Bruce Forster (bruceforsterphotography.com) of Portland, Ore., has been on assignment for Dorling Kindersley book publishers, capturing images for their “Eyewitness Travel Guide” about the Pacific Northwest. Logging more than 2,000 miles and shooting more than 100 rolls of film, Forster has traveled throughout Oregon and the Portland metropolitan area photographing landmarks. The book is expected to be published this autumn.

John Valls (johnvalls.com), best known for his architectural, portrait and product photography, has launched a new photo studio in Portland, Ore. Recent clients include the Ulven Design Group and Hewlett-Packard.

Portland, Ore., photographer Steve Scardina (scardinaphoto.com) recently presented a series of black-and-white photographs taken in rural villages in central Europe over a six-year period. The exhibition, “Architectural Treasures of Central Europe,” was held at Portland’s Collective, Inc., late last year. A portfolio of the images also appeared in the October/November issue of LensWork.

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall of Vancouver, B.C., was selected as the winner of the 2002 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. In conjunction with the award, presented late last year in Göteborg, Sweden, Wall’s photographs were displayed for two months at the Hasselblad Center in the Göteborg Art Gallery.

The panel of judges cited Wall’s use of carefully composed images to explore a range of social and political themes such as...

Works by Judy Horn, of Horn Graphics (hornfineartimaging.com) in Tacoma, Wash., received the Best of Category award (for the Spirit of America category) and the Director’s Purchase Award at the Western Washington State Fair’s fine-art competition. Horn’s work can be seen at Art Concepts on Broadway in Tacoma, Sunrise Gallery in Puyallup, Wash., and Charlie White Gallery in Portland, Ore.

Earlier this year, Aperture Foundation bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography and Conservation upon Robert Glenn Ketchum (robertglennketchum.com). The award was presented during Aperture’s 50th anniversary gala at Sotheby’s New York. At the same ceremony, Henri Cartier-Bresson received the Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award.

Aperture is also publishing...

Judith Cooper Haden (judithhadenphotography.com) of Seattle recently completed a 13-city book-signing and lecture tour to promote her new book, “Oaxaca: The Spirit of Mexico,” released in June 2002 by Artisan. The cities she visited were Tucson, Ariz.; Phoenix; Santa Fe, N.M.; Albuquerque, N.M.; San Francisco; Los Angeles; San Diego; Nevada City, Nev.; Bellingham, Wash.; Bainbridge Island, Wash.; Kirkland, Wash.; Seattle; and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Oliver Gagliani, a resident of South San Francisco, died Nov. 20, 2002, at the age of 85. At the time of his death, Gagliani was gathering his images of Italy for publication in book form.

He was a respected instructor and former NEA grant recipient whose work had appeared in one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Santa Barbara Museum and the Oakland Museum in California, and in galleries around the world.

A native of California, Gagliani attended...