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.

In newsrooms across the country and at photo agencies, photojournalists have taken to digital cameras like teens to cell phones.

The digital revolution has changed the face of photography and photojournalism, allowing unprecedented speed in delivering photos and, many say, superior quality.

Last January, at Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego, Sports Illustrated went 100 percent digital, declaring that the time had arrived. SI often sets the standards for photographic image quality, so the switch was considered nothing short of historic for photojournalism...

In the Middle East, photojournalists don Kevlar vests and find back doors into places that do not even have front doors, all to show the world what words alone cannot. It's a risky job.

Journalists have been kidnapped, threatened, jailed and killed. Since the beginning of the year, 22 journalists worldwide — 12 in Iraq alone — have been killed in the line of duty or murdered because of their profession, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

In March, American freelance photographer Molly Bingham was imprisoned in Baghdad, accused of spying, held for a week, then released in Jordan...

J.P. Pappis, a 22-year industry veteran, has launched Polaris Images, a new agency based in New York City. Pappis is the former executive editor of Sygma Photo News and Corbis Sygma, and also served as editor-in-chief of Gamma Press USA.

Polaris will represent photographers to magazines, newspapers and television, cover major news events, produce feature stories, market special celebrity shoots and seek corporate assignments. The agency’s stable of photographers includes...

Brian Storm has left MSNBC.com to accept a position as vice president of news and editorial photography at Corbis, a digital media agency owned by Bill Gates.

In his new endeavor, Storm will be working with photographers and editing teams in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and London. He will be responsible for defining and implementing a global strategy for the production of editorial photography that offers clients worldwide the best possible selection of images. He will also lead the company’s efforts to...

2001, Fall Issue

Ricky Flores' photo of firefighters raising a flag at Groud Zero the day after the attacks on the World Trade Center captures the patriotism and heroism that followed the tragedy. In honor of the many intrepid photojournalists who risked their lives to show the world these atrocities, PhotoMedia presents a special gallery of their best work.

The National Geographic Society has named five photographers to its recently established program to showcase and support the work of preeminent freelance photojournalists who have contributed outstanding work to the society over the years. The first Contributing Photographers-in-Residence for the society are Sam Abell, David Doubilet, Karen Kasumauski, Emory Kristof, and Frans Lanting. Lanting, who has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time, currently makes his home in...

WTO riots were just another day on the job for area photojournalists.

In what Time magazine called "The Battle of Seattle," news photographers were caught in the cross fire between police and protesters at the recent World Trade Organization summit.

For many of those trying to capture the protests on film, the specter of rubber bullets and gas grenades whizzing toward them seemed more surreal than sinister. Despite the fact that one photographer was shot in...

Denver Rocky Mountain News photo staff shaken by Columbine tragedy

Janet Reeves was in the morning editorial meeting when the first news crackled in over the police scanner. The time was 11:25 a.m., the date, April 20, 1999. At that instant, just five minutes after the first call went into 911, Reeves knew there had been a shooting at Columbine High School. She had no idea that the events of the next few hours would seize the attention of the world, overshadow the war in Kosovo, and put her photo staff at the center of a controversy that is unfolding to...

Photographer Ed Kahsi, featured in our profile traveled with Kurdish rebels in Iraq to capture this image for one of a series of personal projects on the world's minorities and dispossessed peoples.