Scott Wallace's startling photograph of U.S. troops detaining an Iraqi looter, shot in Baghdad in 2003 during the early occupation, is featured as the cover image for a new booklet, "Reporting War," published by the Dart Society in late 2007. The handbook, authored by veteran reporter Sharon Schmickle, is the outgrowth of a retreat sponsored by the Dart Center For Journalism & Trauma in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire which brought together a dozen experienced war reporters and photographers to discuss the emotional challenges raised by their duties in the field. The Dart Center provides resources for journalists, educators, students and news organizations interested in the intersection of journalism and issues surrounding violence and trauma. Its mission is to promote best practices among journalists who cover war, violence and trauma -- and the victims of such events. The Dart Society is a cohort of reporters and photographers dedicated to promoting humane, meaningful coverage of life-shattering events. More information on the Center and the Society can be found at: www.dartcenter.org.

Scott Wallace most recent work, "The Last of the Amazon," is featured in the cover story in the January 2007 issue of National Geographic. Decades of rampant deforestation -- together with global climate change -- now threaten the rainforest with whithering drought, raising the spectre of uncontrollable wildlfires. Please read the January 2007 issue with this important story, based on Wallace's reporting along the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. Click here to see a preview of the story on National Geographic's website.

In other news, Wallace's profile of renowned naturalist George Schaller appears in the December 06-January 07 National Geographic Adventure. Sharing a two-month expedition through Afghanistan's rugged Wakhan Corridor with Schaller, photographer Beth Wald and Wallace covered hundreds of miles of high-altitude desert steppe on foot, horseback and yak in search of the elusive Marco Polo sheep. Read Wallace's protrayal of Schaller and their journey through the western Himalaya now available on National Geographic Adventure's website.

In 2005, Wallace returned to the Alaskan Arctic to document the rift between Native Alaskan cultures over the issue of oil development on the North Slope. His article and photographs appeared on the newsstand cover issue of Smithsonian magazine, October 2005.

The assignment followed on the heels of a round-the-world assignment documenting development projects for the World Bank's Permanent Collection. Wallace photographed projects financed by the Bank in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania (Lake Victoria and Zanzibar), Eritrea, Yemen, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Bangladesh. The projects included: rural road construction in the High Atlas, HIV awareness campaign in Eritrea, microfinance for disadvantaged women in Yemen, and stipends for destitute schoolgirls in the Kurdish areas of eastern Turkey and in rural Bangladesh. To view photographs from the assignment, please see Around the World parts one and two in the Photo Gallery of this website.

More of Wallace's photos -- from his Vanity Fair assignment to Afghanistan with Al Qaeda and terrorism expert Peter Bergen -- can be veiwed at Bergen's website: www.peterbergen.com.

Scott Wallace was recently named Smithsonian Magazine Featured Photographer.