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    Kris Chambas is a retired pediatric nurse practitioner and former pastry chef. She lives on a lake in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and loves spending time with her grandchildren and their yellow Lab, Odie. She snapped our June cover photo on a humid morning in a cattle barn at the Wisconsin State Fair.

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    Will Harlan Campbell lives in Durham, North Carolina, just a couple of miles from the high school where he took his first photography class some thirty years ago. Today he specializes in analog and historic photographic processes. His tintype portrait of Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah was exposed directly on a sensitized metal plate in camera using the historic wet-plate collodion process. (willharlancampbell.com)

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    Neil Jacobs has been a still photographer for over fifty years. His photojournalism career began in Northern California and took him to New Mexico, where he worked for the Santa Fe bureau of the Albuquerque Journal. He took this month’s cover image while on assignment in Roy, New Mexico, when he found himself drawn to the uncompleted mural behind a patron at a bar. (neiljacobsphotographer.com)

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    John Wehrheim was born in Chicago and now lives on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i. An award-winning photographer and documentary filmmaker, he has documented Hawaiian architecture, landscapes, and communities since 1969. He took this month’s cover photo on Ke‘e Beach, as his daughter and two neighborhood children stood to greet the sunrise.

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    Andy Hann is an experimental fine art photographer from Austin, Texas. He spent nearly forty years in the television industry before he decided to throw it all away and devote himself full-time to photography. It was then that he first turned his lens toward skateboarders. (hannpr.com)

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    Fernando Gomes aims to convey, through his photographs, the experience of a split second in time. This month’s cover photograph is of his wife, Hanna, on her twenty-third birthday. (fernandogomes.co)

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    Fernando Gomes aims to convey, through his photographs, the experience of a split second in time. This month’s cover photograph is of his wife, Hanna, on her twenty-third birthday. (fernandogomes.co)

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    Jodi Frediani lives in California amid foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions. She took this month’s cover photo while swimming with humpbacks off the coast of Tonga. An award-winning photographer, she recently published Wild Monterey Bay, an anthology illustrated with her photos. (jodifrediani.com)

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    Wesley Verhoeve is a photographer based in the Netherlands. He took this month’s cover photo in Manhattan, New York, in 2019. Artist Ephraim Gebre was just about to start painting a mural on the wall behind him.

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    Eric Davidove lives in the Bay Area. He shot this month’s cover photo on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in Iceland in October 2023. He felt lucky to be visiting Búðakirkja—the Black Church—while a wedding was taking place.

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