http://www.ericaslee.com/singles daily 1.0 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710523694119-KVU7A0TK4GXGE70KZBIB/EL_060.JPG Singles Shantel Burno waits with her son, Ryan Broadway, 1, for his haircut at a barbershop on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Grant Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Erica Lee for The Wall Street Journal) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710523694119-KVU7A0TK4GXGE70KZBIB/EL_060.JPG Singles Shantel Burno waits with her son, Ryan Broadway, 1, for his haircut at a barbershop on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Grant Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Erica Lee for The Wall Street Journal) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710523695132-MAO3Z5T2A79HSS7C4SN0/EL_052.JPG Singles Luis Brioso, 17, hugs a friend at the intersection where Gomez died. “He was like my big brother,” Brioso said, who says he knew him for three years. Brioso said he would go to the barbershop with Gomez to get their hair cut together. Brioso said his birthday was yesterday, the day Gomez died. Nelson Miranda Gomez, 16, was struck by a tow truck while riding a Lime scooter on the corner of Elizabeth Avenue and South Spring Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey Wednesday evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1417907199409-QE692CH9OIUKTKUEUURV/ey+kameroncopeland+080214+p10.jpg Singles Karon Copeland, 8, plays with a balloon in some space in the living room. Karon's mom is currently in jail and his father acts as caretaker and disciplinarian. The family hopes that the mother, Nicole, will be released from jail soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1417907219489-MM68GDI6U3WSFN2EB7KW/EY+Wagon040814_1.jpg Singles Chris Barlow gives his twin sons, Khrishawn (front) and Khristian, 2, a ride in a wagon as they turn from Moorman Ave NW onto 16th Street NW Tuesday afternoon. Barlow said it was their first time out in the wagon enjoying the weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1444615940977-KH78BWDM8C3GUIR4QSRL/_A3B0771_10.JPG Singles Detroit, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710523705234-E0SZTQD15HDQ8K2WREGX/EL_022.JPG Singles Dinah, James and Ethan at home with their first child in Bergen County, New Jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378606034684-9FM3MJUWVRP41BEI45T2/eyoon_single02fixed.jpg Singles Pastor Dan Peterson of Circle J Cowboy Church baptizes Mike McConnell with help from fellow member Steve Wade in a horse feeding trough filled with water. Peterson leads a congregation at the Kingsport Livestock Auction at 200 North John B. Dennis Highway every Thursday at 7p.m. The unique ministry reaches out to people with a "come as you are" attitude. McConnell is a farmer by trade and found the church after reading a sign posted on the auction door. Before then, McConnell did not attend church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1498947683333-MKGG0T10N7JBWLZGFV4X/ey+blueridgemarathon+042217+p01.jpg Singles Runners in the Foot Levelers Blue Ridge Marathon, half marathon and Anthem Star 10K make their way up J.B. Fish burn Parkway to Mill Mountain on April 22, 2017. According to race organizer, Julia Boas, by Saturday morning the number of entries in this year’s event was more than 2,400, which included a men’s and women’s half-marathon, a men’s and women’s 10K race and a one-mile family run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451774990721-9JBPNUQ4AWIQ68FSMTF3/image-asset.jpeg Singles William Byrd High School students celebrate their win over Blackburg High School after the the first round of the 3A West tournament at William Byrd High School. William Byrd won 67-60. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710523700924-G8P8BV2WYD2TN914W53W/ey+patrickhenrygraduation+060217+p01.jpg Singles A graduated senior rises to spray Silly String at the conclusion of the Patrick Henry High School commencement ceremony at the Berglund Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1395636563555-ZV3DIFNOEN9A5O1Q9BPO/EY+CatShowGallery20140111_0003.JPG Singles Judge Douglas Myers in Ring One takes a look at Purrsia, also known as Purr Bits' Pursian Princess, during the Central Carolina Cat Fanciers and Star City Cat Fanciers CFA Allbreed Cat Show on Saturday. Purrsia is a Brown Mackeral Tabby owned by Jean Aldrich of Mount Airy, N.C., and has been showing her cat since March of last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1437763828957-P5UJ80F4X3DMDBVCDHEC/3Single.jpg Singles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378606032217-132HA242FOR6FTJ4AW2C/6W1X5969.jpg Singles DiMingo Hale of Kingsport, Tenn., kisses his sons Malachi and Micah Hale as his wife Sara snaps a photo while they wait for him to board his plane at Tri-Cities Airport in Blountville, Tenn., on March 31, 2011. Hale returned to Afghanistan to serve his second tour of duty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1498948693411-94ENTQONX38MZSGSRMK0/ey+nationalnightout+080216+p01.JPG Singles Maria Goodman-Osby, 5, center, plays with inflated beach balls along with other community members at Afton Garden Apartments off of Hunt Ave. NW during National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378671349765-NEKX94LDSPM4NKH8ID4P/Yoon_Emotion_01.jpg Singles Misty Way, of Nelsonville, Ohio, takes a drag from her cigarette while waiting on her boyfriend Elmer Kimmey, also of Nelsonville, Ohio and neighbor Joe McKee as they wire shut the hood of her stock car prior to the Marietta Demolition Derby on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. This was Way's first year driving in a demolition derby. "I'm nervous as hell," Way said. She went on to place third. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378606034531-ZXHTR5R5QLSDGKHSJQZ4/Yoon_080925_1_077.jpg Singles Kimmie Rulo leans on her dad, Charles, as they wake up in their living room together. The family of five lived in a cramped single-wide trailer. Charles was the sole financial provider trying to provide for his three children and wife, Angie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378605545438-12VIRC4UZRQ5HPOS6LMQ/_MG_7749.jpg Singles 2011 outgoing queen Jordan Johnston and second attendant Blaire Warner take in their last parade during Millersport's Sweet Corn Festival in Ohio late August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1498948227157-UDZL1MAVFQX1ZL8ELD4L/ey+mikealsardarov+081816+p02.jpg Singles Family members say goodbye to Mikeal Sardarov, who stood next to his defense attorney Michael Hartley at the conclusion of his bond hearing Thursday morning, Aug. 18, 2016. Sardarov was denied bond. A judge denied bond Thursday for a Roanoke man charged last month in the death of an infant, but he also agreed to review the matter again, once additional information is available. Mikeal Rafayel Sardarov, 22, is accused of killing Liam Fink, his girlfriend’s 5-month-old nephew, who died March 1 of blunt force trauma. Police have said the injuries occurred two days earlier, while Sardarov was baby-sitting the boy at a home on Dona Drive. On July 5, Sardarov was indicted on charges of murder, child abuse and child neglect. He turned himself in the next day and has been jailed ever since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1417907216921-NLA2MSFFQI1J2XA5LU38/EY+TwoAlarmFire010714_3.jpg Singles Gladis Perez and her husband Eulogio Hernandez watch as a house they were in the process of renovating for their daughter is consumed by fire. A two alarm fire broke out at 918 Bullitt Avenue SE in Roanoke Tuesday evening, January 7, 2014. According to the homeowner Eulogio Hernandez, nobody was home at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710523705029-B0V9ZT5V1DTIIC8XBV4M/image-asset-12.jpg Singles Kameron's younger brother, Karon, 8, plays with a balloon in the front entry way of the house. Kameron and her siblings spend a lot of time together, so moments of quiet are few and far