The Lowepro-Aurora Photos Design Council has been featured on the Lowepro website including a video produced by Aurora Novus that showcases the design council’s activities during the 2009 Aurora Photographer’s Meeting.

Lowepro describes, “An inspiring meeting of minds! The Lowepro-Aurora Photos (LPAP) Design Council kicked off at Aurora Photos’ Photographer Meeting in Sebago, Maine in September. Notable pros and Lowepro partners tossed around ideas and tested new products. Check out a few of the highlights in the video below. The LPAP Design Council will take part in interactive design sessions, discuss emerging technologies, and share insights on the rigors and challenges faced by commercial, outdoor, adventure and sports photographers, and photojournalists.”

View Lowepro’s write-up at http://www.lowepro.com/community/aurora.

Aurora Photos is excited to announce the first Aurora Multimedia Workshop, in partnership with Rich Clarkson and Associates.  The workshop will take place May 26-29, 2010 on the University of Colorado campus at Boulder in the new, state-of-the-art ATLAS facility.

Aurora President and workshop instructor, Jose Azel says, “Mr. Clarkson and his crew have the history of producing the best workshops around, and together we have constructed a hands-on workshop that provides instruction in combining still photographs, sound, narration and video. The presenters and instructors come from the highest levels of the editorial and advertising world.”

For more information:

• Visit the Workshop Website
• View a tentative schedule [PDF]
• Register Online

Aurora Photos President and photographer José Azel was recently interviewed by his alma mater, Cornell University (Class of ’76), alumni magazine. In it, Azel talks about his career as a photographer, his love of telling visual stories, and being able to successfully find his way through the labyrinth of the photography world. Says Azel, “I’ve always seen myself as a storyteller, telling stories with pictures…I came to that realization more and more when I would go to places like the rain forest and the Congo; I would bring a National Geographic and I’d turn the pages and even pygmies could follow the storyline. They didn’t have to read the text or the captions to get it. It was pretty cool to understand that, when presented correctly, this is a universal language.“  You can read the article in its entirety by clicking here.

To see more work by José Azel, visit Aurora Photos.

Aurora Photographer Anders Ryman’s book Rites of Life has now been released in a trilingual (English-German-French) edition. Ryman, who wrote and photographed the book, traveled to more than twenty different countries documenting the life cycle rituals of the various cultures he came in contact with. An accompanying exhibition from this project will be touring internationally this summer. You learn more about Ryman’s monumental project by visiting here.

To see more work by Anders Ryman, visit Aurora Photos.

Santa Rita Mennonite community near Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Aurora Photographer Karla Gachet has been recognized for her outstanding work by this years jury for the 67th Annual Pictures of the Year International awards. You can see the full list of this years winners by clicking here. Read the rest of this entry »

Aurora Photographer Thomas Backer’s nighttime silhouette image was chosen for the cover of Ana Grey’s newest April Smith FBI mystery novel Judas Horse.

To see more work by Thomas Backer, visit Aurora Photos.