Aurora contributor Todd Bigelow photographed the owners of the Los Angeles Sparks, together with Lisa Leslie and Candace Parker, two of the stars of the WNBA for the Sports Illustrated WNBA preview in May. Says Todd, “It’s always refreshing to photograph elite athletes who are down-to-earth, friendly and easy to work with. I had shot Lisa and Candace just two days prior for a different spread and we had quite a bit of fun, so I think that helped me get a few extra minutes for this shoot.”

Aurora contributor Peter Essick’s images are currently being showcased at the Henry Gregg Gallery in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York. The show titled, Back in the Day, features six of Essick’s black and white prints that, “were taken when (Essick) was working at a newspaper called The City Sun in Brooklyn from 1988-1991.” The show runs from May 8th until June 15, 2008. To read more details about the show click here.

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Aurora Select contributor Katja Heinemann’s images appear in the May issue of Swiss Sonntagszeitung magazine, as part of a travel piece on Manhattan, New York showcasing locations featured in the upcoming Sex & The City movie. Heinemann explains, “a challenge was to make locations that in real life don’t necessarily look sexy or glamorous without high wattage movie lighting and Sarah Jessica Parker in them look like they’re having sex appeal. The only exception: The meatpacking District, which is shown in the opening image, was still a fairly obscure part of town when I moved to New York. I hadn’t been to the area on a Saturday night in a long time, so when I went to photograph the club scene there for the article I was shocked by the masses of skimpily clad women braving the cobblestone streets in stilettos, with everybody looking as if hey were auditioning for a role as an extra in the lives of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Miranda.”

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Congratulations to Aurora photographers Peter Essick and Justin Maxon for winning in PDN’s recent Photo Annual 2008. Essick’s story, High-Tech Trash, focusing “on the people in developing countries that have to process the often toxic materials from old electronic equipment” won in the Photojournalism/ Sports/ Documentary category. High-Tech Trash, is also currently in the May issue of Audubon magazine. While Maxon’s two series won in the Student Work category; one exploring the, “Agent Orange problem that is still affecting many children throughout Vietnam. And, another series… about a Buddhist homeless women, Mui, and her son Pha… look at how even individuals living with nothing can find happiness in each other.”

To see Peter Essick and Justin Maxon featured in PDN Photo Annual 2008 click here.

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Aurora Select Photographer Corey Rich has partnered with Rich Clarkson & Associates to develop the 3rd Annual National Geographic Adventure Photography Workshop. Fellow Aurora photographers Beth Wald and Keith Ladzinski will also be staff at the workshop to be held September 21-25 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. A full page ad for the workshop appears in the May issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine. It features a portrait of Corey photographing on assignment for The North Face in the Cordillera Blanca, the trekking region of Huaraz and Caraz, Peru.

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Aurora contributor Jared Leeds portraits appear in Italian magazine, Corriere della Sera Style. “The story was about Economists that have made a big splash at a relatively young age. I photographed MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Harvard’s Susan Athey,” Leeds comments. Adding, “within a period of a month or two I photographed about five different economists, all for unrelated stories and publications. Maybe its the downturn in the economy, people are looking answers I guess.”

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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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