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'Capturing Love': How To Photograph Same-Sex Weddings()  

A couple taking in the moment at the San Tan Valley Desert in Arizona.

June 10, 2013 If you've ever looked through a wedding album, you've seen photos of the groom removing his bride's garter or dipping her on the dance floor. But those poses could be awkward or even offensive for some same-sex couples. The book Capturing Love offers tip to help avoid those problems.

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An Abstract Look At The Food We Eat()  

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June 9, 2013 Photographer Ajay Malghan takes familiar foods and makes them look foreign. He says it's a statement on genetically modified food. But if you want to just appreciate it as abstract art, that's OK too, he says.

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Photo Staff Firings Won't Shake Pulitzer Winner's Focus()  

Ballerinas at practice

June 7, 2013 The Chicago Sun-Times made a surprise announcement last week: It fired its entire photography staff. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H. White spent decades working there. He shares what this news means for him personally and for the future of photojournalism.

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Rio's New Dance Craze: The Passinho()  

Wellington Costa, 19, performs at the semifinals of a passinho competition in Rio de Janeiro on April 23. Passinho is a liberated dance form born in Rio's favelas, or shanty towns.

June 7, 2013 Photographer Lianne Milton explores Rio de Janeiro's new dance form — the passinho — which combines hip-hop and break-dancing with traditional Brazilian dance, such as samba.

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Documenting America's Environments: Then And Now()  

East Boston, Mass., in 1973 (left) and in 2012.

June 1, 2013 In 1971, the the EPA sent photographers around America to document the environmental state of the country. Forty years later, the agency is doing it again. Photographer Michael Philip Manheim talks about returning to some of the locations he photographed.

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