The concept for Lil Wayne's album Rebirth, shot in Los Angeles, was to echo rock's larger-than-life legends, like the Rolling Stones, conveying supreme confidence and an anything-goes attitude.

A contestant on the reality show America's Next Top Model, with Mannion as the episode's featured photographer, had a challenge to pose with one piece of clothing, "a job she did with great success."

Baptism was the theme in Miami for Ja Rule's The Last Temptation. The singer overcame his "hesitant moment" to enter an alligator habitat when Mannion joined him in the water.

The photo session with Aaliyah is a Mannion favorite because of the singer's "sweetness." The defining images Mannion captured before Aaliyah's death in 2001 "continue to touch the hearts of her fans."

The photograph of basketballsuperstar Dwayne Wade on a Miamistreet corner for Dime Magazine aimed to convey grit and grounded reality, in contrast to slick NBA photos.

Eminem was photographed in Detroit for a cover story for XXL magazine. "I had become fascinated in working with him over the years by the way that he wrote his lyrics on these scraps of paper," Mannion said. He had the lyric scraps arranged "pin by pin, to achieve what I felt was a moment of Eminem's mastery of his craft."