Home and studio: Albany, Calif.

Website: davidsanger.com

Family Life: Lives with his wife, Sally. "My whole family likes to travel," Sanger says. "My son and I just went to Peru last year."

Favorite locales in which to work: "South Africa, for the light; Europe, for the density of interesting subjects; and the Caribbean. I'm the guy you see in the Caribbean with the tripod, big lens, black camera bag and long pants, trudging down the beach, sweating."

Home and studio: Telluride, Colo., and upstate New York.

Clients: National Geographic Publications, Time, Life, The New York Times, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, the International Red Cross, Amnesty International, the United Nations.

Personal Projects: He has two book projects in the works, one that deals with capturing the meaning of the word "sacred" and the other on ancient Asia. Visit chrisrainier.com for details.

Advice for aspiring travel photographers: "You have to be driven by passion. You have to be driven by a love of telling the story. And if that's not there, something's missing.

Website:chrisrainier.com

The mission of the Enduring Voices Project is to document endangered languages around the globe and work to prevent the extinction of those languages. According to a sobering National Geographic statistic, almost 80 percent of the world's population speaks only 1 percent of its languages. The corollary is that only a handful of people are left who speak some of the several thousand other languages. When those people are gone, the language becomes extinct – forever...

Chris Rainier was born to travel. With a father who worked in the oil industry, Chris was in constant motion as a child, living, at various times, on four different continents. Growing up in so many different parts of the world has given him the ability to feel at home no matter where he finds himself.

"I feel very comfortable getting on a plane. I have a very high tolerance for travel," Rainier says. "I spend a significant amount of time each year on the road, because there's so much to see and there's so little time to understand this dynamic, changing world."...

I found myself amid the dunes of the southern Sahara, surrounded by men cradling AK-47s. They lit cigarettes, backs turned against the abrasive desert wind. It was getting dark. I asked myself, "How did I get here?"
It was my own fault. I was in Mali last year shooting an episode for the second season of my public television show, "Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge," with my crew of three. The men with the firepower were in my employ, thank goodness, hired to guard against bandits who prey on travelers.

The show is just one component of my strategy to recast my business in the face of the collapse of stock photography, a once-thriving enterprise that has been eroded...

Artfairs Inc. recently presented Photo L.A., its 18th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Photo L.A. is the largest exhibition of its kind in the United States, featuring 70 of the world's leading galleries and private dealers.

Nearly 7,000 collectors and artists attended the event, held at the Barker Hangar of the Santa Monica Airport, Jan. 8-11. An opening night reception benefited LACMA's photography department.

Programming highlights included the LACMA Artist Conversation Series and book signings with LACMA curator Charlotte Cotton and photographers David Maisel, Susan Meiselas, Bruce Davidson, Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman...

Noted photographer, curator, historian and scientist Terry Norman Toedtemeier died on Dec. 10, 2008, from heart-related complications in Portland, Ore.

Toedtemeier, the curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum, collapsed immediately after giving a lecture on the exhibit "Wild Beauty." He had been with the museum since...

Hossein Farmani, founder of the Lucie Awards, recently formed the Lucie Foundation, a new nonprofit aimed at celebrating master photographers, cultivating emerging talent, and promoting the appreciation of photography.

The Lucie Foundation started its 2009 programming with a focus on education. The foundation will hold year-round programming in addition to the annual Lucie Awards gala. Programs will include mentoring, scholarships, portfolio reviews, lectures, talks and a new festival in Los Angeles debuting this April...

Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles have developed a new scientifically based method for authenticating historic photographs. Previously, the accepted method had been based on visual and microscopic inspection of images.

GCI's Dusan Stulik and Art Kaplan, along with photographic conservator Tram Vo, were able to identify hidden chemical signatures associated with the more than 150 different chemical processes that have been used to develop prints since photography began. Using spectrometric analyses, they found that photographic paper contains a unique combination of elements, most notably,  barium and strontium, that can determine who made the paper and when...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has honored Weston Naef, the outgoing senior curator of photographs, with the title of Curator Emeritus, following his retirement from the museum in January 2009.

Naef came to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1984 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in conjunction with...