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The article focuses on the increasing popularity of portraits representing high school seniors, that take on an edgy, editorial and very personal look, in the U.S. as of 2010. It is noted that senior-portrait work currently accounts for between 20% and 45% of the business of some wedding and portrait photographers. Factors that need to be considered by photographers when working with teenagers are cited, including listening to their ideas. Among those that contribute to what seniors want from their portraits are trends in music videos and fashion.

The article features the winner and honorable mention in the 2007 Images of the Year photography competition wedding and portrait category in the U.S. A series of photographs taken by New York-based photographer Ted Sabarese won the competition. The photograph of a bride was cited honorable mention.

Presents information on several portraits of U.S. soldiers wounded in the war in Iraq, taken by photojournalist Nina Berman. Profile of U.S. army ranger Jeremy Feldbusch; Information on Alan Jermaine Lewis, a soldier who lost both legs when his Humvee hit a land mine in a Baghdad, Iraq neighborhood; Camera she used to shoot Alex Pressman, a marine injured by a landmine outside of Baghdad.

Profiles Platon, a New York City-based photographer. Controversy over the portrait he took of U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2000; Description of his technique in taking pictures; Events which led him to discover his own style of portraiture. INSET: PLATON ON PORTRAITURE.

The article highlights the 2007 Images of the Year Competition held in the U.S. Countries participating in the contest include the Philippines, Sweden and South Africa. Categories in it are photojournalism, advertising, personal work and wedding and portrait. Judges consist of Anthony Bannon, director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York and William Hunt, co-director of the Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York City.

The article focuses on Brooklyn, New York City-born photographer Valery Rizzo, member of the "American Photo" Creative Showcase group of the Web site Flickr, whose work is dedicated to a photographic portrait of the borough she still calls home, shot with Holga and Woca plastic cameras.

The article profiles photographer Karen Kuehn. She was included in the most in-demand editorial photographers in the 1990s. Kuehn has been recently working for a number of commercial clients such as the portraits of New Mexico artists. She attended the Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, California before doing an internship at "National Geographic."

Provides information on the portrait of U.S. Senator John McCain taken by New York City-based photographer Platon. Experience of Platon with McCain during the shoot; Politician and celebrity portrait included in Platon's book "Platon's Republic".