Vaughn Wallace

TIME Lightbox Out There Playing with Food: Posing with Piglets at Dinner July 12, 2011 A new book of found photography highlights a piglet's unusual relationship with dinner guests at a restaurant in Montreal. While cleaning out his mother’s belongings, Michel Campeau, co-editor of in almost every picture #10, made an unexpected discovery—a photograph of a table full of dinner guests stroking a pig.

Presidential photographers are afforded access to their subjects that most journalists only dream of. Pete Souza, David Hume Kennerly, Eric Draper — all are well-known names in the photographic community for their day in, day out documentation of the White House. Part journalist, part historian and part public-relations agent, the president's official photographer chronicles both the official and the private workings of some of the most public men in the world.

At its most elemental, photojournalism documents conflict -- conflict between individuals, between nations, between ideologies, between humanity and nature. Literally and figuratively, photographers capture conflagrations large and small. Some burn strong and fast; others -- often the more frightening, and more destructive -- burn more slowly. They smolder. Tonight, Robin Hammond , a New Zealand-born photojournalist, received the $30,000 W.