Ed Morris, a recent graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, spent three months (July through September 2000) bicycling coast to coast while capturing in photos the American spirit as personified by its mayors. The result was the exhibit “Mayors Across America,” and a soon-to-be-released coffee table book.

The project was designed to explore the people behind the...

Greg Schurman of Schurman Photography has won the top Fuji Portrait Grand Prize 2001 of a complete Mamiya RZ 67 system with his images titled “Drip Dry,” “Eve,” “Church Silhouette” and “Old Carl.”

Schurman’s studios are located in Richmond, B.C., Canada, and his images can be seen at schurmanphotography.com.

Four Western photographers were recently recognized by Ilford Imaging, a developer and manufacturer of digital imaging products. The winners of the 2001 Ilford photography contest include Jay Aldrich, of Minden, Nev., who was awarded second place in the Digital category, and Jim Flory, of Mount Angel, Ore., who received the honorable mention in...

The poster for the 10th Annual Polish Film Festival, held last November in Seattle, featured photography and design work by Gail Ann Wodzin, of Rat Race Productions in West Seattle. In addition to the official festival poster, Wodzin’s work appeared on a series of postcards promoting the event.

Benjamin Wilkins, a graduate of Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, is the featured artist in the latest virtual exhibition of Vroom Projects at TheLittleCity.com. “Project #3, The Poetry of the Pun: Photographs by Benjamin Wilkins,” includes 18 photographs and one mixed-media piece.

Amar Jorgenseon, a photography student at the Art Institute of Seattle, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by Glazer’s Camera Supply.

The interaction with his subjects captivates Richard I'Anson, the lead photographer for guidebook publisher Lonely Planet, (featured in this issue's featured interview) who has written a new book on travel photography. On the cover, monks at the Sera Monastery in Tibet mug for his camera instead of paying attention to the debate they're attending. "It's the varied responses [of your subjects] that give character and personality to a collection of people pictures," says I'Anson.

Digital video today, like digital still photography, is marked by rapidly accelerating technology that leaves us breathless each time a new product is introduced. Each new camcorder seems to eclipse the capabilities of its predecessor. Two new developments that have expanded the horizon of video camcorders have been the advent of digital signal processing and the mini digital video tape cassette.

Camcorders are becoming more useful for still photographers by packing more sophisticated still, video and audio capabilities into smaller units that allow easy down-loading, editing and impressive multimedia opportunities. Sony's new DCR-PC110 Digital Handycam camcorder is the first to integrate both megapixel imaging and MPEG movie mode...

"Let's take these flowers and look at them," says Seattle photographer Randy Dana. "By putting them into this context, I think I force peopleto take a new and different look at them. I'm also trying to stimulate people's imaginations and show them something they haven't thought about before, and make them curious."

His entire portfolio consists of images of flowers and found objects, carefully composed. They are all photographed in natural light...

Experience with model testing and a love of theater combine in this "almost spontaneous" mid-1999 shot by Seattle photographer Michael Doucett. His subject is Zaza, one-third of the clown troupe Los Excentricos, traveling performers then appearing with Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle. Doucett was photographing the ZinZanni cast for Resonance, a local arts magazine.

"I do have a connection to these circus people," says Doucett, 33, a Tacoma native. "My family is all involved in the arts: professional artists, makeup artists, musicians...