Gerry Ellis of Portland, Oregon’s ENP Images has taken over as guest host for Paramount Pictures’ Wild Things wildlife TV program. Ellis recently led the crew on three adreneline-filled treks into the African wilderness to track and photograph the continent’s wildlife. The first episode aired in early December on United Paramount Network (UPN).

Other current projects for Ellis include: assignments for the World Wildlife Fund documenting high-priority...

Stuart and Michele Westmorland have been busy with multiple magazine assignments for Journey and Caribbean Travel & Life. These have included traveling to Barbados, St. Vincent and Mustique, plus shooting several Washington race driving schools and Let's Play Ball, a feature story on minor-league baseball. The 1999 Earth Day Invitational Exhibition awarded 1st and 2nd place to Stuart for two...

New York City photographer Cindy Sherman has received the 1999 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The award ceremony will be held in Goteborg, Sweden on March 4, 2000, kicking off a new exhibition of Sherman’s work, organized and curated by the Hasselblad Center.

Photographer Stuart McCall of North Light Images, Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia will continue photographing the rehabilitation of the historic Lions Gate Bridge over the next nine months. The 60 year-old landmark structure is the first suspension bridge in the world to have its stiffening truss replaced while remaining open to traffic.

Donning safety harnesses, McCall will walk miles of steel cables suspended from towers that rise 20 stories above...

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...

Seattle photographer Ford Gilbreath won the 1999 Betty Bowen Memorial Award out of a field of 293 applicants from Oregon, Idaho and Washington.

The $10,000 award was established by friends of Betty Bowen (1918-1977), a Washington native and enthusiastic supporter of Northwest artists. Gilbreath has been showing his work throughout the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, including a current display in Seattle’s Esther Claypool Gallery.

Dick Busher, Seattle-based Cosgrove Editions’ publisher, won a Benny in the 1999 Printing Industries of America Premier Printing Awards for the bi-annual publication Northwest Photography. The Benny, short for Benjamin Franklin, is the Best in Category award. Another Cosgrove publication, Kagedo Japanese Art was runner up in the same category, which was Stochastic Printing.

The Photographic Center Northwest has embarked on a new phase of development by saying goodbye to Alin Shether as president. Shether began over ten years ago with a darkroom rental business and gradually expanded her vision of a unique photographic arts center.

Today’s PCNW at Twelfth and Marion in downtown Seattle boasts a gallery, rental darkrooms, classes, workshops and a school offering an...

Randy Wells of Bellevue, Washington has received another award for his self-promotional Christmas ornament, this time featured in GRAPHIS' Promotions Design 1 Annual. Randy’s photos also grace the pages of Outdoor Photographer and several year 2000 calendars, including Audubon and the Sierra Club.

In between recent stock shoots in Germany, Washington, Oregon and California, Randy has squeezed in assignments for Sunset Magazine, AAA's Journey Magazine, Fikse Wheels and Berringer Winery’s Annual Report.

Santa Barbara, California’s Brooks Institute of Photography won the Gold Medal for Best Multi-Image Documentary at last fall’s Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Competitions in San Diego. 20 Students and one faculty member produced the award winning 10-projector multimedia documentary, entitled Mekong – A Dragon’s Tale, which depicts life along Southeast Asia’s mighty Mekong River.