Photographer John Stanmeyer has been awarded the World Press Photo of the Year for 2013 for an image of immigrants standing on a beach in Djibouti near the Somali border, trying to get wireless connections for their cell phones in an attempt to contact families abroad. Stanmeyer shot the image for...

Robert "Bob" Gilka, who served as director of photography for National Geographic magazine for more than two decades, died of complications from pneumonia at the Sunrise Senior Living assisted living center on June 25. He was 96.

While running the magazine's photography department from 1963 to 1985, Gilka recruited and mentored some of the most prominent nature and wildlife shooters in the business, including...

From his iconic street portraits to his final roll of Kodachrome, globetrotting photojournalist McCurry is a master at finding personal connections with his subjects

Street portraits are one of McCurry's specialties. Most photojournalists tend to be somewhat removed from their subjects, but McCurry has perfected the intimate, close-up portrait in documentary photography.

His most famous portrait is the iconic "Afghan Girl," the now-ubiquitous image taken in 1984 during the Soviet occupation, showing an Afghan child with penetrating, pale eyes. In this portrait, we see the girl face to face....

Brian Lanker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his black-and-white photo essay on childbirth in 1973, passed away on March 13 at the age of 63.

Lanker’s photojournalism career began with small-town newspapers, including The Phoenix Gazette, which he joined at the age of 18, and The Topeka Capital-Journal...

For almost half a century, this National Geographic ‘street shooter' has brought the world's cultures to life through his travel portraits and evocative essays.

William Albert Allard came to a conclusion about life and photography many years ago. The only way to keep producing exceptional work is to carefully select the work you do. And that work has to matter to you because that's the only way to make images that are truly honest, images that you can stand behind and believe in...

Home/Studio: Missoula, Mont., and Charlottesville, Va.

Published books: "Vanishing Breed," "The Photographic Essay," "A Time We Knew," "Time at the Lake," "Portraits of America" and "Five Decades"

Awards: Western Heritage Award, 1982; Leica Medal of Excellence, 1982; University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award, 1994; Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, 2002; University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications Award of Excellence, 2004...

Kevin Schafer's photographs of the threatened silky sifaka lemur of Madagascar were featured in a cover story in the April 2010 Smithsonian magazine. Also from this photo series, two images have been selected for the prestigious "Wildlife As Canon Sees It" feature in National Geographic magazine.

Ad revenue for magazines has plummeted in the past year across the nation, affecting both small publications and large media corporations. Coupled with decreased print readership, this shift in magazine trends equates to layoffs, fewer pages, mergers and closures.

According to Mediaweek Monitor, the hardest hit publications are photo-centric magazines such as American Photo, with a 59 percent difference in ad pages from the same time last January; Skiing...

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.

Michael and Patricia Fogden, of North Uist, Scotland, will receive 2008 Lifetime Achievement Awards from NANPA, recognizing their work with natural history subjects. Bates Littlehales, of Circleville, Wis., a retired photographer who specialized in natural history photography and underwater work for the National Geographic Society, will be honored with the second 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Also,  NANPA Fellow Awards will be presented to Kathy Moran, of Washington, D.C.; Danita Delimont, of Bellevue, Wash.; and Tom Vezo, of Green Valley, Ariz. Also to be recognized are...