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Too often the subjects of images of Africa seem to be reduced to symbols - viewers do not encounter them as fully rounded human beings, rarely seeing journalistic images of the middle class, artists or the cultural heritage of African countries. Peter DiCampo, with his iPhone, endeavors to address this.

Hours of driving in the desert inspired Daniel Kukla to haul enormous mirrors into Joshua Tree National Park and photograph contrasts of landscape and sky.

An invite to a 1968 mega-concert helped Jim Cummins land a gig shooting hundreds of album covers, back when covers were a big deal, and record companies spared no expense.

Billy Stinson (L) comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina. The cottage, built in 1903 and destroyed yesterday by Hurricane Irene, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head. Stinson has owned the home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, since 1963. “We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset,” said Erin afterward.

Hurricane Irene moved along the east coast causing heavy flooding damage as far north as Vermont and shutting down the entire New York mass transit system.

When the photographer Rocco Rorandelli traveled to China and India, the world's largest tobacco producers, he found startling differences between the two, as Emily Epstein reports.