between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1521910525197-TUAMKA2ZEQ66X1M5PDIO/ey+marchsnow+031218+p015.jpg Singles A flock of birds fly across the Old Poage Farm off of Bent Mountain Road in Roanoke County with the backdrop of snow covered trees seen Monday afternoon, Mar. 12, 2018. http://www.ericaslee.com/detroit daily 0.75 2019-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1384316773454-PDA53OUNIMQLNNIC8P6L/detroit-photos-erica-yoon-011.JPG Detroit's Evolution A bridal party walks across 14th Street between Dalzelle Street and Michigan Avenue after a photo shoot inside the burned house on the left in downtown Detroit across from the historical Michigan Central Train Station. The two houses were part of a project called Imagination Station, an effort to place art in unoccupied spaces. Late last June the house on the left, named Lefty, caught fire and spread to the second house, Righty. This was not the first time the houses caught fire. "...if you live in this stuff 24/7, it’s not cute. And it’s not art. It’s just not art. So if you want to make it art, you know for a minute, that’s fine. But let’s not keep it at that state. Because you trying to make it into something that’s pretty. It’s not pretty. Because we live here.” - Nefertiti Harris, owner of Nefertiti Salon in Detroit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1384316773454-PDA53OUNIMQLNNIC8P6L/detroit-photos-erica-yoon-011.JPG Detroit's Evolution A bridal party walks across 14th Street between Dalzelle Street and Michigan Avenue after a photo shoot inside the burned house on the left in downtown Detroit across from the historical Michigan Central Train Station. The two houses were part of a project called Imagination Station, an effort to place art in unoccupied spaces. Late last June the house on the left, named Lefty, caught fire and spread to the second house, Righty. This was not the first time the houses caught fire. "...if you live in this stuff 24/7, it’s not cute. And it’s not art. It’s just not art. So if you want to make it art, you know for a minute, that’s fine. But let’s not keep it at that state. Because you trying to make it into something that’s pretty. It’s not pretty. Because we live here.” - Nefertiti Harris, owner of Nefertiti Salon in Detroit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451771654111-6SY9O5LWW0YUN3OGT9Z9/image-asset.jpeg Detroit's Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043373746-QNDCPYEDOA332IH0OE7J/Yoon_D04.jpg Detroit's Evolution Destiny Marshall picks sunflower seeds at D-Town Farm during a tour of the 7-acre locale in Detroit. D-Town Farm is part of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and began in 2006. It has been at its present location on the west side of Detroit for six years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043333359-G84FSCICLYW1QBKLMC13/_A3B3031.jpg Detroit's Evolution Diontae Matthews, a Citizen Forester apprentice (fifth right), listens to Chris Hardy (center), a Citizen Forester with the Greening of Detroit, along with several other volunteers, on how to properly plant a tree in the Cody Rouge South neighborhood of Detroit during a tree planting event. The volunteers planted mostly Maple and Oak trees, which will grown to be large shade trees. The non-profit was aiming to plant 1,100 trees by Thanksgiving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043349049-YAAXPYJZ9OD9X8CAER06/EYOON_04sized.jpg Detroit's Evolution Dana Applebaum, center, farm educator at Catherine Ferguson Academy, pauses as Kanisha Miller touches Shantanique Dixson's belly during a farmers market at the school. CFA has been open since 1986 and is designed for young mothers and expecting mothers trying to finish high school in Detroit. The school has since closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1551992034853-5PS1HB8MIW0K07KOLTHQ/Erica_Yoon_Detroit_005.JPG Detroit's Evolution Students in the Farming Mothers Club pick the last of the harvest in the two-and-a-half acre lot behind Catherine Ferguson Academy, which houses a working farm, complete with goats, chickens, sometimes ducks, rabbits and a horse. The agriculture curriculum began from an idea by former teacher and urban farmer Paul Weertz, who taught at the school for more than twenty years. The school has since closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043371862-OMAQEVOPT99M975098BI/Yoon_D03.jpg Detroit's Evolution Ajhane Thomas, 18, a student at Catherine Ferguson Academy, walks back to the school barn as Jon Miller of Detroit carefully leads his draft horses, Tess and Tara, around the urban farm for the first time at the school. Miller and his horses plowed through garlic plots on harvest day at the school. Miller hopes that the horses can stable closer to the city to do farm chores and provide educational outings in the city on a regular basis. Catherine Ferguson Academy is a school devoted for young mothers and mothers-to-be in Detroit. Farming Mothers was a club that was established to expose students to agricultural business. There were 200 students enrolled in the school at the time. CFA eventually closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043364609-I5FDRRQQSGWAZVZ39QMB/EYOON_08.jpg Detroit's Evolution Occupy Detroit activists stand outside of 1515 Broadway Cafe on the one-year anniversary of the movement as a People Mover passes through its route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043316664-R2EMKMQBH9ALFXIMXZSM/_A3B0013toned.jpg Detroit's Evolution Members of the community, including the homeless and the church janitor (center), gather in front of Spirit of Hope church on a Saturday afternoon during the soup kitchen time, where free handouts of socks and Bibles were distributed.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043333346-OMFY318QNDQBW7ZA7M3M/_A3B9990.jpg Detroit's Evolution Homeless men and women form a line to wait for the soup kitchen at Spirit of Hope church in North Corktown to open on a Saturday afternoon. North Corktown is the oldest neighborhood in Detroit, once settled by Irish immigrants. The church was known as a place of refuge for many seeking spiritual sustenance, and continues to fulfill that role today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043381051-93XU2FZF32LMRG3QSR9Q/Yoon_D10.jpg Detroit's Evolution Susan Sunshine, left, an Occupy Detroit activist also known as The Earth Poet, talks to local resident Jerry Peterson while he picks tomatoes out of an urban garden at Spirit of Hope in North Corktown. Other community members forage in the background during a work day open to the community at the farm. The farm has been open since 2007 and was started by Kate Devlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377046153063-5Z3QW7ZU7IXY8D0XL9X2/_A3B3270.jpg Detroit's Evolution Kadiri Sennefer, a native of Detroit, is a farm manager at D-Town Farms. Sennefer has been with the farm since it relocated to West Outer Drive in Detroit in 2008. Sennefer is part of the youth movement within Detroit. He teaches children who visit the farm and creates music about food justice and urban agriculture. "It's given my life purpose. Like, I didn't feel like my life had purpose prior to. It's a wonderful cause to work for. I could see the benefits within my personal life, having access to healthier foods…I try to share that with my friends and family. People respect what I'm doing. What we're doing. It's dynamic," he said. Sennefer is grateful for Malik Yakini, the founder and executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, crediting him for providing opportunities and being an example of self-determination in the city. Sennefer passed away November 2, 2018 from a battle with lung cancer at 40 years of age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043338456-J9VL11D35CBDLQZ1UQED/EYOON_01toned.jpg Detroit's Evolution Kadiri Sennefer, also known as S.I.R.I.U.S., and Bryce Anderson-Small, also known as BRYCE, rap together on stage at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit during a celebration of urban gardening and farming through art and performance. Sennefer