From Business Wire:
“SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GoGo Images, www.gogoimages.com, a stock photography agency, has opened the doors to the first specialty store of multi-cultural stock imagery depicting the accomplishments of Latin, Asian, Indian, [...]

By Daryl Lang for PDNonline.com:
“Theo Westenberger, whose versatility with portraits and travel images won her recognition as a top magazine and advertising photographer, has died. Westenberger died Thursday at her home in New York after a four-year battle with lung cancer, according to Colleen Keegan, a friend and her artistic executor. She was 57. [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Art of Photography Show, a major international exhibition, announced today their “Call for Entries” to photographers around the globe. This world-class exhibition, which runs April 25 to May 23, 2008 at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter, will feature all forms of photographic art. Entries [...]

By Zach Honig of PopPhoto.com:
“While nearly 140 photographers submitted entries from 29 countries, only two carry the distinction of receiving the 2008 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. Ian Martin of Oakland, California and Lorena Ros of Brooklyn, New York were the first two photographers selected to receive the award this year.
Four judges met to [...]

By Stephen Shankland of CNET News:
“Think of it as digital photography 2.0.
In the last decade, photography has been transformed by one revolution, the near-total replacement of analog film cameras by digital image sensors. Now researchers and companies are starting to stretch their wings by taking advantage of what a computer can do with [...]

By Amiee Baldridge of POPphoto.com:
“Sony has added a new model to its Cyber-shot W-series of pocket cameras. The 13.6-megapixel DSC-W300 offers an f/2.8-5.5, 35mm-105mm (35mm equivalent) 3x Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar zoom lens; optical image stabilization; and a 230,000-dot, 2.7-inch LCD. The camera also incorporates an optical viewfinder, and has an ultra-hard titanium coating that Sony [...]

 From ArtDaily.org:
“CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard University Art Museums present Long Life Cool White: Photographs by Moyra Davey, on view from February 28 through June 30, 2008, at the Fogg Art Museum. This exhibition of 40 photographs marks the first survey of Davey’s work, and her first major exhibition in a museum. The photographs on view [...]

By Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“The Virginian-Pilot staff photographer Stephen M. Katz and Getty Images photographer John Moore have received the top honors in the 2008 Pictures of the Year International contest, which is currently underway at the University of Missouri. Katz was named newspaper photographer of the year for work that includes images of [...]

 By Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“The Alexia Foundation has awarded its annual grant to photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair, who plans to continue a project on girls forced into marriage at a young age. “My goal is to create a compassionate portrait of young girls worldwide who are being forced into early adulthood,” Sinclair wrote in her [...]

By Jane Spencer and Juliet Ye for the Wall Street Journal:
“HONG KONG — It turns out that train tracks in Tibet aren’t where the antelope play.
Earlier this week, Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.
The deception — uncovered by [...]