Aurora contributor Coke Whitworth’s portraits of Venus Flytraps appear in the March-April 2008 issue of Audubon magazine. “I followed a group of scientists that were locating and tagging Venus Flytraps in the Pocosin pine area of coastal North Carolina,” Whitworth explains. “The Venus Flytrap, which is native to the area, is experiencing a great many environmental ‘stresses’ these days with a shrinking habitat due to wetlands development, and constant poaching of the desirable plant.” He adds, “It was an amazing experience working on a macro level shooting plant portraits and getting to study the architecture of these ‘meat eating’ machines.”

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Aurora contributor Eric Rorer’s photographs of environmental threats facing the Galapagos islands are featured in the March 2008 issue of Newsweek Japan. “I originally went on this assignment to document research by science historian Frank Sulloway, who has special permits to access parts of the islands where tourists are not allowed,” explains Rorer. “What I soon realized is that the travel restrictions on tourists, which are necessary for protecting the islands, are also working to camouflage the serious threats facing the archipelago. The truth is that damage to areas off limits to tourists is often much worse than in areas open to tourists. The tourist zones are quite small and relatively well maintained. Garbage is cleaned up, and invasive plants are removed. On the other hand, beaches in closed areas are frequently lined with trash dumped overboard by local fishermen and cruise ships. I’m hoping some of these images will shed light on what’s really going on.”

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Opening, March 29, 2008 at the Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, Alberta-Canada, Aurora Select photographer Todd Korol’s “Cities: The Carbon Prints.” The show is a look at how Art and Architecture help develop a soul of the city. “Cities; The Carbon Prints” is a culmination of over 2 years of work. Says Todd, “I am interested in how a city feels, not how a city looks.” Todd focused on simple forms and light using an engineered lens on traditional camera body and black and white film. With photographs from New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C, the show run until April 19, 2008.

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Aurora Select photographer Katja Heinemann captured author Siri Hustvedt, half of Brooklyn’s reigning literati power couple with Paul Auster and author of the forthcoming novel “Sorrows of an American,” which will be published in April. Katja’s portrait of Siri appeared in the Spring Fashion issue of Brigitte, a German Women’s Magazine.

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Aurora Select Photographer Bob Croslin was in the studio with Atlantic hip-hop artist Plies for press of his lastest gold-selling album. Bob’s photographs of Plies appeared in the Winter ’08 issue of Down Magazine.

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Aurora photographer Andrew Kornylak is featured in the April issue of Garden and Gun magazine. The article, Southern Crew, explores competitive rowing while, “profiling a head race in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.” Kornylak writes, “Though I was a competitive athlete in college, rowing was something I passed up in favor of individual sports. Shooting the head race in Oak Ridge confirmed my first impressions of it as particularly grueling sport, but I also learned what I had missed out on, like the meditative beauty of slicing through water at dawn, and of the amazing synchronized power of a strong eight.”

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Aurora Select photographer Andrew Cutraro’s photographic essay, “America’s Boulevard” is featured in the March 2008 issue of Japan Newsweek. The story examines, “the two sides of America’s Boulevard,” Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Aurora Select photographer Bob Croslin photographed World Wrestling Entertainment’s Divas for the Magazine’s March Issue. The WWE Divas, Ashley, Mickie, and Maria, were captured participating in their favorite beach activities in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

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Aurora Select photographer Corey Rich photographed Chris Sharma for the upcoming April issue of Sports Illustrated Kids. Corey captured Chris in Hampi, India as well as in Mallorca, Spain on his Es Pontas project, an unroped climb of a rock arch over 30 feet above water.

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Flight Quest is a Discovery Channel reality show that follows hosts Jimmy Smith and Doug Anderson as they travel the globe learning new forms of hand-to-hand combat. Select photographer John Lee explains, “the taping I photographed was for their show on “Kajukenbo,” a hybrid of different martial arts-based fighting technique that originated in Hawaii.”

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