The International Photographic Council has announced the recipients of its eighth annual IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards.

Winners were selected by each of six professional photography organizations from among their members: Advertising Photographers of America, Barbara Bordnick; American Society of Media Photographers, George Long; Professional Photographers of America, Jo Alice and Tom McDonald; Professional School Photographers Association International, Anthony J. Cilento Jr.; White House News Photographers Association, Mannie Garcia; and Wedding Portrait Photographers International, Rick and Deborah Ferro.

Frans Lanting has received the 2005 Lennart Nilsson Award, which recognizes pioneers in medical and scientific photography. Lanting, who is based in Santa Cruz, Calif., was honored for his nature photography, examples of which have appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic, where he served as photographer-in-residence, and has received numerous awards for his work as a photographer and conservationist.

Earlier this year, Graham Nash and his business partner, printmaker Mac Holbert, were the recipients of the PhotoImaging Manufacturers & Distributors Association Visionary Award. Co-founded in 1989 by Holbert and Nash, Nash Editions is widely regarded as having started a photographic revolution with its invention of digital fine-art printing.

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History recently acquired the original Nash Editions Iris 3047 printer, on which the pair began experimenting with...

The Society of American Travel Writers has named Blaine Harrington, of Littleton, Colo., Travel Photographer of the Year for the second year in a row. Harrington's images can be seen at blaineharrington.photoshelter.com.

The International Photography Awards for 2005 have been announced. Jim Fisc, of Atlanta, was named the International Photographer of the Year and the winner of the $10,000 prize.

The award for Professional Photographer of the Year in Architecture was bestowed upon Timothy Griffith, based in San Francisco, who also received the first- and second-place awards in the Buildings category.

Nature photographer George Lepp, director of the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging in Los Osos, Calif., won four...

At the International Photographic Council's New Year's luncheon, held at the United Nations, Herbert Keppler received the council's Hall of Fame Award. Keppler, vice president of Popular Photography & Imaging and American Photo magazines, was honored for his efforts to support the advancement of photography.

Anita Duncan has been honored by the American Society of Picture Professionals as the group's third annual Picture Professional of the Year. Duncan, whose career has encompassed publishing and book design, including a stint as production manager at Marvel Comics, now works at Photo Researchers. Currently she is working on a picture book about the Murray Hill neighborhood in New York City.

The International Photographic Council, a nongovernmental organization of the United Nations, recognized the recipients of its 7th Annual Professional Photographer Leadership Awards at its International Professional Photographers Month luncheon at the U.N. in New York City on May 11.

The five award winners were...

Patricio Robles Gil has been named 2006 Outstanding Photographer of the Year by the North American Nature Photography Association. Gil is known for his passion for conservation and the use of photography in protection efforts in his home country of Mexico. The award will be presented at NANPA's 12th Annual Summit, to be held Feb. 9-12, 2006, in Denver.

Other honors being presented at the summit include...

Karen Huntt and Michele Westmorland, of the Mytinger Project, have received Scott Pearlman Field Awards for Science and Exploration from the Explorers Club. Pearlman awards are given to professionals in media and the arts to support documentation of exploration and field research.

Westmorland also has been invited to speak at the 8th World Wilderness Congress, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, this October. She will give her presentation, "On the Trail of Headhunters," during the Conservation Photography...