Leena Cruz, 10, lounges on a towel outside the pool while waiting for the storm to pass. Families linger outside of the Macungie Pool after thunder threatened to put an early end to the Fourth of July celebrations at the Macungie Memorial Park on July 4, 2018.
A local skater watches his friends perform tricks at a pop-up skating park at Union Market in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2017.
Seung Rhee rests on a gratified bench located underneath a highway in Southwest, D.C. in October 2016. A makeshift skating park has formed littered with cigarette butts and fragments of skateboards left behind.
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks out against Donald Trump's "travel ban", saying it would hurt not just the residents of other countries, but ours too.
A man reads from the Bible outside of the ring of protestors. Protestors self-identified as neo-Nazis, KKK members, white nationalists, American Guard members, and other groups based in white supremacy.
A protestor ties a confederate flag around his face, concealing his identity as he is evacuated from Lee Park after police declared the gathering illegal.
A confederate flag is hoisted on a large pole, and below are flags from the National Socialist Movement, a white civil rights movement.
A militia member sits on the sidewalk waiting for an ambulance after being struck in the head by a rock thrown by a counter protestor. One militia returned to the square of Charlottesville after the initial Unite the Right rally was over, and began walking through surrounding neighborhoods.
The leader of the militia, his beard dyed red, white, and blue, smokes a cigarette and waits for an ambulance to retrieve an injured member.
A sign held by a counter protestor is littered with medical debris after most of the 20 physically injured victims of the hit-and-run were evacuated.
A shopkeeper comes out of her store to witness the scene.After the violence, police blocked off the alleyway where the event occurred.
Locals peer down at police in riot gear in Charlottesville, VA, on August 12, 2017.
An American flag is spray painted with Juggalo icons at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
"Whoop, whoops!" was a common battlecry at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
A Juggalo stands near the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool as the crowd waits for their idols, the International Clown Posse, to appear on stage on September 16, 2017.
David, 28, waves a flag at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017. "It's my first time attending a Juggalo meeting that wasn't held in someone's basement," he said.
A woman carefully applies makeup to her parnter's face at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
Katie and Gary Lyvers lean in for a kiss at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017. Gary has introduced Katie into the Juggalo culture since they met in 2012.
Two men chug Faygo before pouring it on one another at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017. Faygo has become a phenomenon within the Juggalo subculture after the Insane Clown Posse featured the brand in several of its songs.
A man dances to the Insane Clown Posse among marchers for the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
Shadows are cast across the road as people march across the mall at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
A protestor stands in front of the White House holding a transgender pride flag on July 27, 2017, the same evening of Trump's proposed ban of transgender people in the military.
A man displays a rainbow flag as he marches through downtown D.C. with the queer community, celebrating Pride in June of 2017.
A man reads a newspaper in Jerusalem, Israel, on January 7, 2017. He is leaning against a church rectified where Jesus walked with a cross on his back before his crucifixion, according to some sects of Christinaity.
A female protestor pauses against a pillar as a crowd of nearly a thousand pulsates around her, on January 30, 2017. They are protesting the newly-instated executive order by Donald Trump, dubbed his "travel ban".
A man carefully lights a candle resting against the fountain of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. on June 12, 2017. Hundreds gathered to mourn and remember the Pulse nightclub shooting a year later.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at Lisner Auditorium on the George Washington University campus in November 2016. When speaking about working with the upcoming Trump administration, Sanders said, "We are not going backwards in terms of bigotry - we're going to go forward in creating a non-discriminatory society."
Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, held a townhall meeting with CNN in the Jack Morten Auditorium at the George Washington University on January 12, 2017. When asked about Donald Trump, Ryan responded, “I am just marveled and amazed how well he connected with so many people. I think he has a very special, personal relationship with individuals and he connects directly with them.”
Militia members gather at their cars, staring down counter protestors who had gathered, outnumber them 1 to 10.
D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department officers don riot gear and block off downtown streets after protestors became violent on the day of Donald Trump's inauguration. The police formed the line after a self-proclaimed anarchist threw a brick through the window of a government vehicle, injuring a female police officer.
A man exhales from a vape pen at the Juggalo Rally in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
A young boy carries flowers outside for a reception after a funeral in Morehead, KY on October 24, 2017.
