The kids.
20 month old triplets Lily, left, Taylor, center, and Ava Shanefelter, right, enjoy cookies offered to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit “graduates.” The Shanefelter’s were born 29-and-a-half weeks premature.
Hey man, I got my master's!
So what, you my master now?
-Chris Rock
I just defended my Master's project at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. My project, Adjusting to American Life: Refugees' Faith & Community, documents Burundian refugees in Columbia, Mo. You can view it here.
Prom for the physically disabled.
I. 12th grader Johnathan Krupitzer, center, talks to her prom date, Darnisha Burney, right, before the prom promenade for physically disabled students at Pioneer High School.
II. Darnisha Burney smiles at her prom date, Johnathan Krupitzer, before the promenade.
III. Peer educator Joann Koslow speaks with Krupitzer before the promenade for the prom at Pioneer High School. “It’s very nerve-wrecking,” Krupitzer said. “You’re not too sure what you are going to do when you are out there.”
Portraits
Installation artist Tom Sarver poses with “Sarver’s Bait & Tackle” exhibit in Pittsburgh. An avid fisherman, the SUNY Purchase master’s student found inspiration after traveling around Pennsylvania chatting with fishing enthusiasts.
Chester Jackson at his mother-in-law’s house in Ross Township. In 1990, after looking at his birth certificate and seeing no name under the “mother” category, Jackson learned that the woman who raised him, Geneva Jackson, was not his biological mother. “I was relieved [when I discovered this],” Jackson said. “Growing up I knew something was different between me and my family. A lifetime of unspoken questions were then answered.”
This is not the picture I used, but I like Jackson's face.
Installation artist Tom Sarver poses with “Sarver’s Bait & Tackle” exhibit in Pittsburgh. An avid fisherman, the SUNY Purchase master’s student found inspiration after traveling around Pennsylvania chatting with fishing enthusiasts.
Chester Jackson at his mother-in-law’s house in Ross Township. In 1990, after looking at his birth certificate and seeing no name under the “mother” category, Jackson learned that the woman who raised him, Geneva Jackson, was not his biological mother. “I was relieved [when I discovered this],” Jackson said. “Growing up I knew something was different between me and my family. A lifetime of unspoken questions were then answered.”
This is not the picture I used, but I like Jackson's face.
I covered a project my friend is working on. The story is about high school students who live together in a transitional living home. On this day, they helped volunteer for a community event. They operated games and participated in the talent show, where they performed the Ice Cream and Cake Dance, a new craze sweeping the nation's youth... I am sure many photojournalists will document these moves this summer.
New relics.
The first set of pictures are from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. I remember going there a lot when I was younger. The museum is newly rebuilt, and I went there for the first time in a while. Unfortunately, I didn't make it out of the aquarium exhibit. The morning light was too pretty to pass up. Can you name the fish?
The second set of pictures are from the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. The plants are stored in a building erected in 1879; SFCS is the oldest existing public conservatory on the Western Hemisphere.
My dad asked me to take a picture of him for some newsletter he will be featured in.
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