Andy Isaacson Writing and Photography 

Barbara, polio

James, deaf

President Barack Obama's extended family celebrates his 2008 election victory (Read my accompanying story in U.S. News and World Report.)

Sulamani Pahto

Japanese hiker with mascot

Steven Pelloza, Paul Bunyan Conservation Society

Train to Bagan

A Kyrgyz boy at a remote yurt camp in the Pamir Mountains, near Afghanistan. (Read my accompanying story, "At the Crossroads of History," in The New York Times Travel section.)

Post Office

Good Sam Club RV Rally, World Record attempt for Most Simultaneous High-Fives