A woman walks along the C&O Canal in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2017.
A pilgrim to Jerusalem, Israel, prays in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where it is said that Jesus is buried.
Bundling for warmth in the February cold, a man smokes a cigarette in front of the door of a closed restaurant in Adams Morgan in 2017.
A woman stands at the ice cream counter where she works in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. on September 1, 2017.
A man pauses at a telephone booth to read a sheet of paper in Jerusalem, Israel on December 28, 2016.
A valet waits for his next customer just inside of a restaurant in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. on September 9, 2017.
A little girl walks down a cobblestone path in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel, in the winter of 2016.
A man juggles balls while marching in the Juggalo March on Washington on September 16, 2017.
A man skates as the sun goes down in an abandoned lot in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 2017.
Omran laughs on the couch in his living room as his father tickles him. They have a close relationship.
Men hold Cuban flags after a memorial for the Pulse nightclub massacre at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. on June 12, 2017. The victims of the attack in Orlando, FL, were largely Hispanic, and one Cuban-American man was killed.
Yalda attends second grade, but cannot yet read the books her teachers assign her. She is steadily learning to speak, write, and read English better.
Zeya Gul Sadaat watches her children play at their new home in Silver Spring, MD, on September 16, 2017. The Sadaat family resettled to the United States from Afghanistan in May, seeking safety from the Taliban because their family aided U.S. military during the war.
A demonstrator holds a light-up sign condemning Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' stance on Title IX enforcement during a candlelight vigil on October 19, 2017, outside the Department of Education in downtown D.C.
Self-portrait, 2018.
A dozen homegrown militias served as de-facto security and crowd control during the rally and protests at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, on August 12, 2017.
Emergency personnel load the last victim into an ambulance after a car crashed into a crowd of pedestrians in Charlottesville, VA, after the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017.
A Trump-supporter stands at the edge of the Capitol Building to celebrate inauguration day on January 20, 2017.
A man exhales from his split septum after vaping on the National Mall during the Juggalo March in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2017.
Trey Dockery, 7, blows a firefly off of his fingers in Penrose, North Carolina, in the summer of 2017.
President Donald Trump waves at the crowd during his first National Christmas Tree Lighting on Nov. 30, 2017 in front of the White House in Washington D.C.
A fire hydrant sprays water over runners and their families cooling off after the 26.2-mile Marine Corps Marathon in Washington D.C. on October 22, 2017.
MPD officers stand in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on January 30, 2017. Protestors and Democratic legislators gathered to reject President Donald Trump's executive order, dubbed a "travel ban" against 7 Muslim-majority countries immediately after its announcement.
A George Washington student races during swimming and diving's first dual meet of the year at Howard on October 14, 2017.
GWU freshman Nathaniel Hayward swims freestyle during a meet with Howard University on January 12, 2018.
Liam Brown, 8, poses for a portrait, giving a smile despite waiting for the Macgungie Pool to re-open after thunder claps threatened to put an early end to a warm summer afternoon on July 16, 2018 in Macgungie, Pa.
A father buys his son a soda during a Monday night baseball game, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs against the Buffalo Bisons, at the Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pa. on June 11, 2018.
Melania Trump stands behind the presidential podium after President Donald Trump dismounted the stage during the annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Washington D.C. on Nov. 30, 2017.
The sun rises over the Karl Stirner Arts Trail that spirals along the Delaware River in Easton, Pa. on June 18, 2018.
Gerri Austin, 63, has recently found herself to be the sole caretaker of her ailing husband and unruly 12-acre property in rural South Carolina. A task she once enjoyed, Gerri has found groundskeeping more difficult without her husband of fifty-five years by her side.
A self-proclaimed Nazi pauses between physical fights during violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017. The "Unite the Right" rally, intended to protest the removal of a Confederate statue, gathered hundreds of white nationalists and counter-protesters that faced off -- people threw punches, sprayed tear gas, tossed smoke bombs, and hurled water bottles as weapons.
Double exposure portraits.
An employee checks the mechanical functions of a ride before its debut tomorrow. The Schnecksville Fair will open tomorrow, June 19, 2018, and will feature agricultural and livestock exhibitions, rides, and rows of food stalls.
