Landscape photographer Eirik Johnson, of San Francisco, has won this year's Santa Fe Prize for Photography, given by the Santa Fe Center for Photography. Johnson's project, "Borderlands," is a series of large-format prints depicting overlooked landscapes along the edges of the contemporary environment. A monograph of the work is to be published in July by Twin Palm Publishers and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Born and raised in Seattle, Johnson is a graduate of the University of Washington and received...

Lucas Jackson, a visual journalism major at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif., recently received the prize for the top portfolio at the Students in Photojournalism seminar sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, Hoy, Perfect Exposure Gallery and USC's Annenberg School for Communication. The images in Jackson's portfolio included sports, general news, environmental portraits, a spot news story on recent flooding in Ventura, and a photo essay on commercial fishing in Alaska.

Among the 142 winners of the annual Nature’s Best International Photography Awards were many members of the North American Nature Photography Association. NANPA photographers from the western United States who were recognized include: 

Robert Barber, Colorado, Highly Honored, Creative Digital;

Alice Cahill, California, Winner, Plant Life; ...

Byron Wolfe (byronwolfe.com), a photography instructor at California State University, Chico, has been named the winner of the 2004 Santa Fe Prize for Photography by the Santa Fe Center for Photography. 
Wolfe’s photographic diary, “Everyday: A Poetic Diary with Pictures,” can be seen on his web site, www.byronwolfe.com. The award includes $5,000 and participation in Review Santa Fe.

Howie Garber (wanderlustimages.com) received an award in the 2004 BBC Wildlife Magazine/Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. The Salt Lake City-based photographer was named a winner in the Animals in Their Environment category.

Canadian photographer Alan Ticheler (amtphoto.com/figures) has been honored by Hidden Beach, a Mexican nudist resort, with its prize for Best Artistic Nude Photo. Ticheler’s past projects include work for “Miami Vice,” the musical group Foreigner, and Sony and Universal MCA music.

Phillip E. Abel has been appointed director of Wedding and Portrait Photographers International. Abel’s background in the photographic industry includes sales with Fujifilm and Oriental Photo, photofinishing with the Photo Factory in San Diego and 12 years as a professional photographer with the U.S. Navy. Most recently, he was field marketing manager for Fujifilm.

The Caroline Mytinger Project has selected Jeff Streich, of First Light Films (firstlightfilms.com) in Portland, Ore., to produce and direct the documentary portion of the project.

Streich’s previous television work includes projects for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, MTV and the first season of CBS’s “Survivor.” He also was the recipient of an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming for...

Randy Harris, a photographer based in Bellevue, Wash., has been named the grand prize winner of the Nature’s Best Magazine National Photo Contest. The winning photograph was a close-up of an Alaskan grizzly bear fishing for silver salmon.

Harris’ work has appeared in magazines, on television and in advertising campaigns. The award-winning photo can be seen at randyharrisphoto.com.

After 20 years as executive director of SF Camerawork, Marnie Gillett died Dec. 3, 2004, following a lengthy battle with breast cancer. During her tenure, Gillett established Camerawork as a launching pad for emerging artists. She also was pivotal in helping raise San Francisco’s profile as an art community leading the exploration of the photographic medium.

Before assuming the leadership of Camerawork, Gillett was curator of exhibitions at the University of Arizona’s...