The Tiffen Dfx version 3.0.5 plug-in is now compatible with Avid Media Composer v6, Symphony v6 and NewsCutter v10.

With this latest edition, there is added support for Sony DSLR, NEX, SLT and STV devices.

The Tiffen Dfx v3.0.5 update is free to existing Dfx v3.0 users and can be downloaded from the Tiffen website. Additionally, the video plug-in is available to new users for $599 and the photo plug-in is available for $199.

Award-winning nature photographer Florian Schulz has published a new panoramic photo essay title, "To the Arctic". Schulz's large-format book contains more than 150 color images that take readers on a personal journey to the remote-yet-vibrant Arctic. The book also includes several first-person accounts that describe Schulz's larger-than-life adventures in the far north...

1996: Painting the Human Canvas: After 15 years, we catch up with our past award-winner, Art Wolfe, to see how his career has progressed.

The soul of the artist is not confined by success; it is fed by creating new pieces. Nature photographer Art Wolfe's unbroken string of exciting projects over the last 30 years displays an upward trajectory that shows no sign of slowing. In the years since being named PhotoMedia's first-ever Photography Person of the Year in 1996, Wolfe has continued to enjoy great career success. With a string of popular books, a television show seen all over the world, travel workshops in the...

Home/studio: New York City

Published books: "Strip Search: Las Vegas" (2010); "UFO: Unified Fashion Objectives" (2010); "Albert Watson" (2007); "Maroc" (1998); "Cyclops" (1994)

Recent awards/honors: Platinum Award for 2011, Graphis; The Centenary Medal, The Royal Photographic Society, 2010; named one of the 20 Most Influential Photographers of All Time, Photo District News, 2010; inducted into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame, 2006; Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Advertising Photography, 2006; Grammy Award for Mason Profitt album, "Come and Gone," 1975 ; three Andy Awards, the Advertising Club of New York...

No Slowing Down: The peripatetic master of celebrity, portrait, still life, fashion and landscape photography is still in constant motion after 40 years, always in search of the next arresting image

Most photographers quickly settle into a specialty, one genre or subject of photography that they are especially good at and for which they become well known. We don't expect people to be good at a lot of things. We expect professionals to....

The Santa Fe University of Art and Design has named Mary Anne Redding as their new photography department chair. Redding, who is a leading photography educator, writer and curator, has previous taught at Arizona State University and New Mexico State University. She also formerly served as the curator of photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. Her most recent exhibitions include Contemplative Landscape at...

All editorial contributors for Getty Images should take notice of a new contract in place this year—one, all-encompassing deal that gives 35 percent royalties for all image sales. Currently, there are multiple contracts in place that pay some contributors up to a 50 percent royalty. Getty made the announcement in November and gave contributors 30 days to sign...

It's hard to believe more than 11 years have passed since I first met Gary Halpern and began editing and writing for PhotoMedia . Though I've never been a professional photographer, I've always been drawn to the exquisitely composed image. I was raised on the impeccable photography of magazines such as National Geographic and old issues of Life, which both inspired me to take some darkroom courses and experiment with....

PhotoMedia has won one of three prestigious 2012 Maggie Award nominations. The win was for Best Single Editorial Photograph/Trade for the opening photo spread in our Summer 2011 issue story on Charles "Flip" Nicklin. The other two nominations were for Best Interview or Profile/Trade and Best Editorial Layout/Trade, both for...

While preparing for this, our 25th Anniversary issue, we were faced with a daunting challenge. After our previous issue featured Steve McCurry as our cover story, how could we make this one as special, or more so, than that? After all, surviving the last 25 years in the magazine publishing business is a miracle in itself. (And Lord knows there were plenty of opportunities along the way to perish.) We knew our cover profile had to be exceptional, so after much consideration, we made an appeal to New York's...