As I strive to develop a longform narrative on particular characters, here are portraits of residents who have lived at Joseph’s House currently or in the past 5 years.Mr. Earl sits on the couch at Joseph’s House on October 3, 2018, having relapsed the day before, and uncertain about his fate at Joseph’s House. He was just days away from moving out of the House and into a more permanent sober housing facility.
Days before Earl’s public relapse, the woman he loved and his fellow resident at Joseph’s House, Lashawn, died from a drug overdose after being evicted from the House for using. Devastated, the staff worried that Earl would fall into a downward spiral.
Arm chairs sit side-by-side in Joseph’s House living room after a memorial procession for Tasha, a resident who died from AIDS after living in Joseph’s House for three months. Days before she died, Tasha celebrated her daughter’s 19th birthday with the residents and staff at Joseph’s House.
At a community meeting to bid farewell to Tabitha, a nurse at Joseph’s House for over five years, children of a resident at Joseph’s House look at pictures of Tabitha and residents throughout the years .
A resident attends a community meeting in March of 2017. Over 200 residents have come together to fight Bush Companies, organizing protests and writing letters to the D.C. Council. They have partnered with D.C. Housing Counseling Services to argue in court that Bush Companies has not given them a fair eviction settlement. They have won in two separate trials.
With a mission around dignity in death, Joseph’s House houses many residents who are getting better under the diligent care of the nurses, staff, and volunteer and their fellow neighbors.Antoine Smith, 43, sits on the front porch at Joseph’s House, where residents are known to gather, chain smoking and shooting the breeze.
“They said a whole lot of things – we had to move. They wanted the apartment. But I’ve been here too long - 18 years. They sent letters to us. Some of them moved. But we still hanging on," said Ms. Knight, 84, in her home in Museum Square, a rent-controlled apartment complex in downtown Washington, D.C. Museum Square residents were illegally ordered in 2015 to move out of their homes.
Despite the summer heat, Muskah and her siblings have not gone to the pool in their apartment complex. Their father, Abdulbari, does not feel comfortable taking them to the co-ed swimming grounds. Zeya Gul, their mother, was berated and yelled at by a metro attendee once for not understanding the language. Since then, she has struggled to go out on her own.
Muskah Sadaat put on lipstick without telling her mother, convinced she needed it on her first day of first grade. In a few minutes, her mother would scrub it off, scolding in her in Dari, their native dialect in Afghanistan. Her mother doesn't know much English, so Muskah and her older sister translate all of the first-day letters from the school in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Muskah plays with a Barbie donated to her by the synagogue that sponsors her family under their refugee status. 99% of the belongings in the Sadaat home are donated -- their clothes, kitchen utensils, the old box TV in the living room. Picture frames from Afghanistan are prominently displayed on a coffee table in the middle of the room.
Muskah, 8, is reflected in a mirror that she and her sister painted together. It hangs in the bedroom they share on their sixth floor apartment building.
Omran Sadaat, 4, peers into the sea lion exhibit at the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, D.C. He is fascinated with the floating animals, and repeatedly squeals "fish!"
Tom Huff, from the American Chestnut Foundation, carefully plants a chestnut sapling into the freshly tilled soil at the Louise Moore Park in Northampton County on July 19, 2018. Since the early 1900s, the American Chestnut tree species has been plagued by the Chestnut blight. In the Lehigh Valley, none can be found naturally but thousands have been planted by conservationists to bring back the towering trees. The saplings began growing in April, housed in milk cartons before being transferred into the ground near the park's community garden. The planting process is very intentional: the saplings are guarded with wraparound fences to keep voles and chipmunks at bay and covered with landscape fabric to ward off weeds. The saplings will grow three feet a year, and will peak at 110 feet.
A man wears a latex clown mask painted onto his face at the Juggalo March on Washington in D.C. on September 17, 2017. Hundreds of Juggalos, followers of a band called the Insane Clown Posse, gathered to protest the "horrorcore fandom" being labeled as a gang by the FBI.
Omran is fiercely protective of his big sisters, and is weary of the strangers that enter his life regularly - from the volunteers at the synagogue that sponsor him to new teachers at new schools.
