In newsrooms across the country and at photo agencies, photojournalists have taken to digital cameras like teens to cell phones.

The digital revolution has changed the face of photography and photojournalism, allowing unprecedented speed in delivering photos and, many say, superior quality.

Last January, at Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego, Sports Illustrated went 100 percent digital, declaring that the time had arrived. SI often sets the standards for photographic image quality, so the switch was considered nothing short of historic for photojournalism...

Roger Ressmeyer, a photographer who specializes in digital imagery, has joined the executive staff of RGB Labs as vice president of creative direction and programming. At RGB, Ressmeyer will oversee the development of new programming galleries within the GalleryPlayer service, which allows high-resolution digital art and photographic imagery to be viewed on plasma or flat-panel displays.

Previously, Ressmeyer was with Getty Images, where he held the positions of vice president, new revenues, artist relations and strategy and corporate development over the past four years. Prior to that, he worked for three years at Corbis, developing visual content acquisition and distribution strategies, as well as quality standards for digital imagery.

In the Middle East, photojournalists don Kevlar vests and find back doors into places that do not even have front doors, all to show the world what words alone cannot. It's a risky job.

Journalists have been kidnapped, threatened, jailed and killed. Since the beginning of the year, 22 journalists worldwide — 12 in Iraq alone — have been killed in the line of duty or murdered because of their profession, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

In March, American freelance photographer Molly Bingham was imprisoned in Baghdad, accused of spying, held for a week, then released in Jordan...

Alan Berliner and Jeff Sowards have established an alternative syndication service for photographers in Los Angeles. Vistalux specializes in providing photographers and agents with opportunities to syndicate their work to publishing clients.

Berliner, director of Vistalux, has more than 30 years of photography and photo agency experience. Managing Director Sowards has more than 14 years of industry experience, and has collaborated with a number of photographers on the production of their books.

Dan Steinberg has joined the list of photographers represented by BEImages, a research, licensing and photo syndication agency. Steinberg, who is based in Los Angeles, has photographed on assignment for the Associated Press, and his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, as well as in television and print advertising campaigns.

On the cover: Less than a month before the U.S. invasion, Polaris photographer Yannis Kontos caught this prescient image of a Baghdad maintenance worker removing the sword from a statue of the soon-to-be deposed Saddam Hussein. PhotoMedia talked with three other photojournalists about the chaos they saw in the days that followed and the uneasiness that pervades Iraq today.

Photo Copyright: © Yannis Kontos / Polaris

NPPA president Todd Stricker addresses the issue of photojournalistic ethics.

It’s all about the truth. It really is that simple. The photojournalist’s job is to take the pictures that best tell the story and portray the truth. Whether you work in television or with still images, the rules are the same now as they were back when the first news picture was taken.

Or are they?

The National Press Photographers Association has a code of ethics that every photographer must agree to upon joining the association. Part of that code is, “It is the individual responsibility of...

The cover of Wired magazine recently featured a photograph of Tim Montgomery, billed as the world's fastest man, taken by Michael Grecco. The California-based photographer is best known for his portraits, and his work has appeared in such periodicals as Time and Esquire.

"Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats," with photographs by Robb Douglas, has won the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, A BC Book Prize given to the best book published in British Columbia in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content.

Published by Harbour Publishing, "Skookum Tugs" takes the reader through a day on deck and explores three of the major types of tug work performed on the coast: moving logs, moving barges and wrangling ships. The images of Douglas, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. cameraman and professional photographer, are accompanied by...

After an issue full of conflict and change, we thought we would end with an image that is as timeless as it is beautiful. On a trip to Varanasi, India, Canadian photographer Christopher Gora discovered this quiet scene of a woman sweeping out a walkway.

"During the festival season, I lived in an ancient apartment overlooking the Ganges River." Gora said. "Daily, I would get up before dawn to witness people's rituals and then pass through this archway on my way to the market. I was often struck by the play of light through the arches, but there was never anyone there to complete the space...