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A picture is worth a thousand words, the adage goes, and editors and page designers take that quite literally. With space in daily newspapers at a premium, photographers generally have one shot at summing up a news event. But what about the quiet or funny moments behind the scenes, the outtakes? The pictures that, for whatever reason, got left on a computer hard drive the way movie extras get cut from a film? Or the photos that were not rendered with the proper gravitas? At year's end, the photographers strike back. Here are the photos that are their favorites or the ones they simply wanted you to see in 2002.

Ken Ige | Craig T. Kojima | George F. Lee | FL Morris
Ayumi Nakanishi | Dennis Oda | Cindy Ellen Russell
Dean Sensui | Richard Walker

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