works on an urban farm in Detroit and Anderson-Small helps mentor youth through media literacy. "The D, Detroit, I think is synonymous with determination because the people here are determined. We don't have it easy. Yet we continue to push forward…in the midst of what everything that they're saying about Detroit, there's prosperity and abundance and a great deal of it flowing through Detroit. You can see it in the art, you can see it in the agriculture, you can see it in the people thriving. It's a dynamic and wonderful time in Detroit at this moment. At the same time there are people hurting. But I think that these conditions are what makes it so outstanding," Sennefer said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043385233-Z9IMO9OMMMOJH3V4NX1Q/Yoon_D13.jpg Detroit's Evolution Bryce Anderson-Small, a former record executive, now devotes his time to youth media literacy with his company, Detroit Recordings. He also raps with Kadiri Sennefer, a farm manager at D-Town Farms. Here, Anderson-Small sits outside the Artist's Village, a space for performers to rehearse and convene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043344405-3O75RJTYAZQQ02LZNJLG/EYOON_02toned.jpg Detroit's Evolution Mars Psymons, center, cuts and collects wood found on a dead-end street with fellow Golden Gate residents so they can use it for fire. Psymons created the Golden Gate community, an eleven house community that functions as a cohesive group, promoting self-sustainability, urban agriculture and an alternative way of life. All of the residents are essentially squatting in unoccupied homes but have indicated interest in eventually purchasing the property. Psymons along with Tyler Brazley, Shane Clark and Marshall Stephens drive around their neighborhood to scour any dead tree limbs that they can cut with a chainsaw for firewood. Some are found near a dead end street, others are found on overgrown lots in front of abandoned homes. By the time they return, the bed of the pick-up truck is brimming with freshly cut logs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378601768351-9PYIFMK48O0ABI5ARKHB/_A3B2662.jpg Detroit's Evolution Marshall Stephens, 27, shares a meal with a neighbor in the Golden Gate Community collective of Detroit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1551992027979-UG0RMJ2KZQ4EV4LVQ6C8/Erica_Yoon_Detroit_013.JPG Detroit's Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1551992091851-T7DRXKRINK1R9Y90IO8X/Erica_Yoon_Detroit_014.JPG Detroit's Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043345824-VNIUC2IASS0ZRGDLYIT6/EYOON_03sized.jpg Detroit's Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1377043319799-QTG0A5I5247XMOGP6RL9/_A3B1672toned.jpg Detroit's Evolution A celebration of women in hip-hop at The Old Miami in Detroit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1551992392220-LBNR7OMJFMJN4GBAT6NJ/Erica_Yoon_Detroit_020.JPG Detroit's Evolution The Chimera by Detroit graffiti artist Kobie Solomon is an 8,750 square foot spray-painted mural on the westward wall of Building #2 at the Russell Industrial Complex. The mural can be seen by motorists going in both directions on Interstate 75. It is the largest spray-can art mural in the state of Michigan. Begun in 2009, Solomon said in 2012 it was yet to be finished due to funding. This mural was shot with a long exposure at night. http://www.ericaslee.com/waiting-for-care daily 0.75 2013-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758688171-6R4YJVVN28OHLOS72Z3W/6W1X5821.JPG Waiting for Care Already at about 6a.m. cars are lined up and waiting for miles where they can check-in at the entrance of the Virginia-Kentucky Fairgrounds in Wise, VA. For the last ten years, thousands of people in need in Appalachia and the surrounding areas have woken up in the middle of the night to stand in line and receive basic health care unaffordable to them. This year, about 2,347 people flocked to Remote Area Medical Health Expedition (RAM) in Wise, VA at the Wise County Fairgrounds. Founded in 1985 by Stan Brock, RAM is a free clinic for those in need of basic health care in remote areas. The health expedition in Wise is the largest free health care clinic in the United States. The most needs in rural Appalachia are dental and vision care and many cannot afford a basic examination due to the lack of insurance or being underinsured. Many will arrive the day before to receive a number in line for when the gates open at 6a.m. Some drive for hours, some walk down the street to stand in line. For most, this will be there one chance to be seen by a health professional. According to their website, last year RAM served nearly 5,800 patient encounters that worth more than $1.9 million dollars. 1800 volunteers and more than 800 health professionals participated in the three day clinic.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758688171-6R4YJVVN28OHLOS72Z3W/6W1X5821.JPG Waiting for Care Already at about 6a.m. cars are lined up and waiting for miles where they can check-in at the entrance of the Virginia-Kentucky Fairgrounds in Wise, VA. For the last ten years, thousands of people in need in Appalachia and the surrounding areas have woken up in the middle of the night to stand in line and receive basic health care unaffordable to them. This year, about 2,347 people flocked to Remote Area Medical Health Expedition (RAM) in Wise, VA at the Wise County Fairgrounds. Founded in 1985 by Stan Brock, RAM is a free clinic for those in need of basic health care in remote areas. The health expedition in Wise is the largest free health care clinic in the United States. The most needs in rural Appalachia are dental and vision care and many cannot afford a basic examination due to the lack of insurance or being underinsured. Many will arrive the day before to receive a number in line for when the gates open at 6a.m. Some drive for hours, some walk down the street to stand in line. For most, this will be there one chance to be seen by a health professional. According to their website, last year RAM served nearly 5,800 patient encounters that worth more than $1.9 million dollars. 1800 volunteers and more than 800 health professionals participated in the three day clinic.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378831611328-RYA7CDL9XY26YINNPBIF/5.jpg Waiting for Care Judy Little and her son Jimmy Little of Castlewood, VA try to get some sleep after arriving at the fairgrounds at 3.a.m. Friday morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1437763991830-DTT5DWOMWLF8ZX5NNRK8/08.jpg Waiting for Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378831716081-UJXM8QL1DCMR7C4E5PTR/9.JPG Waiting for Care Waiting for their number to be called outside the gates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758727664-701D4OUKI673GB0XTQZ5/IMG_1733.JPG Waiting for Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758696681-SU4DPGITC7TMMXUFJBN2/191.jpg Waiting for Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758704179-6L8FZNPIRC19S24PTJH1/IMG_1998.JPG Waiting for Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378827590734-TCPIKVHW65T2TGO4JN8A/6W1X9206.JPG Waiting for Care https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378868069407-PQQGBLY1E6HVPWVYJ948/18.jpg Waiting for Care Steve Bevins of Wise, Va., sits in the medical clinic with his children Canaan and Hailey as VCU second year medical student Emily Dunston discusses Bevins' symptoms.