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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2002: Natalie Fobes Unpublished
After 10 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Natalie Fobes, to see how his career has progressed.
Natalie Fobes continues to shoot lifestyle and wildlife stock photography for Corbis, the National Geographic Image Collection, Science Faction and Getty. Her most recent trip was to photograph snowy owls in Canada. Fobes has photographed more than 100 weddings and portraits in the last few years, using a photojournalistic approach to...
2001: Gary Braasch Unpublished
After 11 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Gary Braasch, to see how his career has progressed.
Gary Braasch has continued his mission over the last 12 years to alert the public about the dangers of rapid climate change via his ongoing World View of Global Warming project. This work has resulted in two acclaimed books, exhibits in Chicago and Washington, D.C., United Nations postage stamps and a number of images that have...
2000: Robert Glenn Ketchum Unpublished
After 12 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Robert Glen Ketchum, to see how his career has progressed.
Over the last decade, nature photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has continued using his imagery to help protect the ecosystem of Southwest Alaska and the Bristol Bay fishery from the development of the Pebble Mine, a project he began in 1998. In 2006, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, assembled a...
1999: Reid Callanan Unpublished
After 13 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Reid Callahan, to see how his career has progressed.
When Reid Callanan's PPOY profile was published in 1999, his Santa Fe Photographic Workshops endeavor was not quite a decade old and "still charting its course as a U.S.-based educational center at a time when the...
1998: Marita Holdaway Unpublished
After 14 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Marita Holdaway, to see how his career has progressed.
Much has changed since we last profiled the founder of Seattle's Benham Gallery. After running one of the premier photographic venues in the city for 22 years, Marita Holdaway closed the venerable institution at the end of 2009. In the 11 years since she...
1997: Phil Borges Unpublished
After 15 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Phil Borges, to see how his career has progressed.
Phil Borges was named PPOY in these pages in 1997, and could easily have won the award every year since then for his tireless work in support of the world's indigenous cultures. "I have continued doing social documentary work for a...
Eleanor Callahan: 1935-2012 Unpublished
Eleanor Callahan, the wife and muse for photographer Harry Callahan, died after a bout with cancer at the age of 95. Known for her jet-black hair and curvaceous frame, Eleanor was photographed hundreds of times by her husband between the years of 1941 and his death in 1999. Harry's most notable shot of Eleanor shows her...
Stan Stearns: 1935-2012 Unpublished
Stan Stearns, the man best known for his iconic picture of John Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin in 1963, passed away from cancer at the age of 76. Born in 1935, Stearns first began working as a photographer at the Capitol newspaper when he was 16. He later worked as an Air Force photographer and for United Press International before setting up his own photography studio in Annapolis, taking wedding pictures, portraits and...
Mary Anne Redding Named Chair of Photography Unpublished
The Santa Fe University of Art and Design has named Mary Anne Redding as their new photography department chair. Redding, who is a leading photography educator, writer and curator, has previous taught at Arizona State University and New Mexico State University. She also formerly served as the curator of photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. Her most recent exhibitions include Contemplative Landscape at...
Michael Forster Rothbart Accepted by Blue Earth Unpublished
Michael Forster Rothbart, Samuel James and Christoph Gielen have recently been accepted by Blue Earth for this year's round of sponsorships. Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart submitted his "After Fukushima" project, a series that explores the human impacts of environmental change in Chernobyl. Samuel James entered his "Niger Delta" project, which records the ongoing struggle for power, land and oil in Nigeria's Niger Delta...