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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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Howard’s ‘Project Imagin8ion’ Finalists Chosen Unpublished

24 August 2011 Published in Special Honors

Canon U.S.A. and Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard have selected eight winners of their Project Imagin8ion photography contest. The winning photos will be used to inspire a short film by Howard.

Launched on May 22, the project invited photographers of all skill levels to submit their most imaginative photographs based on...

Pallante Named Director of U.S. Copyright Office Unpublished

22 August 2011 Published in People in the Industry

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Maria A. Pallante as director of the U.S. Copyright Office and named her the 12th register of copyrights.

Pallante has served as acting register for the copyright office since the retirement of...

Menzel’s ‘What I Eat’ Images Exhibited in Boston Unpublished

19 August 2011 Published in People in the Industry

This summer, freelance journalist Peter Menzel and award-winning editor Faith D’Aluisio launched the first exhibit based on their 2010 book, “What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets,” at the Museum of Science in Boston.

The exhibit, called “Around the World in 25 Diets,” focuses on...

Hall, Laporte to Host TWiT Photo Show Unpublished

17 August 2011 Published in People in the Industry

As the hosts of a new photography netcast, TWiT Photo, California-based photographer Catherine Hall and TWiT network chief Leo Laporte will hold a weekly conversation with leading international photographers.

The program will strive to educate, inspire and empower photographers of all levels by...

Grecco Wins Gold Twice at PX3 Unpublished

15 August 2011 Published in People in the Industry

Los Angeles-based portrait and editorial photographer Michael Grecco won two gold medals in the PX3 photo competition this past June for his celebrity prints titled “Steve Martin” and “Martin Scorsese on Rooftop.”

Grecco has also created a book and film related to his recent photography projects...

Getty Considers Selling WireImage Division Unpublished

11 August 2011 Published in Industry News

For $300 million dollars, Getty Images might be sloughing off one of its many photo divisions, according to a report from the New York Daily News. If the sale happens, it will represent a big change for Getty, which has spent the past decade procuring dozens of stock imaging companies.

A source for the Daily News story said the branch in question is...

Blue Earth Alliance Wins PhotoWings Grant Unpublished

08 August 2011 Published in Industry News

The Blue Earth Alliance, a community of photographers and other environmental supporters working to raise awareness about endangered cultures and social concerns through photography, has won a $10,000 grant from PhotoWings.

Blue Earth will use the grant to organize, fund, shoot and publish the work of...

Online Data Creation to Reach 90 Zettabytes Unpublished

05 August 2011 Published in Industry News

By the end of 2011, online users will have created 1.8 zettabytes (or 1.8 trillion gigabytes) of data, the equivalent of every U.S. citizen writing three tweets per minute for 26,976 years, according to an IDC Digital Universe study.

And these hard-to-grasp figures just keep rocketing upward, IDC said. Over the next decade, the number of servers managing the world’s data stores will...

PMA@CES Will Not Hook Up with Adult Video Awards Unpublished

03 August 2011 Published in Industry News

Sorry, gentlemen: It turns out the PMA@CES 2012 photo trade show will not run concurrently with the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) porn video convention in Las Vegas this coming January after all.

In a case of botched booking, the Sands Expo and Convention Center had accidentally reserved space for both conferences at once on...

InfoTrends: 22 Billion Photos Shared by 2015 Unpublished

01 August 2011 Published in Industry News

The number of worldwide camera phone users will reach 2 billion and the number of camera phone photos shared annually will double to 22 billion by 2015, according to a recent study by InfoTrends, a worldwide technology strategy firm.

In its 2011 report focusing on the future of mobile phone technology, InfoTrends said this expected migration will be the result of the growing popularity of smartphones, shipments of which are projected to increase from 306 million to 1 billion over the next four years....