Manager-turned-player and senior Jack Granger is thrown back into his team after scoring his first career points and the needed three-pointer to launch the GWU Colonials over the 100-point mark for the first time since 2013.
Bronson Roth, 9, reacts excitedly the morning he and his father, 34, will run the 26.5-mile Marine Corps Marathon on October 22, 2017. Bronson who is nonverbal after traumatic brain injury that occurred when he was born, but he loves running -- the movement and vibrations. He has inspired his entire family to become "marathoners". Brent and Bronson finished the marathon in 5 hours and 18 minutes, competitively qualifying and marking a family milestone.
John Howard, 54, smokes a cigarette while attached to his IV in front of the St. Claire Hospital in Morehead, KY, on October 24, 2017. Howard has emphesyma but still finds himself smoking two packs a day.
Jaden Heckman, 10, crosses the road in her flooded front yard along Route 611. A major water main break closed roads along Route 611 in Easton, Pa. on July 20, 2018, sending a river of debris and mud into the nearby Eddyside Pool.
A growing colt eagerly eats the hay Jim has thrown in, on June 20, 2019. Just one colt was born this breeding season, in April, but not due to lack of effort. Jim had the mare artificially inseminated three times before it took.
Jim carefully dusts off his brown leather shoes, a pair he's worn for daily for almost 8 years, before heading to Walmart in Mexico, Mo. on June 19, 2019.
Jim directs as one of his trainers and a Walmart employee loads a new self-propelled lawnmower to take back to the stables on June 19, 2019. It was his second trip to Walmart that day -- he couldn’t get it going at home so he brought it back to be shown.
A heart-shaped balloon rises above the vigil erected for the 22 people who died in a mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, Texas, pictured on August 5, 2019. The shooter drove hours from Allen, Texas, to the bordertown, and ate inside of the Walmart before returning with a rifle and an AK-47.
Geo Hasem, 8, flies across Trout Creek, clinging to a rope swing in Allentown, Pa. on July 2, 2018. To local residents, it feels like a guessing game: which local pool will be closed today? Families looking to avoid the effects of a citywide shortage of lifeguards — closed pools and expensive fees — are choosing instead to swim in local creeks, despite the city’s warning of drownings last summer.
A child collects two soft-serve cones outside of the J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, Pa. on July 4, 2018. Families gathered to watch fireworks explode across downtown Allentown, which continued despite persistent rain showers.
Ramsey calls his partner Melanie, angry at her because she stormed out of the Valentine’s Day party at Joseph’s House. They got into a fight about Ramsey ignoring her, and she left without saying goodbye. A week later, Melanie would be banned from Joseph’s House after the couple got into a physical altercation.
Ramsey’s room is stripped as he prepares to move out of Joseph’s House and into his first apartment, just a few blocks away. Within days of the move, his room is filled with another resident.
Wayne Ramsey, 67, has been homeless since 1998. He’s slept on the streets, squatted in motels, shacked up in shelters, and slept in abandoned cars in Chevy Chase, Md, where he was born and raised. Wayne has lived with HIV and struggled with addiction for many decades of his life.
Six months ago, Wayne became so ill he could no longer care for himself, and was admitted for care at Joseph’s House, a hospice care facility in Lanier Heights, D.C. In the ten-bedroom house staffed with an intimate crew of caregivers, Wayne has recovered not just his health, but a will to rebuild his life among a community staff and residents at Joseph’s House who love him.
While recovering in the hospital from an infection in early September, a convoy of well-wishers from Joseph’s House went to Georgetown Medical to visit Wayne. “Y’all have come to visit me more than my real family,” he joked from the hospital bed, and then he paused. “Y’all are my real family,” he corrected himself. A murmur of agreement rippled through the room.
Later that month, a memorial was held for Laeshawn and Brandon, two residents at Joseph’s House who had died. Dozens of residents and staff members from Joseph’s House gathered in the living room to light candles and speak of fond memories of the pair. Wayne was somber. When he lit his memorial candle, he reflected on joining the two in death, perhaps soon. A nurse sitting beside him became emotional and whacked him with the Bible she held.
