Your Turn: Rites Of Passage

Nina Berman‘s photo of Iraq veteran Ty Ziegel and his wife, Renee Kline, won a first prize in the portraits category in the 2007 World Press photo awards announced Friday.

What are your first reactions?

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… I ask because I’m interested in what initial assumptions you made that were mostly that, and what new thoughts and questions you had after reviewing Nina’s extensive photo gallery of Ty (led off by a sweet "before" picture of the couple) here at the Redux Stock photo site. (Note: these images are for commercial sale only).

Nina Berman website.

Nina’s Digital Journalist "Purple Hearts" gallery.

Purchase the book: Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq.

(image: Nina Berman/Redux.  Metamora, Illinois. Oct 07, 2006)