Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein, who co-founded Getty Images in 1995, were honored by the International Center for Photography with its inaugural Trustees Award. Getty and Rosen were recognized for their efforts to modernize the stock photography industry, their grants for editorial photography and their philanthropic activities.

Natalie Fobes, a photographer based in West Seattle, was named a finalist for the Alicia Patterson Fellowship, making her the first former recipient to be nominated again. Twenty years ago, Fobes received a fellowship for her salmon project.

Her current project examines how China's one-child policy affects people in China and the United States by following a family through the process of adoption.

Earlier this year, at its 12th Annual Summit, the North American Nature Photography Association recognized a number of photographers whose work has helped to promote the field of nature photography. Patricio Robles Gil, whose books illuminate the beauty and fragility of Mexico's ecosystems, was named the 2006 Outstanding Photographer of the Year. Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to environmental and fine-art photographer Pat O'Hara and Les Line, former editor-in-chief at Audubon for 25 years.

Three industry veterans were named NANPA Fellows, a designation bestowed on those who have contributed at least 20 years to...

Two Pulitzer Prizes for photography have been awarded this year. The staff of the Dallas Morning News won the award for Breaking News Photography, for its coverage of the chaos that resulted from Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the Gulf states.

In the Feature Photography category, Todd Heisler of Denver's Rocky Mountain News won the prize for his behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who had returned from Iraq. Heisler previously was recognized by the Pulitzer board in...

"Headhunt Revisited," the portraiture project of Michele Westmorland and Karen Huntt Mason, was the subject of Smithsonian magazine's April issue. The article, "A Gibson Girl in New Guinea," can be read online at www.smithsonianmagazine.com. Westmorland, who is based in Mill Creek, Wash., teamed up with Mason for a two-month expedition to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, retracing anthropologist Caroline Mytinger's journey of the 1920s.

The fine-art photography of Doug Landreth was included at Art Expo 2006, held in New York City in March. Landreth's newest portfolio is "Off I-5," for which he traveled up and down Interstate 5 photographing the landscapes along the exits. His images have appeared in publications such as Graphis Photo Annual and Applied Arts.

Photographer David Julian has created a documentary series of images illustrating the turmoil that followed Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast. "Taken From the Heart: Images of Intimate Loss After Katrina" will be exhibited at the reopened New Orleans Museum of Art from June through August, and at Houston's Museum of Cultural Arts in September.

In addition, Julian's photo-illustrations recently garnered two Maggie awards for George Lucas' Edutopia magazine.

Thomas J. Abercrombie, a photographer for National Geographic for nearly 40 years, died April 3 of complications from open-heart surgery at the age of 75.

Abercrombie was born in Stillwater, Minn., in 1930. In addition to taking photographs on seven continents, he was the first journalist to reach the South Pole in 1957, one year after joining the National Geographic staff.

Abercrombie was the first person to win both the Newspaper Photographer of the Year (1954) and the Magazine Photographer of the Year (1959) awards. After retiring from National Geographic...

The International Photographic Council has announced the recipients of its eighth annual IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards.

Winners were selected by each of six professional photography organizations from among their members: Advertising Photographers of America, Barbara Bordnick; American Society of Media Photographers, George Long; Professional Photographers of America, Jo Alice and Tom McDonald; Professional School Photographers Association International, Anthony J. Cilento Jr.; White House News Photographers Association, Mannie Garcia; and Wedding Portrait Photographers International, Rick and Deborah Ferro.

Jeff Burke has retired as senior vice president for product strategy at Jupitermedia, owner of the Jupiterimages stock agency. Lorraine Triolo, Jupitermedia creative director and Burke's wife, also is leaving the company.

In the 1980s, the duo founded the PictureArt stock agency, which was acquired by Jupitermedia last year.

Burke will remain chairman of the...