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758682520-MZBNC1HX9DQR1B8B4135/6W1X6060.JPG Waiting for Care Dr. Vincent Voci removes a small ball-sized cyst growing under Stephen Wright's scalp with medical assistance from Tammy Love. Wright, of Coeburn, VA, says he finally decided to come to RAM for the first time after girlfriend Tasha Mullins insisted that he check the bump on his head. Wright had the cyst for over twenty years and decided to take advantage of RAM because he does not have insurance where he works. If he had to pay for the surgery, Wrights says doctors estimated that it would cost $3-4,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758698898-NZ8JU45RUR5KEZ0JT8ST/EY_RAM07.jpg Waiting for Care Joyce Hamilton, 58, of Big Stone Gap, VA hides underneath her umbrella while waiting to receive health services. Hamilton says this was her second time at the clinic and was expected to receive her dentures and get an eye exam that day. "If you don't have insurance, it's worth the wait," she said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378758722651-J5WY5N84PV624GSDQWSH/ramfriday5.jpg Waiting for Care http://www.ericaslee.com/cheshire-ohio daily 0.75 2015-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765718898-XF2MOUTY6TADREUJNJ2G/1.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765718898-XF2MOUTY6TADREUJNJ2G/1.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765904454-2V660C718VROZZR0H0DA/14.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765797868-6EAN0MW9SDX2UHM5P3L2/6.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765713673-RCWYH2KHC7H8G9T6W6FT/2.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765815502-9O2OBS7KA0F4967QKVVT/8.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765775938-JAMFCZH060S6VQTK0UY3/5.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765741124-XYD31GWH56ACARHV3W8N/4.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765850956-HGT4JZBRSED4E7QP7RZP/10.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765807241-YUK1M833R1V2UZW486TA/7.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765823741-02K6RGW4VR39A0RQOVTM/9.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765846501-VMZ08RF538BNDJD19WL1/11.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765870488-QNZPCJ38QRBKNIKJ8ZOZ/12.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765888833-KITX82TWKD5XP75LNPIF/13.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765925278-8J4SDOPPXDHZR1KCCHN0/15.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765938099-GRR72ZPAPH5QPUIOJTO6/16.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765930075-YBWBRIXCN4LTVAJG8I5N/Essay05021713.jpg Cheshire, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378765937572-N83GW41K80CUFG3CIBC4/Yoon12.jpg Cheshire, Ohio http://www.ericaslee.com/portraits daily 0.75 2024-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915537463-QAFOKN9QZXB18T7MEAST/Noah_083.JPG Portraits Noah Johnson, a graduating senior in high school, in the Bronx. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915537463-QAFOKN9QZXB18T7MEAST/Noah_083.JPG Portraits Noah Johnson, a graduating senior in high school, in the Bronx. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579281611252-7EEX1SSZCGCOYBNX82BP/Lauren_Kanarek_01.JPG Portraits Lauren Kanarek survived after being shot multiple times at a riding stable in Long Valley, N.J. in August 2019. Michael Barisone, the Olympic dressage riding coach and owner of the farm, was charged with two counts of attempted murder. Kanarek stands for a portrait on Sept. 27, 2019 outside her attorney’s offices in Roseland, NJ. (Erica Seryhm Lee for The New York Times) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915537981-7NSXDOP5YHDDGT2QJHQ4/_A3B0084.jpg Portraits DanaRose and Evan at Ocean Grove Beach, New Jersey, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915538946-JEOKWFZBV6IAUIT1CP89/Latinas_Erica_Lee_009.JPG Portraits Farida Mercedes of Fairlawn, New Jersey, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Mercedes left her job as an assistant VP of HR at L’Oreal in August after 17 years. “When I do go back, it won’t be at the same capacity when I left,” Mercedes say of when she returns back to work. (Erica Lee for NPR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579282375820-NTDFFH9UX4RDECQ5ACN9/EL_NYSOPRANOS_001.JPG Portraits Kathrine Narducci, who plays Charmaine Bucco in The Sopranos, sits with SopranosCon organizer Michael Mota in the infamous booth where the final episode of the show was filmed at Holsten’s in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019. Cast members from the HBO television show series will be in attendance this weekend at the first SopranosCon from Nov. 23-24, 2019 at Meadowlands Expo in Secaucus, New Jersey. Devoted fans will be able to enjoy all things Sopranos and celebrate as the show turns 20 this year. CREDIT: Erica Seryhm Lee for The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915540224-CZMRGP2OH07FFYGRGBCF/EL_041.JPG Portraits Young Ho Lee, a portrait made at NOAH Day Care Center in New Jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1547586456293-DG4B8ZUW3BEXFVVOQ6GP/EY+MaxPoff042114_2.jpg Portraits Max Poff's parents, David and Dianna, sit in Max's untouched bedroom. 16-year-old Max committed suicide, shooting himself in the head with his father's pistol, after his parents say was bullying he received from classmates at Wiliam Byrd High Scool. David Poff says that he still opens the blinds in his room every day, where an American flag hangs on his wall. Max wanted to be a Marine. According to a Youth Risk Behavior Survey, half of all Roanoke County school kids reported being bullied in 2012 — 12.7 percent of those surveyed said it happened to them daily. The rate for attempted suicide among the high school teens was 11.4 percent, almost double the national average. And an astonishing one in four reported feeling sad or hopeless every day for more than two weeks at a time — the clinical definition of depressed. And yet, both school and police officials initially asserted that bullying had nothing to do with Max Poff’s suicide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709917537263-WEL82H6I8C637D407N6V/ey%2Bronford%2B100214%2Bp01A.jpg Portraits East Montgomery High School senior receiver Ron Ford sits for a portrait during practice after school on Oct. 1, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378677166248-UQTU8E7TL91BJFI4NFH4/2.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378828398143-41YYS1ZMHAK4QGWKFIJK/_MG_8609.jpg Portraits Teddy sits with his dogs Tater and Tootsie in New Matamoras, OH on his front porch selling tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378605156280-AQLYPDOZGFW8IO6UUS83/_MG_20441.jpg Portraits Lawanda and Tony, neighbors, together since January in Roanoke, VA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1444605724897-XDAPKBJOIJXV28S5K3EB/ey+hollinsminna+052015+p011.jpg Portraits Mennatallah AlBarqi graduated from Hollins University with an undergraduate degree in biology. AlBarqi is from the Gaza Strip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1444605739047-VUVCF9KBG1OSNXBOJP8B/Singles15.jpg Portraits Dorothy Owsley stands at the front door of the transitional home that she will run on Patterson Avenue SW on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. The home is set to open on Feb. 2 and will serve eight women being released from prison looking for a safe environment to transition back into society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915544023-YYSPD9VYNFPFIAWGAWJW/NancyFire_001.JPG Portraits Nancy Fire, interior designer for Studio NYC Design, sips tea in the morning on her apartment balcony in the city. “How Nancy Fire, Interior Designer, Spends Her Sundays,” (Erica Lee for the New York Times) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1547590084727-V37Y2G6LOL4WKCWZRR2X/EYOON01.jpg Portraits Zoo Kue, 18, waits backstage as her mother, Mao Vang, dresses her. Zoo's sister, Maijer, 23, stands by her side prior to the Hmong New Year's Festival in Fraser, Mich. The mom and sisters are from Florida and came to support the Hmong community and visit their relatives in Roosevelt, Mich. Michigan has one of the larger Hmong populations in the U.