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PhotoMedia Wins Another Maggie Award!

15 May 2012
Published in Industry News

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...

PhotoMedia Wins Seventh Maggie Award for Publishing Excellence

18 May 2011
Published in Industry News

The Western Publications Association has honored PhotoMedia magazine with a 2011 Maggie Award in the category of Best Single Editorial Photograph in a Trade Magazine.

The winning photo, of an anglerfish, was taken by Mark Laita and accompanied a profile on him in the Fall 2010 issue of...

David Julian Hurricane Katrina Documentary Photo Series to Be Exhibited in New Orleans and Houston

15 June 2006
Published in People in the Industry

Photographer David Julian has created a documentary series of images illustrating the turmoil that followed Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast. "Taken From the Heart: Images of Intimate Loss After Katrina" will be exhibited at the reopened New Orleans Museum of Art from June through August, and at Houston's Museum of Cultural Arts in September.

In addition, Julian's photo-illustrations recently garnered two Maggie awards for George Lucas' Edutopia magazine.

Imagine That

06 October 2000
Published in Publisher's Message

As it does once every two years, our editorial focus this issue returns to studio photography. As we researched stories focusing on individuals and the industry, it became clear that these photographers, regardless of their specialty, have one thing in common: They make photos rather than just take them.

The photographers we present in these pages are masters of premeditation with an obsession for detail. From concepts to completion, they use time-tested skills as a foundation for cutting-edge lighting, exposure and post-production techniques. Without exception, they inventively capture their clients' desires on film, and often deliver much, much more.

Our thanks to all the featured photographers (and their staffs) who cheerfully cooperated in presenting their work...

Call of the Wild

28 April 2000
Published in Publisher's Message

This is an issue I’ve been looking forward to since last summer. While on a nature photography road trip from Seattle to Grand Teton National Park, I stumbled on a photo gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyo. It was a Sunday night, so the gallery was closed, but I was transfixed by the photos displayed inside. I was heading back on the road early the next morning, so would not have a chance to enter the gallery, but I grabbed a courtesy catalog from a dispenser outside the door.

Continuing on my trip, the memory of those photos stayed with me. As I looked over the catalog along the way, I knew we had to share those photos—and this photographer—with our readers. One of the highlights of this issue on nature and wildlife photography has been getting to view more...