Portland, Ore.-based photographer Brad Carlile was one of eight recipients of the Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial Award this year. The competition, which announced its winners in April, recognizes upcoming photographers in the media industry.

Carlile's winning series, "Tempus Incognitus," explores the nature of light and color...

Seattle photographer Phil Borges held "Picture This!," the first fund-raising event for his nonprofit group Bridges to Understanding, on May 27. The evening featured the presentation of the first Bridges to Understanding Humanitarian Award to Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein.

Borges is also working on multimedia documentaries for his Women Empowerment...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has honored Weston Naef, the outgoing senior curator of photographs, with the title of Curator Emeritus, following his retirement from the museum in January 2009.

Naef came to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1984 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in conjunction with...

Four Brooks Institute Visual Journalism program students — Daryl Peveto, Brett Ziegler, Afton Almaraz and Ellen Webber — took home a total of eight awards in the 2008 College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) competition.

Peveto, a graduate student who was also a 2006 and 2007 CPOY winner, won a Silver and a Gold award...

Seattle-based Blue Earth Alliance has accepted two new projects by western U.S. photographers — Annie Marie Musselman of Seattle and Jon Orlando of Boulder, Colo. — in its fall 2008 sponsorship round.

Blue Earth funds photo-documentary projects twice a year in an effort to foster social change...

In February, Suzi Eszterhas, of Tiburon, Calif., became the first-ever recipient of Ranger Rick magazine's Photographer of the Year Award. Eszterhas, who has a strong commitment to sharing her love of wildlife with children, was selected for her photographic contributions...

San Diego-based photographer Frank Rogozienski recently exhibited his show, "366 | 08," at Subtext Gallery. For the project, Rogozienski took one picture a day for a full year in 2008. The show, which began as an exercise, eventually grew into a broader examination of the everyday world.

Rogozienski is a co-founding member of the artists' cooperative La Luz Loca, originally begun...

Portland, Ore.-based photographer Joni Kabana recently went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on behalf of Mercy Corps to help photograph and film several work and relief programs. Kabana accompanied writer Roger Burks throughout the country, provided field staff with cameras and created portraits of those who benefit from Mercy Corps' efforts.

Kabana continues her Mercy Corps travel blog at xanga.com.