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1444605668750-Z3MZ3TZUSOKLLF61EIH6/ey+eternalsummers+052815+p02.jpg Portraits Eternal Summers is a Roanoke-based indie rock band who has received attention from Rolling Stone Magazine and The New York Times. The members are Nicole Yun, Daniel Cundiff, center, and Jonathan Woods, right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709918202667-ZURV0BSQH6JHMB1R243C/EL_092.JPG Portraits Broadcast journalist Joan Lunden sits for a portrait in her home. For almost two decades, Lunden co-hosted Good Morning America. “Joan Lunden’s Happiness Plan,” Erica Lee for Guideposts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709918602540-G8E46HGDQVOYQFXFZUWU/Juleyka_Alicia_09.JPG Portraits Juleyka Lantigua, founder and CEO of LWC Studios, a digital media studio with programming in the social justice arena. She created and executive produces 70 Million, the first open-source solutions journalism podcast chronicling how locals are tackling jail reform around the country. (For LWC Studios) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915547243-KZ04LOXNZPS5LJJQMKYH/Erica_Lee_Portraits_013.JPG Portraits Artist Steve Okerman, 73, sits in his living room with his cat Kiwi and several of the pieces he has created. Okerman was once a locomotive engineer for 34 years. "Art has always been in me," he said. He found many parts of his art pieces while working on the railroad and now will find parts at Goodwill stores. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915548316-B9P0S2TGKC9VGBHL8IPL/Latinas_Erica_Lee_028.JPG Portraits Sabrina Castillo of Union City, New Jersey, used to commute into Manhattan for her full-time job as director of partnerships and outreach for the NYC Campaign Finance Board. “I took the pandemic as a time to reflect,” Castillo said. “In the end, something has to give.” Castillo said it was a collaborative exit from the job where she says she professionally grew up. During her eight years at the job, her two children Lorenzo and Camila were born. Castillo is taking the time to think about what her next professional move is. (Erica Lee for NPR) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378829566376-XZWWLCTBENZWD1IAHC0W/AndrewNash.jpg Portraits Andrew Nash in Pomeroy, Ohio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915549589-YBEUS5689PBN938BH31R/Yoon_Singles17.jpg Portraits R. Carr Boyd, Jr., Botetourt County's first director of emergency services, stands for a portrait infront of the Fincastle Volunteer Fire Department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915550142-51P4EZ0PI9IQWI6WMEDM/Erica_Lee_Portraits_023.JPG Portraits From left to right: Quadruplets Meredith, Jessica, Mackenzie and Stephanie Jackson, 21, are seniors about to graduate from Hollins University. They would make a point to meet for lunch or dinner at the school's cafeteria to catch up on their daily life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915550913-3U5N8266I8E6AL2886SF/AppleNY_Yoon017.jpg Portraits Lance Ulanoff of Long Island tests out the iPad Pro 12.9" after the October 30 event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. (Erica Lee for The New York Times) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915938477-PMK3562H0K6WK0LBOLZU/_A3B7783.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915550938-JDL7SJ7RLYMX1ADDG7MG/Erica_Lee_Portraits_026.JPG Portraits Ginger Gunlock of Waynesville, Ohio, with her cat, Bart, or its registered name, Suavere's Dark Secret of Penobscot, during the Central Carolina Cat Fanciers and Star City Cat Fanciers CFA Allbreed Cat Show at the Holiday Inn in Roanoke on Saturday. Bart is a two year old Black Persian cat. Gunlock has competed in shows for 41 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915552164-YW776XTQFNI1759NWLFN/Erica_Lee_Portraits_004.JPG Portraits Greg Martin, 45, of Roanoke County, left, and Pat Metheny, 35, of Botetourt County, right, stop for a portrait before continuing their climb up Crabtree Falls in Nelson County on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1467504725477-LQC28J8HGN1VY7YLUBR4/Yoon_Singles07.jpg Portraits Logan Honts, 11, is heading to the Pokemon World Championships in Hawaii next month. This will be his second trip. He says the key in a winning strategy is a carefully selected deck of Pokemon cards. Honts and his dad strategize and create a chart listing combinations that they like in a deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915554413-AC4U8VIPOJ1WQTO930VE/Shoba_Panoli_01.jpg Portraits Shoba Panoli. Panoli works for the Treasury Department in New Jersey. She was born and raised in Malaysia and is married to an Indian man. Panoli is ethnically Sri Lankan and Indian and a third generation Malaysian. (Erica Lee for Grounds for Sculpture, Local Voices: Memories, Stories and Portraits exhibit April 23, 2023-January 7, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915554190-95FR2T8CEXD5TDFVHH5M/Erica_Lee_Portraits_018.JPG Portraits Garrett Szydlowski, 25, the founder of Random Ninjaz, dances with sensors on his shoes made by Electroskip during a rehearsal for Cube Fest at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378828328509-2NN2AF8IEU2DA57VD1EZ/Sierra.jpg Portraits Sierra Wright, 7, stands on a skateboard to pose for a portrait as other neighborhood kids continue to skate down Campbell Avenue South East at 17th Street on August 6, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378828281354-XFEATKOBB38YO76KMS9R/_MG_8076.jpg Portraits At the Greek Orthodox Festival in Columbus, OH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915559330-SBLJUI8QMR7EN5Y1IU1Y/_A3B3270.JPG Portraits Kadiri Sennefer, a native of Detroit, is a farm manager at D-Town Farms. Sennefer has been with the farm since it relocated to West Outer Drive in Detroit in 2008. Sennefer is part of the youth movement within Detroit. He teaches children who visit the farm and creates music about food justice and urban agriculture. "It's given my life purpose. Like, I didn't feel like my life had purpose prior to. It's a wonderful cause to work for. I could see the benefits within my personal life, having access to healthier foods…I try to share that with my friends and family. People respect what I'm doing. What we're doing. It's dynamic," he said. Sennefer is grateful for Malik Yakini, the founder and executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, crediting him for providing opportunities and being an example of self-determination in the city. Sennefer passed away November 2, 2018 from a battle with lung cancer at 40 years of age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915558888-FYDDMHOAHUFOA21VP12A/aa.jpg Portraits Appalachian Fair, Gray, Tennessee, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915560040-THPZ18RIBEF25V4QF77U/ey%2Bnorthcrossfootball%2B082114%2Bp01.jpg Portraits Isaiah Harris and Ryan Dent look to lead the North Cross high school football team in their second year after transferring from Salem High School. Both play running back and wide receiver positions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1547587872474-3MPGOE8CBDLXQ0ROJUEO/ey+kellykingery+050317+p04.jpg Portraits Kelly Kingery, 49, of Wirtz poses in his garage on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 where he fixes his race car and collects race memorabilia, including trophies he's won that line the shelves around the garage. On weekends, he saws on the steering wheel of his Late Model Stock race car at Franklin County Speedway and other area short tracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378604780726-WPY59GKEEDN3RSU04JP8/_A3B5436.jpg Portraits Jasmine models at Strouds Run State Park in Athens, OH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915561687-1AP2BYICNORL2337LCAF/NYJERSEYCRIME_EY_04.JPG Portraits When Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop assumed office in July 2013, he inherited an outdated system of fifty low-resolution police surveillance cameras that were poorly placed and slow to send useful imagery. ‘They never seemed to be pointed in the right direction,’ he said. Those cameras weren’t useful in fighting crime, but Mr. Fulop studied them closely and began a rapid expansion of the program that he credits for a dramatic increase in public safety. CREDIT: Erica Yoon for The Wall Street Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915562972-L0BXQP0AARWTPXYJ132M/Erica_Lee_Portraits_021.JPG