FLINT, MICHIGAN – May 5, 2017: Arms stuffed inside his shirt, Marco Vaughn, 17, becomes silent and contemplative while hanging out at the house of a neighborhood friend.
FLINT, MICHIGAN – January 4, 2017: Amus Watt, 34, delivers fish to an nearby elderly woman at the intersection where Jacquee Gardener, 19, was shot and killed early last June. “It really got out of hand with all the drugs,” Watt said. “People have no common sense, they only think about themselves. It ain’t like it was back in the day.”
DURHAM, N.C. – December 1, 2016: Rico Phelps, 61, a homeless Vietnam War veteran, tours an apartment unit at the Denson Apartments for Veterans, a veterans-only complex aimed at getting veterans off of the streets. Phelps discovered the apartment complex through his local Veterans Affairs hospital and applied for a unit.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – September 1, 2015: Stuart Castillo sits for a portrait outside his house in Chapel Hill’s historic Northside neighborhood.
HOLLY, MICHIGAN – April 1, 2017: Veteran Bruce Friemark, 62, tunes his guitar before playing battle hymns during a ceremony to honor Vietnam War veterans at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan. Friemark served in the Air Force from 1974-1979. Around 25 individuals gathered to support the veterans, who received commemorative pins and other items to honor their service.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – September 4, 2015: Midway through the process of applying drag makeup, Joshua Yates poses for a selfie as his fianc Babatunde Williams waits for his own makeup to be done in their apartment bathroom. The two have been dating for nearly 10 years, and have been participating in drag events together for nearly as long.
BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA – March 12, 2016: Baseball players momentarily pause their game as a plane departs from Bocas del Toro Airport on Isla Coln, Panama. Their baseball field is located at the end of the airport’s runway and players often stop their games to watch the planes fly overhead.
MUNDY TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN – February 8, 2017: Sergeant Todd Johnson, of the Mundy Township Police Department, walks back to his patrol vehicle after speaking with a motorist who had his high beams activated.
FLINT, MICHIGAN – April 26, 2017: Limousine driver Darren Glynn smooths out a rug in preparation for a client. Glynn has been driving a limo for nearly 30 years, and once owned his own business and catered to wealthy clientele in Huntington Beach, Calif. He moved back to Flint to take his of with elderly mother, and has seen his business struggle due to low demand.
CLAREMONT, N.H. – July 18, 2016: Claremont residents Lora Underwood, 96, right, and her daughter, Carol Wilson, 76, select nail polish colors while on an outing to a nail salon. The color Underwood selected was a hue of hot pink called ÒKiss Me, IÕm Brazilian.Ó
FLINT, MICHIGAN – March 22, 2017: Flint-based rapper Jon Connor sits for a portrait while filming a music video for his song “Where I’m From,” which is featured on his upcoming debut album “Vehicle City” at the Berston Field House. The long awaited album is expected to be released in the summer and will focus largely on issues in the city of Flint. “As far as us as artists, we get to paint the picture to the world as far of what’s really going on,” Connor said. “I think Tupac said it before that we are the news for the kids that don’t watch the news.”
CARRBORO, N.C. – September 1, 2015: Kaley Faulkner stands for a portrait outside her home.
FLINT, MICHIGAN – January 13, 2017: Flint Southwestern’s Altraveon Huddleston holds his head in disappointment after his team was defeated in a home game by city rival Flint Northwestern High School. This game marked the second-to-last times these two teams would meet on the court, as budget constraints are causing the district to merge the rivals into one Flint-area team.
HANOVER, N.H. – July 26, 2016: Jack Robey, 16, stands on the bank of the Connecticut River after a friend damaged the popular swimming hole’s rope swing during midday outing.
