Novus Select photographer Katja Heinemann recently shot for The Southern Poverty Law Center. The S.P.L.C. is launching a campaign to draw attention to the damage done by the pray-the-gay-away “therapy” approaches that are supported by various religious groups in the United States. As part of this effort, Heinemann produced a series of portraits of Chaim Levin, a young orthodox Jewish man who has been an outspoken opponent of “reparative therapy” and sexual abuse in his religious enclave of Brooklyn.

To view more work from Katja Heinemann, visit Novus Select.

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Everyone at Aurora Photos and Novus Select would like to wish you a wonderful and happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is a chance to take some time to recognize the people and things that make you happy. Love comes in all forms and we’ve put together a small gallery of the images that make us happy.

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During the summer of 2010, Michael Hanson, David Hanson and Edwin Marty traveled across the United States to twelve different cities to document the American urban farming movement. They met visionaries and regular old farmers alike, from Seattle down to California, through the heartland to New Orleans, up the east coast to Brooklyn, and back around west in Detroit and Chicago. They ended up with a well-rounded view of the healthy ideas that might change our broken food system. They have made a full-color book, which has just been printed. It will be on bookshelves for mass consumption in January 2012.

To purchase Breaking Through Concrete, please click here.
To view more photos from Michael Hanson, visit Aurora Photos.
To view Michael Hanson’s portfolio, visit Novus Select. 

Novus Select photographer Chris Hinkle was recently published in Bicycling Magazine. “I shot the “Know How” section of a cyclist riding up the Catalina Highway on Mt Lemmon in Tucson, AZ.” You can pick up a copy on news stands this month.

To view more images from Chris Hinkle, visit Novus Select.

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If you watched this years Super Bowl and happened to catch the half time show, slackline star Sketchy Andy (Andy Lewis) seems to have stolen all of performer Madonna’s glory, at least for a short while. In the top picture Andy is seen walking across a high-line at the Fruit Bowl in Moab, UT. The bottom image is of Andy working on a world record high-line, some three hundred and forty feet long at the Fruit Bowl in Moab, UT.

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To view more images of Andy “Sketchy” Lewis slacklining, visit Aurora Photos.

A wonderful write up from AdWeek Magazine about Corey Rich and the Novus Select team on their unmasking of the Nikon D4 video, “Why”.

To read the article, click here.
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What exciting new location awaits you this coming year? Will it be abroad or a place near by that you’ve been dying to explore? At Aurora this year we have made lots of new friends and have been able to experience new beginnings but there is still more to see! So where will you go in 2012?

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Let us be your guide, visit Aurora Photos.

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This year was a standout year for us at Aurora Photos and Novus Select. We saw amazing contributions from our photographers and lots of new faces make their home here with Aurora. We’d like to wish everyone a happy holidays and for all to be merry!

Blake Gordon / Aurora Photos

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Aurora photographer Shoshannah White was recently granted permission to install “Stand of Elms” at the University of Maine in Orono, ME. “Stand of Elms” is an illuminated glass sculpture of photographs that wrap around the cube as one continuous landscape and capture a group of American Elm trees in Castine, Maine.

From Shoshannah, “The University’s campus mall was at one time lined with American Elm trees – almost all of which suffered the blight of Dutch Elm Disease. Dr. Richard Campana (1918 – 2005, professor emeritus at the University of Maine, Orono) was an expert on Dutch Elm Disease and helped develop/administer a vaccine that saved innumerable American Elm trees including more than 300 in the town of Castine, Maine.”

To view more images from Shoshannah White, visit Aurora Photos.

Aurora photographer Ron Koeberer’s photo of vintage airplanes inside the Great Gallery at the Museum of Flight was used on Bing.com. The Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, with a collection of more than 150 historically significant air and spacecrafts. The museum’s exhibits include commercial, military, and civilian aviation.

To view more images from Ron Koeberer, visit Aurora Photos.