Portraits David Ramey holds one of his drawings in the works while standing in front of a framed piece that was purchased by the Roanoke Arts Commission, now hanging at City Hall. Hanging on the wall is a colored pencil drawing called "Henry Street" made in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915563406-89MVVZ1Z4W8OQSS8AI5Q/CollegeCredits_EL_007A.JPG Portraits Silver at home with her dog in Middletown, New Jersey. Silver Wolf's five-year journey toward a bachelor's degree has taken her from a small private college to a community college, both in Pennsylvania, and then to the University of Massachusetts Boston. Each time she transferred, she hit the same snag: her first school would not release her transcript because of unpaid bills. "I didn't have all of my fees paid off yet for everything, and it took me a couple of months to actually get into UMass Boston since they had everything they needed except for my actual transcripts,” Wolf said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915564728-EC5MR2ZZLAHINS984SJ2/Erica_Lee_Portraits_008.JPG Portraits Joe Hedrick, owner of Hedrick Exotic Animal Farm out of Hutchinson, Kansas, shows off his camels that will appear in his petting zoo and exhibition at the Salem Fair from June 28 - July 9 at the Salem Civic Center. Hedrick arrived on Sunday and has shown his animals for more than twenty years at the fair. This will be the 30th year of the fair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915565245-FQMEK02LS2C2G1BWHA8Y/_A3B0227.jpg Portraits Joiki Floyd has taught her English class for Weequahic High School remotely from her home in Newark during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915567167-JHRHMMS44VF2L928VYZU/PARENTLOANS_009.JPG Portraits Kate and William Schweizer borrowed roughly $200,000 in Parent Plus loan money to finance two of their daughters’ college education. The amount has since ballooned to roughly $500,000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1378671648251-G7YVCQOKAEQ1GGNRSN4Z/_A3B9958Avery.jpg Portraits Robert Avery of Gadsden, Ala., was 15-years-old when he hitchhiked with two of his close friends to attend the March on Washington and witness Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech" on August 28, 1963. Avery found work with his friends a week before the march, making signs and working in the D.C. field office. At one point, he met Rev. Dr. King and the three had a conversation. Rev. Dr. King asked them many questions but also had some parting words of wisdom. "...Whatever you decide to do in life, just be the best." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915570600-FUALHKYS9NMX0SV9OP01/IMG_9249825.JPG Portraits Mari Pack with her jalapeño plant in Queens, New York on Sunday, July 12, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709916370313-J0YOZT0Y5UVFANDJKR78/20200917_US_012.jpg Portraits Philip Wilson, Peace Corps volunteer and Rotary International member, is a polio survivor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915568357-SJKG5RUBLZTG6QY2B5S6/ey%2Brobertgray%2B091517%2Bp01.jpg Portraits Robert Gray, 86, is a former POW of the Korean War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915571129-8CYKC12ZU8NWTULW45CS/_A3B0123.JPG Portraits Jennifer Chen completed the Barclays Encore! Programme in 2019 after a two year career break and is now a VP in Treasury on the Capital and Management Leverage team. She works at the Barclays New York location on 7th Avenue. (Barclays) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915572988-S9H8CKY0SKAP8AGWRTS3/Katayun_Kapadia_01.jpg Portraits Katayun K. Kapadia. Kapadia retired from a pharmaceutical company; she is very active in the Zoroastrian community. She has two grown children and is from Bombay. Kapadia has been in the US since 1979, spent five years in Paris for work and has traveled the world. (For Grounds for Sculpture’s Local Voices: Memories, Stories and Portraits exhibit April 23, 2023-January 7, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915572508-HCCWEDXRY1PKM8S2G11R/EY+KeithHodge042314_1.jpg Portraits Keith Hodge, offender 1020453, recently moved to Indian Creek Correctional Center in Chesapeake, Va. from Dillwyn Correctional Center. Hodge had a publishing contract halfway through his third stint in prison and came out with two books, The Left Lane and The Left Lane 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915573933-CS4NMWIYCNZ9IOUTO9BR/_A3B0328.jpg Portraits Larkin Stallings, owner of the Ritz Cafe in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, stand in his bar. Stallings and his wife Jackie jumped in to help volunteer when 50 migrants arrived on two planes to the island sent by Gov. Ron DeSantis in September of 2022. Stallings is a vice president on the board of the Martha's Vineyard Community Services nonprofit, which came to the aid of the migrants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915574575-OG5Q5HY2GGLY5YX43TUX/Erica_Lee_Portraits_005.JPG Portraits Roanoke photographer Sarah Hazlegrove's photographic essay, "Tobacco People," will be shown simultaneously in three Roanoke museums: the Taubman Museum of Art, the O. Winston Link Museum and The Harrison Museum of African American Culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915575493-HVTJC27TKRLQLL6JDJD7/Erica_Lee_Portraits_003.JPG Portraits De'Angelo Ramsey is a running back and defensive end for Salem High School and poses for a portrait on their practice field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915575845-NH5KXZXYLYEAK4JSSJ27/Horizon001.jpg Portraits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915576503-ETWRMDCLT30NOEEYUKSX/EY+DrTuck040314_1.jpg Portraits Dr. Ken Tuck has been a Rotary Club member for 49 years and has perfect attendance. As an ophthalmologist at Vistar Eye Center, he has brought ophthalmologists from third world countries every year to help train them and is active in campaigns to prevent blindness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915576915-P9Q7SHFJJZRL2QGLWMXE/Erica_Lee_Portraits_010.JPG Portraits Jessica Surace Nelson, 35, and her Little Sister, Kianna Robinson, 17, sit on the stoops of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia house on Wells Avenue. Nelson and Robinson have been together for eleven years and Nelson has been named Virginia Big Sister of the Year by the Big Brothers Big Sisters Virginia Alliance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915577340-6XWI3YF3VRDTQYK7ORAY/Erica_Lee_Portraits_014.JPG Portraits Manager Philip Brownlow for the Roanoke Feed Mill at Southern States poses inside of the warehouse on 1003 Walnut Avenue in Vinton on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Brownlow started at the company in September of 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915579036-MERE6MUEBDKOBCQQ8D5Q/Erica_Lee_Portraits_024A.JPG Portraits Pam Rickard will celebrate her 54th birthday on May 16, which will also coincide the day she begins a 24-day journey across the country in the Ice Breaker Run, a 3,000 plus mile relay beginning in California to increase public awareness regarding mental health issues. Rickard and five others will average 130-140 miles a day, running 24 hours a day for 24 days until they reach Virginia. Rickard herself is celebrating ten years of sobriety after battling alcoholism and depression. "I'm hoping the conversation continues. Help one person, one family at a time. That's how anything grows," Rickard said about spreading the message. