Michael Grecco, a photographer based in Santa Monica, Calif., recently provided cover images of Steven Spielberg for Time and of Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, for Forbes. Grecco's work can be viewed on his web site, michaelgrecco.com.

Michele Westmorland and Karen Huntt have been voted two of the 40 founding members of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Westmorland and Huntt recently completed a two-month expedition to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, retracing artist Caroline Mytinger's journey of the late 1920s.

The league was launched at the 8th World Wilderness Congress in Anchorage, Alaska, in...

Through video, art installations, sound and photographs, Amanda Koster is seeking to illustrate how the people of Rabuor, Kenya, are enduring and surviving AIDS. Koster's multimedia exhibition, "AIDS Is Knocking," is intended to raise awareness and funds for the Rabuor Village Project, whose mission is to empower the people of Rabuor to develop sustainable, community-based solutions to the challenges of poverty and HIV/AIDS. For more ore information, see rabuorvillageproject.org.

The International Photography Awards for 2005 have been announced. Jim Fisc, of Atlanta, was named the International Photographer of the Year and the winner of the $10,000 prize.

The award for Professional Photographer of the Year in Architecture was bestowed upon Timothy Griffith, based in San Francisco, who also received the first- and second-place awards in the Buildings category.

Nature photographer George Lepp, director of the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging in Los Osos, Calif., won four...

In commemoration of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Washington State Capital Museum in Olympia is presenting "Faces from the Land: A Photographic Journey through Native America," by Ben and Linda Marra. The Seattle-based photographers focused on many of the Native American cultures that Lewis and Clark encountered, including Sioux, Lemhi Shoshone and Nez Perce. The exhibit includes a contemporary photograph of Sacajawea's great-great-great-niece, Rose Ann Abrahamson.

Nature and wildlife photographer David M. Cobb has opened a new studio in Portland, Ore., at 4212 S.W. Condor Ave. Cobb's images can be seen on his web site, dmcobbphoto.com.

Noted photographer Michael A. W. Evans, an early developer of software systems for cataloging photography collections, died of cancer on Dec. 1, 2005, at his home in Atlanta. He was 61.

The son of Canadian diplomats, Evans was born in St. Louis and spent much of his childhood abroad. His 20-year photojournalism and picture-editing career began at the Port Hope Evening Guide newspaper in Ontario, Canada, in 1959, when he was 15.

He also worked for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and...

At the International Photographic Council's New Year's luncheon, held at the United Nations, Herbert Keppler received the council's Hall of Fame Award. Keppler, vice president of Popular Photography & Imaging and American Photo magazines, was honored for his efforts to support the advancement of photography.

Anita Duncan has been honored by the American Society of Picture Professionals as the group's third annual Picture Professional of the Year. Duncan, whose career has encompassed publishing and book design, including a stint as production manager at Marvel Comics, now works at Photo Researchers. Currently she is working on a picture book about the Murray Hill neighborhood in New York City.

Michael Ramey, an instructor at the Art Institute of Seattle, recently completed an 18-day tour of orphanages in India, Vietnam, China and Russia, where he photographed children for the World Association for Children and Parents. The adoption agency will use the images to develop a donor DVD and a presentation for its 30th anniversary celebration, to be held in New York City in June.