After 12 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Robert Glen Ketchum, to see how his career has progressed.

Over the last decade, nature photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has continued using his imagery to help protect the ecosystem of Southwest Alaska and the Bristol Bay fishery from the development of the Pebble Mine, a project he began in 1998. In 2006, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, assembled a...

After 13 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Reid Callahan, to see how his career has progressed.

When Reid Callanan's PPOY profile was published in 1999, his Santa Fe Photographic Workshops endeavor was not quite a decade old and "still charting its course as a U.S.-based educational center at a time when the...

After 14 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Marita Holdaway, to see how his career has progressed.

Much has changed since we last profiled the founder of Seattle's Benham Gallery. After running one of the premier photographic venues in the city for 22 years, Marita Holdaway closed the venerable institution at the end of 2009. In the 11 years since she...

After 15 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Phil Borges, to see how his career has progressed.

Phil Borges was named PPOY in these pages in 1997, and could easily have won the award every year since then for his tireless work in support of the world's indigenous cultures. "I have continued doing social documentary work for a...

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...

On the cover: Albert Watson's "Golden Boy, New York City, 1990," was shot using theatrical gold paint as makeup for a personal project following an advertising shoot.

© Albert Watson

Over a three-decade career, James Balog has used his stunning, alarming images to educate the world about global climate change and its potentially disastrous effects if left unchecked.

James Balog strolls out to the deck of his Colorado mountain home and eases himself into a chair just in time to glimpse another glorious Rocky Mountain sunset.

"I just enjoy sitting down and chilling out and looking at the world," he says with a sigh. "I like to watch...

Office: Boulder, Colo..

Websites: jamesbalog.com and extremeicesurvey.org.

Staff: Currently three people (can vary widely).

Family life: Wife, Suzanne, and daughters Simone, 23, and Emily, 9, both of whom, he says, already have "a pretty amazing knack for snapping photos".

For the ninth year in a row, Communications Concepts has honored PhotoMedia with its APEX Grand Award, this time in the Best Writing (For-Profit, Small Office) category.

The 2011 APEX Grand Award was for Roger Ressmeyer’s profile of PhotoMedia’s 2010 Photography Person of the Year, ”Louie Psihoyos: Weapon of Mass Construction,” in our Fall 2010 issue.

“In this outstanding magazine for photography pros, the visuals are superb...

Made famous by his work in National Geographic and Fortune, Psihoyos also is known for his elaborate photo shoots and for creating images that stnad the test of time.

The scene is brief but deeply unsettling. Footage from a stationary underwater movie camera in the coastal shallows shows typical marine life undulating gently with the waves. Then the view slowly darkens from above, as if a cloud is passing over. The colors begin to change, from greenish blue to a milky pink, then quickly to an alarming blood red that fills the entire field of view. Off-screen, wails and screeching can be heard.

Sadly, this scene is not from some fictional aquatic horror film...