December 29, 2003

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Aviation Week's Aerospace Art Awards in Cooporation With The American Society of Aviation Artists

Aviation Week & Space Technology joins the American Society of Aviation Artists for the fourth year in presenting the art in this annual special issue. The works seen here represent the magazine’s top choices in the categories of Military, Commercial, General Aviation and Space, as selected from ASAA’s juried 2003 Annual International Aviation Art Exhibition held at the Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB, Utah.

Reflections

This is the 14th annual Aviation Week & Space Technology photo issue and our fourth to include aerospace paintings. In last year’s photo issue, we ran rarely seen photographs and narrative of the Wright brothers’ flying success at Kitty Hawk and their later achievements.

By David M. North6 min

Winners

Cooke is a freelance photographer who has been involved with air-to-air imagery for 27years. In 1977, he invented a rear-facing camera system that allows very close head-on photography of aircraft. In the 1970s and '80s, Cooke shot all of the Royal Air Force’s air-to-air advertising imagery.

The Judges

Chris Sorensen is an aviation photographer whose work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including covers of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Forbes, Newsweek and Business Week. This year, the German aviation foundation Stiftung Mayday once again used his photos exclusively for its fund-raising calendar.

Best of the Best

Cohen’s introduction to photography began in high school, and his studies continued into college where he majored in photojournalism. Cohen then became an assistant still photographer on a major motion picture set. He was appointed a staff photographer at Bell Helicopter Textron in July 1999, and continues to freelance for several news publications.

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