Nina Marie Ventra

Nina Marie Ventra is a full-time photographer and sculptor living on the southern Oregon coast, where she’s looking for land to start an arboretum and sculpture park. She took this month’s cover photograph in 2009 at Burning Man, an annual weeklong event in the Nevada desert. The couple in the photo had just emerged from their tent in the morning. The woman was eight months pregnant at the time, and she and her pediatrician husband have since had another baby.