Just two months later on Thanksgiving, Wayne reclined on a couch in the same living room, and called his daughter. “Wish we could spend the day together,” he said, pressing the receiver closer to his face to hear the response. “Maybe next year, we can celebrate Thanksgiving at my house.” In just two months, Joseph’s House had been able to connect Wayne with resources to secure a rent-subsidized apartment in Northwest D.C.
Wayne has found a sense of belonging and purpose at Joseph’s House, and particularly impactful has been his reconnection with God. Almost every Sunday, Wayne and Nicole, a volunteer at Joseph’s House, go to a church service nearby. Wayne is looking for his “forever church” and embedding himself deeper into the community he’s fostered in Lanier Heights. Another highlight, he received the dentures he’s needed for six years, and a shy smile creeps over his face every time someone compliments his new pearly whites.
First Lady Melania Trump stands behind the presidential podium as President Donald Trump speaks during his first National Christmas Tree Lighting in Washington, D.C. on November 30, 2017.
"No KKK! No fascist USA!" a woman screams into a crowd of reciprocal chants during a march in downtown Washington D.C. on Aug. 14, 2017. A few hundred people gathered to protest after white nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Va. and violent protests ensued, resulting in three deaths.
A crowd of violent far-right protestors are forced out out of the Market Street Park, then known as Lee Park, by riot police in Charlottesville, Va. after a state of emergency was declared August 12, 2017 following violent protests during the Unite the Right rally.
While the Garrett-Harrison Stadium broadcasted reminders to wear masks and social distance, clumps of people still gathered in the stands during Central Highs football game against the Hoover High Buccaneers on August 21, 2020, in Phenix City, Ala.
Ellie Chardos, 9, through the window of her home in Columbus, Ga. on Nov. 2, 2021. She’s left her home less than a dozen times since the pandemic began, her parents said, because she is high-risk due to pre-existing medical conditions.
A young girl takes a running leap into a mud pit, while tumbling through the 2019 Mighty Mud Mania obstacle course in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 8, 2019.
Players compete for the ball while the sun sets on June 21, 2018 during the opening night of the Cedar Beach Basketball Showcase at Allentown's Cedar Beach, Pa.
A man waits with his granddaughters for nearly two hours outside of the African-American History Museum on Sept. 26, 2016. The landmark museum is the first Smithsonian to honor African-American culture.
Superintendent Randy Wilkes greets students, reminding them masks go over their nose and to socially distance at Central High School in Phenix City, Al, on August 18, 2020. It was the first day back to school since mid-March.
Julia Whitmore poses for a portrait at her home in Warm Springs, Ga. on Oct. 27, 2020. She has a 20-foot sign in her yard that spells BLACK LIVES MATTER, flanked by a Biden sign. Next to it? A Trump sign placed by her mother who lives in the RV next to her home.
Columbus District Attorney Mark Jones stands trial for felony destruction of property after filming a campaign video featuring a car doing doughnuts in a city parking lot on Sept. 13, 2021, in Columbus, Ga.
Great Mills High School students traveled from Lexington Park, Md. to rally at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018. Three days before the rally, one student shot and killed another student, Jarlynn Willey. She died as a result of the March 20 shooting at Great Mills. “We are marching for Jaelynn — for our friends and for ourselves. Enough is enough,” said Varshangi Patel, 16.
Ronell Martin poses for a portrait at his home in Warm Springs, Ga. on Oct. 27, 2020. Martin has a Trump sign in his yard, but his girlfriend’s and he said he will vote for Biden on Nov. 3.
GW's senior Cami Drouin-Allaire performs on March 4, 2018, in the Smith Center at GWU. Drouin-Allaire had a career meet, improving her personal all-around score for the third meet in a row with a conference-high 39.600.
At the wreckage where Heather Heyer died, police sift through evidence 30 minutes after a car ran into a crowd of counter-protestors demonstrating after the "Unite the Right" rally.
Senior guard Yuta Watanabe dunks against opposing defenders during a men's basketball game between GW and VCU on February 17, 2018.
TCU wide receiver Savion Williams catches a pass and scores a touchdown on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at the Gerald Ford Stadium in the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
National Guard troops dispatched to work a mass vaccination site in Columbus, Ga. on March 17, 2021. A thousand shots were administered to residents in the first two days.
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