Deb Dahl fixes her daughter Eve's hair before Dance Mobility's Adapted Ballroom Dance Competition in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. in July, 2022. 📸 NPR
Mari Copeny, AKA "Little Miss Flint" Teen Vogue, 2024
Natalie Achonwa, a former WNBA player and four-time Olympian with Canada’s national team.
Protestors in June, 2020 in Southwest Detroit, Michigan. 📸 Personal Work
Dundee High School in July, 2020. 📸 The New York Times
Sydney G. James, a Detroit artist is renowned for her vibrant murals celebrating Black Detroiters 📸 AFAR
Head Coach Corrinne Tarver hugs Alyssa Wiggins after her successful beam routine in Ann Arbor, Michigan 2023. Fisk University is the first and only historically Black university to have an official gymnastics team. 📸 Andscape
Amid growing concerns about access to contraception under the Trump administration, Michigan Representative Laurie Pohutsky, chose voluntary sterilization. Since sharing her story publicly, she’s faced significant backlash, including death threats. 📸 Telegraph UK
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, holds newborn baby Rowan, who was in for a wellness checkup with his 19-year-old mom, Hailey Toporek, and her mother, Heather, at the Hurley Children’s Clinic in Flint. Hailey will be one of the first recipients of Flint’s new cash transfer program, Rx Kids, which starts during pregnancy. 📸 NPR
Sky Covington's "Satin Doll Revue," at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit, Mich. 📸 NPR
Don Tadgerson, Joel Cameron and Aaron Lothrop pull in one of the fishing nets on Lake Superior.The 70 year-old Line 5 pipeline pushes a million gallons of oil each hour through the meeting point of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan a combined system that forms the largest lake in the world. 📸 The Guardian
Nicole Filippone,39, is autistic, and she and her three all have sensory processing difficulties which can make outings like grocery shopping a challenge due to the various triggers that can affect each of them differently. 📸 Washington Post
Cliff Douglas, a longtime anti-smoking warrior and president and CEO of the newly named Global Action to End Smoking, at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. 📸 STAT News
People dance to Afrobeats, soca and dancehall music during a Jerk X Jollof cultural event in Detroit, Michigan 2022. 📸 The Atlantic
Hsiu-Hui Tseng, seamstress and mother of Olympic figure skater, Karen Chen. 📸 The New York Times
Political signs in Hillsdale, a small Michigan town in October, 2024.
Despite a 2021 GOP-led Michigan Senate probe finding no election fraud, almost every person in America First, a far-right Republican group, said they don’t trust this year’s vote will be fair and almost all still believe the last election was stolen. 📸 NPR
Election Day in Detroit, 2024. 📸 New York Times
Owner of Live, Cycle, Delight Amina Daniels in Detroit. 📸 Crain's Detroit Business Magazine
Protestors in Detroit, Michigan in June 2020. 📸 Reuters
Cynthia Williams 📸 Ford Motor Company
Cheryl Angelelli, a Paralympic medalist and her dance partner Tamerlan Gadirov, compete in the Dance Mobility's Adapted Ballroom Dance Competition the first ballroom dance competition in the U.S. for those who use a wheelchair or prosthetic limbs in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 📸 NPR
Red Rose Florist shop owners Deborah Nelson, 58, and Stan Nelson, 59, in Detroit, Michigan. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Key'Maura Lewis, 15, and her grandmother Barbara Gilleylen, 59, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 📸 The New York Times
Melissa Dittmer, head of place for Michigan Central the historic former main intercity passenger rail station in Detroit. 📸 Crain's Detroit
Robert Julian-Borchak Williams in June, 2020. 📸 The New York Times
NYC 2019. 📸 Personal Work
Representative Rashida Tlaib in July, 2020. 📸 The New York Times
Juniors, Anja Jacobson, Lana Heaney and Dash Ankers embrace outside of Berkey Hall at Michigan State University. The three juniors lost friends in the shooting on Feb. 13, 2023. “I’m still in shock and a bit of denial” said Jacobson. 📸 NBC News
Amber, 2022. 📸 Personal Work
Senator Kamala Harris makes an afternoon stop in Southfield, Michigan on November 3, 2020. 📸 @nytimes
Damarqio Williams, 28, CEO of Detroit Father and his daughter, Jenesis for Crain’s Detroit Business’ 20 in Their 20’s
Damarqio Williams, 28, CEO of Detroit Father and his daughter, Jenesis. 📸 Crain’s Detroit Business’ 20 in Their 20’s
Kemi Dauda 📸 Vice+ Lenovo's New Realities Campaign
Teenagers listen to instructions before starting work on a huge street mural reading "Power to the People" in June, 2020. 📸 The New York Times
Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance ceremony South Carolina. 📸 The Post and Courier
Michael Stone, 27, in Detroit, Michigan. 📸 NBC News
A young boxer practices at the Downtown Detroit Boxing Gym, 2019. 📸 Crain's Detroit
A mural in progress in Detroit, Michigan. 📸 The New York Times
Absentee ballot sorting in September, 2020. 📸 The New York Times
Sebastian Jackson, owner of The Social Club Grooming Co.in Detroit, Michigan. 📸 Bloomberg
Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan in July, 2020. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Dundee High School in July, 2020. 📸 The New York Times
A General Motors plant, began producing face masks in response to the coronavirus pandemic in July, 2020. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Andi Owen, CEO of Herman Miller at home with her dog Finn in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Brian Pridgeon, 39, touches the nose of a pig at his hog farm in Montgomery, Mich. Pridgeon is a seventh-generation pig farmer that markets 70,000 pigs annually in addition to growing corn, soybeans and wheat with his brother, dad and uncle. 📸 The Wall Street Journal
Sonia Brown, aka 'Auntie Na,' hands out fruit cups and cookies to neighborhood children. She's purchased many of the homes and vacant lots on her block in Detroit, Michigan where she's lived since childhood, to turn them into social services like a free health clinic and community gardens. 📸 The Globe and Mail
Independence Township resident Dawn Jaggers is embraced by her husband Rick during Michigan Congressional candidate Elissa Slotkin's watch party on Nov. 6, 2018 at the Deer Lake Athletic Club in Clarkston. "We were with Elissa from the very beginning and worked for this moment and it actually happened," Jaggers said. 📸 The State News
Olympic figure skater Nathan Chen practices with choreographer Shae-Lynn Bourne in June, 2019. 📸 The Post and Courier
Hawlaane Sarr, 13, Maimouna Sarr, 14, and Muhammad Sarr, 11 lie in the grass during the March for Stolen Children on June 14, 2018 outside of the ICE Enforcement & Removal Operations Office in Downtown Detroit. 📸 Personal Work