Aurora Select contributor Callie Shell’s portrait of Barack Obama appears on the cover of Time magazine. Shell photographed the presidential candidate on the campaign trail through the North Carolina and Indiana Primaries. Time’s website also features, Behind the Scenes with Obama, a media presentation of Shell’s images of Obama, “behind the scenes on election night in Pennsylvania.”

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Aurora Select contributor Katja Heinemann’s portrait of Rick Moody ran in the April issue of, Brigitte, Germany’s leading women’s magazine. Rick Moody is the author of The Ice Storm and more recently The Diviners and Right Livelihoods. “It was shot during an interview with a foreign correspondent who had flown in from Germany, I guess you could say that Rick Moody, although notoriously camera shy, showed his visitors around his Brooklyn Park Slope neighborhood, including this spot in Prospect Park, a favorite summertime hang-out for him,” Heinemann comments.

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Aurora photographer Stephanie Diani’s images appear in House24 magazine. “I photographed the Hilton Head, South Carolina house of Domenico and Eleanor De Sole for House24 Magazine in early February 2008. The magazine requested images of the house, showing its location on the beach, as well as portraits of the owners,” Diani explains. She adds, “Mr. De Sole and his wife were incredibly hospitable and let myself and my assistant stay in their attached guest house (it is probably three times the size of the house I grew up in). The only hiccup on the assignment was that my assistant had a huge fight with his girlfriend via text message which lasted throughout the trip. It was brutal. They’ve since resolved their issues.”

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Aurora Select photographer Bob Croslin captures Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. Philadelphia Magazine wanted a photograph of Manuel away from the baseball field. “The concept was to photograph him in a way that illustrated his stature as a manager,” Bob recalls. “The table of contents image came as my stylist was doing touch-ups on Charlie and several of the Phillies players drove by and gave him a good-natured heckling.” The story appears in the April issue of Philadelphia Magazine.

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Aurora Select photographer Corey Rich captures Bear Grylls in an ad for the Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild. The portrait was taken during Corey’s second photo shoot for Man vs. Wild in the Patagonia range in Argentina. In theme with the nature of Man vs. Wild, Corey recalls dealing with some strenuous tough conditions during the photo shoot, including rain, snow and 100+ MPH winds.

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Aurora contributing photographer Matt Eich’s images on poverty in Chauncey, Ohio appears in the April 28th issue of Newsweek Magazine. “I was happy to see these images published because it has become a very personal project for me in the time I have been working on it and living in the area,” Eich explains. He adds, “To me, putting images forth for the public to discuss and dissect is the first step towards moving away from making certain parts of our society invisible.”

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Aurora Select photographer Bob Croslin’s portrait of 16-year-old Lakeland, Florida cheerleader Tori Lindsay appears in the April 28th issue of People Magazine. On March 30th six fellow female classmates beat up Tori and videotaped the fight to post to Youtube and Myspace. Bob recalls, “Tori was reluctant to be photographed and I was originally only supposed to photograph her parents. After leaving the Lindsay’s home I received a call from the reporter asking me to return because Tori had agreed I could take her photograph.” The video of Tori’s beating is one among 5,000 “girl fight” videos on Youtube.

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Aurora contributor Carolyn Djanolgy’s portraits appear in the April issue of Easy Living magazine. “The project is a celebration of the female form, and comprises black and white nudes of talented, dynamic women of varying ages and professions. Subjects include Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Helena Bonham Carter, Amy Winehouse, Greta Scacchi and Sade,” Djanogly writes. Djanogly is currently, “working on a book of portraits in aid of The Lavender Trust, a charity set up specifically to support YOUNG women with breast cancer.”

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Aurora Select photographer Corey Rich spotlights the beauty of the High Sierra for the May/June issue of American Photo. Corey is featured among fellow photographers Franz Lanting, Martin Parr, and Stephanie Pfriender Stylande for “The 10 Places You Must Photograph.” Corey chose the High Sierra, explaining in the article, “there is an alpine glow before dawn and after sunset that is phenomenal. It creates something magical.”

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Aurora Select photographer John Lee captures the leaders of San Francisco’s green movement for the annual “Green Issue” of 7×7 Magazine. Among these forerunners are a 16-year-old girl who is leading the charge for teens to start using environmentally conscious makeup and a senior vice president for Safeway supermarkets who has instituted alternative fuels for the company’s delivery trucks, solar panels on store rooftops, and the use of wind energy. John’s main challenge in the photo shoot, he says, was location scouting for each of the portraits. “Despite California’s reputation as a very natural place, it can sometimes be very hard to find a natural location for shoots. Although the subjects had limited time, after a little searching, beautiful California did not disappoint in providing the perfect backdrops just outside the busy city.”

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