How-to

In photography today, changes come at a blinding speed, and often from the most unexpected of places. Who could predict that a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News would help revolutionize the newspaper business through the use of digital video camcorders? Who would guess that Magnum Photos, whose approach to the future was at once both chaotic and sclerotic, would emerge as a hot brand after partnering with an online magazine? How did a Mexican-born marine biologist turned photographer organize what promises to become a powerful visual force in conservation?

Ted Sabarese
New York City
After seeing this series of portraits by New York-based photographer Ted Sabarese, our judges asked the most obvious question: "I wonder what his nose looks like?" Upon telling Sabarese that he'd won our wedding/portrait category, we put the question to him.
"Oh, I've got a big Italian schnoz," he replied. "I guess you could tell that was my inspiration."

Vincent Dixon
New York City
Not many ad campaigns turn the viewer into a character, as this one does. Who could you be, to garner so much attention simply by walking into a hip restaurant? The meaning of the scene becomes clear when you learn who the client is: Wonderbra.

Ghada Khunji
Brooklyn, New York
Photographer Ghada Khunji shot these scenes of an evangelical church in Virginia as part of a large project to document out-of-the-ordinary places and people across the United States. "My inspiration is Diane Arbus," says Khunji, who studied photography at Parsons School of Design and the International Center of Photography. "I like to shoot things that are a little bit different."