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915578484-7N6TXAJZG6AM9W9LV394/ey+callawayhouse+123115+p01.jpg Portraits John Shelor, a Roanoke architect, has purchased "the yellow house on the hill" in Callaway. Shelor stands in one of the first floor rooms facing the pool on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015. "I thought it was a cool house I wanted to live in," Shelor said when he first saw it. "I'm seeing things that aren't there yet," he added about the potential of the historical home. Shelor purchased the home in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915579686-09PZ9LDTLI35NY6DX5Z6/Erica_Lee_Portraits_029.JPG Portraits Seyward McKinney, 33, served in the Iraq war as an operating room technician. McKinney sits with her service dog, Whitney, in her home where medals that she's earned from various competitions that involve skiing, horse back riding and biking on her recumbent bike are displayed. Both Whitney and McKinney were at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at one point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1709915580317-UNNOEX0MTB24KMGJPWX0/ey+aerialsilksGAL+021618+p05.JPG Portraits Lynsey Wyatt, 21, hangs from aerial silks in the middle of the apartment atrium at Aurora apartments on Campbell Avenue. Wyatt says the aerial fabric blend in the atrium is about 40 feet and spans the length of three floors. She has another set of aerial silks that hang in a space at the Aurora Studio Center. http://www.ericaslee.com/continuing-the-tobacco-tradition daily 0.75 2019-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772401122-TYWNOAHWFGMU3MPGO3ZG/image-asset.jpeg Continuing the tobacco tradition Agustin Ramirez, a tobacco picker for the Mitchell twins, looks to deliver his handful of tobacco on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Steve Mitchell and his twin brother David are tobacco growers in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County, Virginia and raise 70 acres of flue-cured tobacco each year. After a decade of trepidation, blindly feeling for their footing in a market prone to wild swings, the confidence of tobacco farmers surged in 2014, as the last vestiges of the old era fade away. According to statistics from the Virginia Cooperative Extension, farmers in Pittsylvania and Franklin counties have planted, and are currently harvesting, more acres of flue-cured tobacco than in any year since the free market conditions took effect a decade ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772401122-TYWNOAHWFGMU3MPGO3ZG/image-asset.jpeg Continuing the tobacco tradition Agustin Ramirez, a tobacco picker for the Mitchell twins, looks to deliver his handful of tobacco on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Steve Mitchell and his twin brother David are tobacco growers in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County, Virginia and raise 70 acres of flue-cured tobacco each year. After a decade of trepidation, blindly feeling for their footing in a market prone to wild swings, the confidence of tobacco farmers surged in 2014, as the last vestiges of the old era fade away. According to statistics from the Virginia Cooperative Extension, farmers in Pittsylvania and Franklin counties have planted, and are currently harvesting, more acres of flue-cured tobacco than in any year since the free market conditions took effect a decade ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772472021-YBWEB6D1L32BNXMYLSGF/ey+tobaccofinal+100814+p04.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Steve Mitchell, 60, watches his hired workers pick tobacco on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Steve and his twin brother David are tobacco growers in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County, Virginia and raise 70 acres of flue-cured tobacco each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772800721-8CKK4505Q78GZ7NN891J/ey+tobaccofinal+100814+p03.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition A tobacco picker for the Mitchell twins holds a handful of tobacco on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Steve Mitchell and his twin brother David are tobacco growers in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County, Virginia and raise 70 acres of flue-cured tobacco each year.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772838385-D4FYUSVZ06RH134XTOJ5/ey+tobaccofinal+100814+p05.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Steve Mitchell, 60, left, and his twin brother David, work together to transport their tobacco to curing barns on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Steve and his twin brother David are third generation tobacco growers in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County, Virginia and raise 70 acres of flue-cured tobacco each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772913518-OJNSFVSS7GBLWJ8007XU/ey+tobacco+100214+p05.JPG Continuing the tobacco tradition The clothing of tobacco pickers lay to hang dry inside of a hot house on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Steve Mitchell and his twin brother David are third generation tobacco growers in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County, Virginia and raise 70 acres of flue-cured tobacco each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451772969847-LUBL56TX3MQZYXPIVLHI/ey+tobaccogallery+101114+p01.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Taylor Ray Amos, 28, spends some time with his children, Walker, ten months old, and Taylee, five years old, in the morning at home before he heads out to work. Taylor Ray Amos never seriously considered making his living off of anything but tobacco. Growing up in the southeastern fields of Franklin County, it was all around him, a craft and a lifestyle passed down through both sides of his family tree. But by the time he was in high school, his relatives were getting out of the business. It was 2001 when Amos’ great-grandfather died and his grandfather decided to quit. The government price support system, which had created relative stability since the 1930s, was being phased out. By 2004, the “quotas” that had governed how much tobacco each property owner or farmer could produce annually had been bought out, the industry returned to a free market system, even as payments resulting from the tectonic shift continued until this month. Amos, 28, set out on his own in 2007, never personally experiencing the dynamics of the quota system. Instead, he has experimented and adjusted in hopes of creating the type of tobacco-growing operation that can succeed in the contemporary economy of the “Old Belt,” where fewer farmers are producing more tobacco, with an emphasis on quality. He has expanded his crop to 103 acres, aiming to place as much of it as possible into the top quality bracket of the cigarette companies’ rating system. And he’s not alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451773044078-JECT3GW722SY6NGKZ64L/ey+tobaccogallery+101114+p02.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Taylor Ray Amos, 28, checks the curing barns and adjusts the temperatures at the start of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451773168621-G22A4HT6L6INQM3EE2F4/ey+tobaccofinal+100814+p01.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Taylor Ray Amos, 28, center, flips a bale of tobacco with temporary workers Jose Luis Galarza Zuniga, left, and Jose Manuel Hernandez Herrera, right, on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014 to load onto a lift that will place it onto a trailer. Amos had about thirteen workers from Mexico helping him that morning, packing anywhere from 630 to 800 pounds of flue-cured tobacco in one bale. They made about 12 bales of tobacco in the morning before heading back into the field to pick more tobacco. He has about less than half of his tobacco fields to harvest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451773239701-T3RT7ZV2UB6ZYS392K6T/ey+tobaccofinal+100814+p10.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Taylor Ray Amos, 28, pulls into where his flue-cured tobacco hangs in several barns. "I love what I do everyday. If you really love what you do, you never work a day in your life," he said. Amos continues a long tradition of raising tobacco in his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451773304608-ZC067S3HLWC6Z73SI7CE/ey+tobaccofinal+100814+p06.jpg Continuing the tobacco tradition Taylor Ray Amos, 28, holds his son, Walker, ten months old, inside of a tractor while Amos works on baling flue-cured tobacco in the Snow Creek area of Franklin County. "Since I was 5 or 6 this was what I wanted to do. I didn't want to do anything else," Amos said. 