The poster for the 10th Annual Polish Film Festival, held last November in Seattle, featured photography and design work by Gail Ann Wodzin, of Rat Race Productions in West Seattle. In addition to the official festival poster, Wodzin’s work appeared on a series of postcards promoting the event.

Benjamin Wilkins, a graduate of Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, is the featured artist in the latest virtual exhibition of Vroom Projects at TheLittleCity.com. “Project #3, The Poetry of the Pun: Photographs by Benjamin Wilkins,” includes 18 photographs and one mixed-media piece.

Amar Jorgenseon, a photography student at the Art Institute of Seattle, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by Glazer’s Camera Supply.

Roger H. Ressmeyer has joined Seattle-based Getty Images, Inc., a leading e-commerce provider of imagery and related products and services, as Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development. Ressmeyer has over 23 years experience in the stock photo and publishing industries.

Prior to joining Getty Images, Ressmeyer served as President and CEO of Visions of Tomorrow, Inc., and held various senior positions at Corbis Corporation.

Ressmeyer specializes in space technology, science and celebrity portraiture and has...

The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) has announced the winners of its prestigious awards for 2000. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Erwin and Peggy Bauer of Sequim, Washington, while Thomas Mangelsen of Jackson Hole, Wyoming has been named Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year.

The awards will be presented at the Annual Summit in Austin, Texas, January 12-16, 2000.

Gerry Ellis of Portland, Oregon’s ENP Images has taken over as guest host for Paramount Pictures’ Wild Things wildlife TV program. Ellis recently led the crew on three adreneline-filled treks into the African wilderness to track and photograph the continent’s wildlife. The first episode aired in early December on United Paramount Network (UPN).

Other current projects for Ellis include: assignments for the World Wildlife Fund documenting high-priority...

Stuart and Michele Westmorland have been busy with multiple magazine assignments for Journey and Caribbean Travel & Life. These have included traveling to Barbados, St. Vincent and Mustique, plus shooting several Washington race driving schools and Let's Play Ball, a feature story on minor-league baseball. The 1999 Earth Day Invitational Exhibition awarded 1st and 2nd place to Stuart for two...

New York City photographer Cindy Sherman has received the 1999 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The award ceremony will be held in Goteborg, Sweden on March 4, 2000, kicking off a new exhibition of Sherman’s work, organized and curated by the Hasselblad Center.

Photographer Stuart McCall of North Light Images, Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia will continue photographing the rehabilitation of the historic Lions Gate Bridge over the next nine months. The 60 year-old landmark structure is the first suspension bridge in the world to have its stiffening truss replaced while remaining open to traffic.

Donning safety harnesses, McCall will walk miles of steel cables suspended from towers that rise 20 stories above...

Tammy Cromer-Campbell of Longview, Washington has received her first-ever grant of $4,500 for her project “Environmental Effects/Fruits of the Orchard,” the Blue Earth Alliance recently announced. Her photographs of the tragic human results of a toxic waste injection well facility near Winona, Texas, will be displayed as two exhibits and possibly printed in a book by...