The Blue Earth Alliance, a community of photographers and other environmental supporters working to raise awareness about endangered cultures and social concerns through photography, has won a $10,000 grant from PhotoWings.

Blue Earth will use the grant to organize, fund, shoot and publish the work of...

Seattle photographer and Greenpeace freelancer Daniel Beltra recently received Pictures of the Year International's Global Vision Award, plus an Award of Excellence in the Nature Series category for his Greenpeace project, "Rainforest and the Antarctic," which documents the impact of global warming on the biodiverse polar region.

Beltra also took second place in the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism 2008 Awards in the Natural Habitat category for his photograph of...

Seattle photographer Adam Weintraub has stepped down as president of Blue Earth Alliance after concluding his third year to concentrate on personal projects.

Larry Ockene, a photographer and product manager at Microsoft, has been appointed the new president.

Chase Jarvis and Nadine Stellavato have been named...

Natalie Fobes has received the 2003 Fellow Award given by the North American Nature Photography Association. The Pulitzer Prize finalist and co-founder of Blue Earth Alliance is known for her work documenting how humans use and, in some cases, abuse the environment.

Blue Earth Alliance recently honored Fobes as the first recipient of its new Natalie Award, which was inspired by her...

An image by Janis Miglavs has been chosen for the cover of the first issue of Oregon Tourism’s new magazine, Travel Oregon.

Miglavs has also received sponsorship from the Blue Earth Alliance for his project, “Myth-ing Link: A Visual Look at the Inner World of Endangered African Tribes,” a study of 12 endangered indigenous tribes in Africa. The project will include a series of four books, gallery shows of the mythical photo illustrations, and exhibits with the Blue Earth Alliance and the Ethiopian Embassy.

Among the many photographers whose projects are being sponsored by the Blue Earth Alliance this year is Subhankar Banerjee, who is currently working in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Banarjee, a freelance photographer specializing in wildlife, environmental and cultural photography, will document the year-round biodiversity of the refuge and its two indigenous cultures, the Gwichi’in Athabascan Indians and the Inupiat Eskimos. The project is designed to create a conservation book in collaboration with natural history and cultural writers.

Anna Mia Davidson’s latest effort is called “Beyond The Cliche: The Positive Influences from the Cuban Revolution.” The vision for the project is to photographically narrate...

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...