San Francisco Chronicle photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice has been awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her photo essay portraying doctors' efforts to heal a maimed 9-year-old Iraqi boy.

Fitzmaurice earned a BFA in photography from the San Francisco Academy of Art's University Academy, where she became a guest lecturer after her graduation. Her prize-winning photographs can be viewed at pulitzer.org.

Kevin McGowan, of Strode McGowan Photography in Tacoma, Wash., had four images chosen for exhibition at the 2005 Annual Pacific Northwest Print Competition Salon in Pasco, Wash., directed by the Professional Photographers of Washington. McGowan also was a speaker at the concurrent educational conference.

Fred H. Lerner, president and CEO of Ritz Interactive, based in Irvine, Calif., has been elected president of Photo Marketing Association International. Prior to holding the position of president-elect from 2004 to 2005, Lerner served as the association's vice president and treasurer.

Landscape photographer Eirik Johnson, of San Francisco, has won this year's Santa Fe Prize for Photography, given by the Santa Fe Center for Photography. Johnson's project, "Borderlands," is a series of large-format prints depicting overlooked landscapes along the edges of the contemporary environment. A monograph of the work is to be published in July by Twin Palm Publishers and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Born and raised in Seattle, Johnson is a graduate of the University of Washington and received...

Lucas Jackson, a visual journalism major at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif., recently received the prize for the top portfolio at the Students in Photojournalism seminar sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, Hoy, Perfect Exposure Gallery and USC's Annenberg School for Communication. The images in Jackson's portfolio included sports, general news, environmental portraits, a spot news story on recent flooding in Ventura, and a photo essay on commercial fishing in Alaska.