Printing digital photos may seem cheap, but are you taking all the costs into account? Seattle photographer Serge Timacheff lists some line-items you may have missed.
It is tempting to assume that printing photos from a digital camera will be a snap, and cheaper than a film-based process. Anyone who has tried it, however, knows that it inevitably becomes a bigger challenge, and expense, than anticipated...

WireImage co-founder and photographer Jeff Vespa led a team of photographers and staff in capturing highlights of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, held January 15-25 in Park City, Utah. Images from the festival are available at wireimage.com.

Eva Skold Westerlind, a fine-art photographer based in Kirkland, Wash., recently had a solo exhibition at the Ingrid Hansen Gallery in Washington, D.C. On the West Coast, she is represented by G. Gibson Gallery of Seattle.

Two Art Institute of Seattle faculty members were recognized for their work late last year. Barry Scharf received the Guru finalist award in the Artistic category at the 2003 National Association of Photoshop Professionals international conference in Miami Beach, Fla. The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs recently selected Tom Harris, a photography instructor at the institute, as a Sustaining Award winner in the Seattle Collects 2003 competition.

Rosanne Olson, who has been working in Seattle as a photographer since 1986, was featured in the January issue of Communication Arts. Her work also appeared on the cover of that issue.Wendi Rowlands, Todd Schneider, Mary Seaton and Owen Mesdag recently completed projects documenting fundraising events for the American Lung Association of Washington. Rowlands created a 27-minute video on the Climb for Clean Air...

Pete Moroz, a portrait photographer based in Spokane, Wash., received the Kodak Gallery award for his entry in the Wedding category. The Professional Photographers of Washington also awarded Moroz first place in the Best Portrait of a Woman category.

On the cover: Twin brothers Kevin and Andrew Atherton, part of the Cirque du Soleil acrobatic troupe, seemingly defy gravity in this Greg Gorman portrait. In actuality, they were shot on the roof of his studio, using all natural light with a black background. 

Cover photo: © Greg Gorman

Photographer Janis Miglavs has been selected by the Tigard-Tualatin (Ore.) School District as an annually studied artist in its Art Literacy Program. During Black History Month each year, all grade-schoolers will learn about his photographic and digital artwork, which captures the cultures, myths and dreams of rarely studied African tribes.

It’s been months since our last issue, and much has transpired: American soldiers keep dying in Iraq; Saddam Hussein was captured; John Kerry overtook Howard Dean in the Democratic race for the presidency; unemployment remained high; gas prices spiraled through the roof; the president insisted America is in good shape; Mars was explored; Hobbits made a clean-sweep at the Oscars; and Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. The world has been spinning — and spinning fast.

During this time, I visited the North American Nature Photographers Summit in Oregon and the Photo Marketing Convention in Las Vegas to monitor the pulse of the photo industry. And while everyone was sharing war-stories about how hard it was to survive financially in 2003, there was an incredible buzz...

Seattle photographer Doug Landreth was one of six winners in the Photo District News PIX Digital Imaging Contest's Personal category for his series of three floral portraits. A few months previously, Landreth's work placed sixth in the Adobe Digital Imaging Competition, exploring the theme Presentation of Entertainment.