By Richard Pyle of the Associated Press:
“NEW YORK – Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.
Dith died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of [...]

By Ula Ilnytzky of the AP for AM New York:
“NEW YORK – A New York auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography.
The work, “Leaf,” to be sold [...]

From Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“As Getty negotiated a deal to go private, it left the door open to accept a better offer from a strategic partner – perhaps Google, Adobe, Reuters, News Corporation or Sony, new documents indicate. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday show that the Getty board continues [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Charles Bayliss – Landscape Photographer, on view through May 25, 2008. Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) is a leading figure in Australia’s photographic heritage. His photographs provide a unique insight into late nineteenth century Australia, both its landscape and its inhabitants.
The Art Gallery of New South [...]

By David Walker from PDNonline.com:
“The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has hit stock photo agency Corbis with two separate orders to compensate photographers for lost images in recent weeks. Photographer Arthur Grace won a $667,685 judgment on January 30 for the loss of 45,000 images, while photographer Chris Usher was [...]

By Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20. Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white [...]

By Marianne Combs of Minnesota Public Radio:
“August Sander is considered by many photographers to be the father of the modern portrait. He’s influenced the likes of Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, and Walker Evans. An exhibition of a selection of his portraits is now on display at the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Minn. — [...]

By Eli Rosenblatt of The Jewish Daily Forward:
“When you look at a photograph that depicts an act of violence — or, in the case of Lane H. Montgomery’s new photography book, “Never Again, Again, Again” (Ruder Finn), an act of genocide — you might assume that the photographer took a substantial amount of time to [...]

By Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20. Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white [...]

 Randy Kennedy reports for The New York Times:
“Philip Jones Griffiths, a crusading photojournalist whose pictures of civilian casualties and suffering were among the defining images of the war in Vietnam, died on Wednesday at his home in London. He was 72.

The cause was cancer, said Richard Hughes, an actor and activist who befriended Mr. Griffiths [...]