Aurora photographer Callie Shell will be featured in the August edition of Twoj Styl Magazine (Poland).  Interviewed by the photo editor Grazyna Saniuk, the article is about Shell’s documentation of Barack Obama for TIME magazine.

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Aurora photographer Matt Shonfeld’s images of Norway’s Lofoten Islands were featured in K Magazine of Greece, as well as in the Travel Section of theNew York Times Online.  View the entire NYT Online piece on the Lofoten Islands here. Read the rest of this entry »

Images of Lodz, an industrial town in central Poland by Cedric Gerbehaye of Aurora partner agency, Agence VU are featured in the Spring 2009 issue of Foto8, a publication in the UK.
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Aurora photographer Jason Florio was interviewed recently by Amber Terranova for PDN Pulse, PDN’s photography blog.  In the interview, Jason talks about his experiences at Review Santa Fe, an event that gives professionals the chance to get their portfolios reviewed, network with other people in the field, as well as enjoy a wicked good Mexican buffet.  When asked what the most significant part of the review was for him, Jason replied “…to me the most significant part was being with my peers and having one on one conversations with them, seeing their amazing and inspiring work, sharing experiences and discussing working in the market under current conditions.”  To read the rest of the interview, click here.

To see more work by Jason Florio, visit Aurora Photos.

Aurora photographer Michael Hanson’s image of a cityscape in Cuba is featured on a double-page spread of the German magazine, Cicero in it’s May 28, 2009 edition.

To view more work by Michael Hanson, please visit Aurora Photos.

An image by Aurora Photographer Christopher Herwig will be published as the cover of a new book, The Lassa Ward: One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases by Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH when it is published in May 2009.  The image, shot in 2006 and entitled Road to Bo, Sierra Leone shows “a young boy standing on the dirt road through the rainforest near the town of Mile 91 on the way to Bo from Freetown. The highway is one of the main transport routes through the country”.  The book describes the struggle of Ross Donaldson, then a medical student at the war-torn border of Sierra Leone and Liberia, as he attempts to stop the progression of the deadly Lassa Fever that has gripped the countryside.

To view more images by Christopher Herwig, please visit Aurora Photos.

Aurora photographer Callie Shell’s image of Barack Obama, taken during his first 100 days in office, is featured on a double-page spread of the “Econoimage” section of the Swiss magazine Bilan on May 20, 2009.

To view more work by Callie Shell, visit Aurora Photos.

Photo by Keith Ladzinski/Aurora Photos.

Photo by Corey Rich/Aurora Photos.

The cover story for the April 29, 2009 edition of the British Journal of Photography featured interviews with Aurora photographers Corey Rich and Keith Ladzinski, naming them as 2 of the 4 best in the field.  Keith discusses the equipment he commonly uses on shoots and recounts some of his more harrowing adventures in the field. “I’ve shot all over the world, from the Rocklands of South Africa to an alpine ascent near Golden in British Columbia. That was a miserable experience but somehow fun. We were choppered in and dropped off for a six-day stay in the backcountry, but on our arrival the light snow turned into a full-fledged blizzard…” says Keith.

Aurora shooter and Vice President Corey Rich talks about his team at Corey Rich Photography, at Aurora and how the love of photography will get you through the tough times. “I didn’t get into it to be rich, and at the beginning it was a labor of love. But if you’re a talented and motivated you can make a living at it. Believe it or not, great photos are in short supply. It takes time to get started – at the beginning you need to fund your own shoots and rely on the stock sales….Then you need to prove to the editors that you can do it, but the more you get published….the more editors begin to recognize you as a player in the photography industry. It can be a long road, so it helps if you’re shooting subject matter you know and love.”

To read the entire article, visit http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=854564.

To view more images by Keith Ladzinski and Corey Rich, visit Aurora Photos.

Five images of First Lady Michelle Obama by Aurora photographer Callie Shell are featured in the May 28, 2990 issue of Visao, a Portuguese publication.

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A culmination of images captured over the course of a decade by Aurora photographer Steven J. Kazlowski now compose a book and traveling exhibit, titled The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World. The photographs were taken in various locations from Canada’s Arctic coast to Point Hope, Alaska in celebration of the great, but struggling animal and to document the affect of our changing climate on it’s future.

Steven says, “I offer these images as witness to an iconic species and an ecosystem that may be lost to future generations if we, as a global community, do not take action now.”

The exhibit opened it’s 10 city national tour on May 16, 2009 at The University of Alaska’s Museum of the North and will be traveling next to The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington on June 28, 2009. Visit The Burke Museum’s website for more information on the exhibit here at http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/polarbear/about.php. Check here for the entire exhibit schedule, coming at http://www.lefteyepro.com/globalwarming.html.

A playful spring polar bear (Ursus Maritimus) cub plays with a piece of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) baleen at sunrise, Barter Island, 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.  Every fall, Inupiaq subsistence whalers from the village of Kaktovik, catch up to three whales then leave the carcass outside of town.  Polar bears waiting on land for fall sea ice freeze up arrive to scavenge the carcasses. Photo by Steven Kazlowski/Aurora Photos. Read the rest of this entry »