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    Alessandra Ashley lives in Ohio and is uplifted by time spent in nature, hiking, and travel. She took the image on this month’s cover at the Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic. The team is preparing their balloon for liftoff.

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    Michael Mwasi (FILMWASI) lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where he works in a nightclub and uses his income to share printed copies of his street photography with the people he photographs. He took the image on this month’s cover—of his friends Eunice, a vocalist, and Martking, a rapper—at an outdoor gathering during the pandemic. You can follow Mwasi on Instagram: @filmwasi.

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    Sol Anzorena was born in Argentina, raised in Spain, and now lives off-grid on the shore of Lake Superior. When she isn’t foraging mushrooms, she creates art and music. The image on this month’s cover is part of her photo series “The Skin I Leave,” which explores the changing beauty of human bodies. The model is her friend Abdoul.

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    Carsten Egevang combines his background in natural science and twenty-five years of photography field experience to document Greenland, Arctic wildlife, and the connection between humans and animals in the Arctic environment. He took the photo on this month’s cover in Siorapaluk, Greenland’s northernmost settlement, in June 2013. Subsistence hunter Peter Avike, dressed in the traditional costume of kamiks (sealskin boots) and trousers made from polar-bear skin, was playing soccer on Greenland’s National Day.

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    Andy Hann left Los Angeles after a thirty-five-year advertising career and set up shop as a photographer in North Carolina. He took the image on this month’s cover in La Verne, California, after a softball game. Ella is a pitcher and outfielder for the Firecrackers.

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    Lisa Whiteman lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, and is happiest when documenting life with her camera. She took this month’s cover photo, of her son wearing a three-piece suit and his sister’s tap shoes, in New York City.

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    Gloria Baker Feinstein lives in Portland, Oregon. Her most recent book of photography, I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For, includes poems by former Oregon poet laureate Kim Stafford. When Feinstein and her husband sold many of their possessions at an estate sale, she took pictures to help her process the loss. The man on this month’s cover bought a couple of her husband’s ties.

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    Cyrille Druart has experimented in architecture, graphic design, and photography. The image on this month’s cover is of his girlfriend, Marine, in Berlin, Germany. A double-glazed window created the overlapping reflections.

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    Natali Herrera-Pacheco is a Venezuelan artist and scholar who has taught at the University of North Texas, Texas Christian University, and Texas Woman’s University. She took the image on this month’s cover one wintery morning on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.

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    Kathryn Almand lives in the Pacific Northwest and enjoys nature and landscape photography. She took the image on this month’s cover in Medford, Oregon. It was the first time she’d seen a coyote in the wild.

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