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Randy Woods

Randy Woods, editor of PhotoMedia, has been in the magazine publishing world for more than 20 years, covering such varied topics as photography, insurance, business startups, environmental issues and newspaper publishing. He is also associate editor for iSixSigma magazine and writes a job—search blog for The Seattle Times called “Hire Ground.”

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Chris Hondros: 1970-2011 Unpublished

26 May 2011 Published in Passages

Getty Images photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket while covering the forefront of Libyan rebel combat this past April. He was 41 years old.

Throughout his career, Hondros was often entrenched in the center of international conflicts, working at sites in...

International Photographer Cariou Wins Copyright Case Unpublished

23 May 2011 Published in Industry News

French photographer Patrick Cariou has won his copyright lawsuit against New York artist Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery.

The ruling was issued by a federal court in New York earlier this minth, after the judge deemed that Prince had misused Cariou’s images by creating a series of paintings, as well as a collage...

Settlement Reached on Ansel Adams’ ‘Lost Negatives’ Unpublished

20 May 2011 Published in Industry News

After nearly a year of legal battles, Rick Norsigian, the man who discovered 65 allegedly lost Ansel Adams plates at a garage sale in Fresno, Calif., has settled his legal quarrel with the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

As part of their settlement, Norsigian has agreed to stop using the Ansel Adams name, likeness or trademark in connection with the sale of...

PhotoMedia Wins Seventh Maggie Award for Publishing Excellence Unpublished

18 May 2011 Published in Industry News

The Western Publications Association has honored PhotoMedia magazine with a 2011 Maggie Award in the category of Best Single Editorial Photograph in a Trade Magazine.

The winning photo, of an anglerfish, was taken by Mark Laita and accompanied a profile on him in the Fall 2010 issue of...

Brian Lanker: 1947-2011 Unpublished

12 May 2011 Published in Passages

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...

Hetherington, Hondros Killed in Libya Fighting Unpublished

11 May 2011 Published in Industry News

Fighting between the military backed by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and rebel forces in Libya recently took the lives of two photojournalists: Tim Hetherington, co-director of the Afghanistan-war documentary “Restrepo,” and Chris Hondros, a photographer for Getty Images.

Hetherington and Hondros were known for their work documenting human rights issues by photographing images of war and suffering, so their presence...

Kevin Steele: Clad as a Hatter Unpublished

13 April 2011 Published in Shot of the Week

When the subject of this photo was asked to pose for a picture by photographer Kevin Steele, it obviously went right to his head — and hat. Almost to the rafters.

This stately Mad Hatter image is part of a series of 100-plus portraits of performers who were about to take part in the 2010 Summer Solstice Parade in Santa Barbara, Calif. Steele had covered the parade many times for its usual antic cast of elaborate floats, colorful artists and character costumes. "I love shooting people in motion, and love to create interesting environments around them and capture the emotion," he says...

Dean Davis: 'Spring Man' Unpublished

20 May 2001 Published in Shot of the Week

As we head into the heady summer months, it helps to keep a little spring in your step. Dean Davis, a Spokane, Wash.-based commercial photographer, has taken such advice to extremes in this colorful image.

"Spring Man" was originally created as part of a series to illustrate a capabilities brochure for Spokane-based ICM Asset Management. Davis was hired to work with West Public Relations and a local design firm, Klundt-Hosmer Design, to provide a visual representation of a phrase used in the company's brochure: "The battle may go to the strong, and the race to the swift."

To complete the image the team envisioned, Davis set off on the literal route to find industrial-strength springs, eventually finding two specimens from Pohl Spring Works in Spokane. After consulting with a cobbler at a real bootmaking facility...

Charles Krebs: Macro Amazement Unpublished

16 February 2002 Published in Portfolios

Charles Krebs gets up close and personal with the small things in life.

What the heck is that?

This is a common reaction when nature photographer Charles Krebs shows off one of his recent macro-lens creations. "I like to spark amazement in people," he says. "There are all these common things in front of you every day that have such great detail, and most people never see them."

In some cases, he captures these tiny dramas in the field. For instance, the iridescent beetle, at lower left, was taken in Olympic National Park, Wash., as the bug crawled along a log. Others, such as...

Paul Conrath: Time Flies Unpublished

16 February 2002 Published in Shot of the Week

For some photographers, images come in an instantaneous flash. For others, like Seattle-based stock shooter Paul Conrath, the most enduring images come from a process carefully developed over time. "It’s really like a craft," he says. "The best photos are ones that are built."

This space-age timepiece follows Conrath’s metaphor in a very literal sense. Shot for a law firm representing computer chip maker Intel, the photo was the result of a collaboration between Conrath and Intel’s design firm.

"We had about three or four meetings before we even went into the studio," he says...