Industry News

Lexar Unveils New Corporate Identity
Lexar Media, Inc. recently unveiled a new corporate identity reflecting its innovative products. Lexar Media will now be known as Lexar. The company holds over 70 controller and system patents, and licenses its technology to companies including Olympus, Samsung, SanDisk Corporation and Sony. Info: www.lexar.com/.

Children’s Portraiture Awards
Marathon Press has announced the publication of Fujifilm’s 2003 Children’s Portrait Awards book. The 148-page, 9x7-inch hard-bound volume features over 140 award-winning images from Fujifilm’s 2003 national “Children’s Portrait Awards” competition. The book can be purchased from Marathon Press for $34.95, plus shipping and handling. Photographers who are accumulating Fujifilm’s product “Points” can use 300 points to purchase the new volume. To order, visit marathonpress.com or call Marathon’ customer service at (800) 228-0629. Photographers who wish to enter the 2004 Children’s Portrait Awards competition can receive complete details by logging on to portraitawards.com.

WPPI and SWPP/BPPA Form Alliance
WPPI and SWPP/BPPA have joined together to create a stronger international union in the world of photography. Both organizations will offer special prices for membership, convention registration discounts, free subscriptions to Rangefinder and Professional Imagemaker magazines, additional discounts on competition entries, special awards, special highlighted members or SWPP/BPPA to appear in upcoming issues of WPPI Photography Monthly. For more details visit: www.wppinow.com/.

In Memoriam—Donna McMahon
Former PPA Chief Operating Officer Donna R. McMahon, Hon.M.Photog., passed away September 12. McMahon, who was with PPA for 30 years, performed many key duties. She was director of events and publications and interim executive director, as well as the organization’s COO. She left PPA in 2002 and was selling real estate in Las Vegas at the time of her death. McMahon is survived by her husband Rod Blood, his daughter Jody, and daughters, Elizabeth McQueen of Virginia and Linda Steiner of Wisconsin, and their families. Memorial services were held on September 25 in Las Vegas, NV.
She was a member of the National Society of Association Executives, and served on the board of directors of the National (now International) Association of Exhibition Managers.