliance after concluding his third year to concentrate on personal projects.

Larry Ockene, a photographer and product manager at Microsoft, has been appointed the new president.

Chase Jarvis and Nadine Stellavato have been named...

Images captured by Seattle-based photographer Natalie Fobes from the Exxon Valdez oil spill were included as exhibits for plaintiff arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. Fobes had also been a witness for plaintiffs in the original 1994 trial against Exxon in Anchorage.

Fobes was one of the initial photographers to reach the spill in 1989. Her work was published in National Geographic magazine in August 1989 and January 1990, and has since been published in major publications worldwide.

Seattle-based photojournalist Tim Matsui and the FEAR (Friends Educating Against Rape) Project have been awarded a $22,300 Project Distribution Grant by the Open Society Institute of New York.

The grant will allow Matsui and FEAR to present to schools, community organizations and professional groups in the greater Seattle area. FEAR aims to combat sexual violence through the use of personal narrative and multimedia presentations.

The Brooks Institute has announced that visual journalism faculty member and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Rickman and his third-year student Mariah Tauger will attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in China as press photographers for NewSport Photo Agency.

For more than 25 years, Rickman has covered all aspects of Olympic-related sports and has developed an affiliation...

Award-winning photographer Robert "Bob" Holmes has joined Mountain Light Pictures (MLP) as a contributing photographer. MLP is home to the Galen Rowell Image Collection and represents a growing list of some of the finest working outdoor and nature photographers.

Holmes began his career by covering the British Everest Expedition in 1975. His subjects have ranged from snow leopards in Nepal to...

The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) Coalition, an international nonprofit standards organization, has made a significant expansion to its board of directors for 2008. PLUS directors are noted industry professionals, participating on behalf of leading nonprofit associations and designated to represent industries with which they have...

Eighteen images from "Passage Perceptions," a series by Portland-based photographer Brad Carlile, were on display in downtown Munich's Galerie Maurer from Feb. 1 to March 8. The 30- x 40-inch prints were created on film without digital manipulation. In these works, Carlile explores the realities of impermanence in light, color and the passage of time, resulting in vivid, natural colors.

Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) has named Annie Van Avery its new executive director. Van Avery comes to PCNW from New York City with an extensive photography background and has developed connections with a number of artistic communities nationwide.

She founded the Center for Photographic Studies in Vermont, where she served as its executive director. She has also worked as an education director for...