ASME cover awards, finalist 2009: fashion & beauty magazine cover :

Christopher Anderson’s photograph of models backstage at a fashion show for the fall 2008 cover of the semi-annual New York Look is documentary photography at its finest, using an arresting composition and bold color to create an image of abstract beauty that perfectly conveys the sensibility of the magazine. Look is less about the clothes themselves than about the fashion shows as phenomena. The image, candid and captured in-camera, yet looking like a piece of constructed art, was both a stunning photograph and a strikingly effective magazine cover.