Narayan Mahon’s short film on Illegal Gold Mining in French Guiana will be presented by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for Natural Resources/Unnatural Results: Access, Exploitation and Accountability as part of the 2012 Environmental Film Festival on March 21, 2012 in Washington D.C.  View images on the Redux Archive here.

Luke Duggleby’s photograph of the Buddhist holy day, Makha Bucha, celebrations at The Phra Dhammakaya temple in Thailand was featured in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic. View more images from the series on the Redux Archive here.

Jared Soares‘ Martinsville project was featured on Wired. View more images from the series on the Redux Archive here.

Erika Larsen’s photograph was featured as the 7th greatest image of 2011 in the “50 Greatest Pictures” special edition of National Geographic.

Greg Ruffing’s photographs of Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago appeared in the January 9-16 issue of Newsweek.

Congratulations to Brent Lewin and Justin Mott who were awarded in the 2012 PDN World in Focus travel photography contest.

Tadej Znidarcic photographed the Rev. John Foundation Little League team of Uganda, who defeated Langley, British Columbia, for the Sunday, January 20, 2012 edition of The New York Times.  The teams played in Kampala after the Uganda players were denied U.S. visas last year for the Little League World Series.

The New York Times photographer Michael Stravato’s photograph of Christopher Hitchens, appeared in the January, 2012 issue of Vanity Fair.

Anzenberger photographer Mario Weigt’s photo of the Kuang Si Falls in Laos appeared in the January/February 2012 issue of Virtuoso Life.

Marc Asnin photographed this report for Gartner.