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Rainy-day practices are the worst, especially in the cold. As she leads her rowing team, Sebastiana Lopez feels the rain pelting her face, soaking her clothes and working its way into her bones. Her fingers go numb. Yet Lopez, 17, a high school senior, calls this the best thing she has ever done for herself. As an eighth grader, she had signed up for this test of toughness at Row New York, a nonprofit that teaches city students how to row and gives them academic support and college counseling. Now, more than four years later, her routine includes pushing through her grueling sport’s trying moments. “I can handle the hard days,” Lopez said. “I make myself do it because I really want to go to college and I know this will help me get there.” She tries not to cry, but fails, and says, “I do want a better life for my family.” (Erica Yoon for The New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/sports/she-wants-to-row-to-get-from-nyc-into-college.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280426095-FMDQOFOX0O1JZPPUXCXV/EY_RowNY_052.JPG Sebastiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280566392-TB7OEABD302ZG3APXIPJ/EY_RowNY_007.JPG Sebastiana Young women participate in rowing practice through Row New York at Meadow Lake on Thursday, May 2, 2019 in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280598948-1G5ZWCBMDDAD6FMREXCJ/EY_RowNY_009.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez, 17, a coxswain, left, gives direction to her teammates during practice at Meadow Lake on Thursday, May 2, 2019 in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. “Before I used to be really shy and I didn’t really speak up for myself. When I exercise my position as a coxswain, I learn how to speak up for myself and always be heard out there,” said Lopez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280540036-7PPF8WHVONW88N92N4VF/EY_RowNY_005.JPG Sebastiana Young women carry their boat over to Meadow Lake to get ready for practice with Row New York on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280567632-KKZYS2C0HNUS8YEM54FP/EY_RowNY_002.JPG Sebastiana Young women in the Row New York Queens program huddle together at the end of practice on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at the World’s Fair Boathouse in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280632004-KR86NKXXKR14L7YY1LAI/EY_RowNY_012.JPG Sebastiana (From left) Sebastiana Lopez, 17, Ix’Chel Angeles, 16, and Salma Youssef, 17, wait in a shuttle with other young women near the 7 train subway stop at Willets Point to head to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for rowing practice on Thursday, May 2, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280687885-ARV6UPFQ5YWPAB0T1WL4/EY_RowNY_052.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez works on her homework and looks through mail sent from different colleges while in her kitchen at home in Queens Friday evening, Oct. 11, 2019 after rowing practice late in the evening. Lopez is a coxswain for Row New York. Lopez says she probably wouldn’t have toured any colleges if it weren’t for Row New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579281011615-7OGN0PRK9MQK2DI2Z53L/EY_RowNY_060.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez talks with her mother Cristina Cuevas late Friday evening in their apartment in Queens Oct. 11, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280719830-3M5HJ0EEVXK2FGD6S41C/EY_RowNY_055.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez gets ready for her next day’s rowing practice while her father Isadoro, left, and brother Adrian, 16, relax in bed Friday evening, Oct. 11, 2019. The family of five share a room together. Isadoro relaxes after a long 11-hour day of work. Lopez is a coxswain for Row New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280751946-VYBUIIDUGDDXL4K3TA9N/EY_RowNY_051.JPG Sebastiana Bre Fitzsimmons, the Queens varsity coach, leads a number of recruits through instructions on how to begin rowing on an erg. Tryouts for RowNY were held at the Long Island City YMCA on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579281085428-6Z9Y0ZADWLAHP6HMB8VF/EY_RowNY_042.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez, left, tells recruit Mariya Sergeeva, an 8th grader at Russell Sage Junior High School, to try and row harder to hit a certain number on the erg, with fellow recruit Ariana Reyes, right, also rowing alongside her. Tryouts for RowNY were held at the Long Island City YMCA on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280630155-FFDVSGQ66J0LFNM1K8NE/EY_RowNY_010.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez, 17, left, feeds a snack to her teammate Ix’Chel Angeles, 16, right, as Salma Youssef, 17, center, walks with them back to the 7 subway train at Willets Point after rowing practice on Thursday, May 2, 2019 in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1579280654613-0DXHRTL2RPX7ZRI8NPWN/EY_RowNY_023.JPG Sebastiana Sebastiana Lopez, 17, walks home from the train station after rowing practice on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Lopez commits six days a week to practice after school and usually gets home around 7:30pm. http://www.ericaslee.com/homelessness daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524629900-39XRUE15YAF1MYUZWVJX/EL_Homeless_003.JPG Living at the Quality Inn Dakota Skye, 10, and Ethan, 9, walk down the hotel hallway to buy some candy from the vending machine in the lobby on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. Goode said she is apprehensive about her children playing outside for safety reasons, so a lot of their time is spent inside the hotel on the weekends. When they can, they like to take trips to Wal-mart and the animal shelter on the weekends. (Erica Lee for The New York Times, “A Homeless Family Navigates Life Warped by the Coronavirus”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524629900-39XRUE15YAF1MYUZWVJX/EL_Homeless_003.JPG Living at the Quality Inn Dakota Skye, 10, and Ethan, 9, walk down the hotel hallway to buy some candy from the vending machine in the lobby on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. Goode said she is apprehensive about her children playing outside for safety reasons, so a lot of their time is spent inside the hotel on the weekends. When they can, they like to take trips to Wal-mart and the animal shelter on the weekends. (Erica Lee for The New York Times, “A Homeless Family Navigates Life Warped by the Coronavirus”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524630361-ZU07IMROD1ACUSEDKFUN/EL_Homeless_001.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode, 39, cooks hamburgers for lunch on a portable skillet for her children in a hotel room as they relax on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. “When you have this many people, especially kids in this space, it breeds stress,” Goode said of their situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524631515-4JQPLI0KHXL8JFBUWWDS/EL_Homeless_008.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode, 39, finds ingredients to make a hamburger lunch for her children from the hotel refrigerator on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Without a car, Goode has to take a Lyft to go to the grocery store. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524631539-M0LQ1CDZD4ES4STFBGTI/EL_Homeless_022.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode chops shallots on a styrofoam plate while cooking hamburgers for lunch in a hotel room with her children on Saturday, March 7, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710525523346-CNBRKN9G43LA2XT2UC6B/EL_Homeless_002.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode, 39, looks through her belongings for ingredients to cook hamburgers in a hotel with her four children on Saturday, March 7, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524632817-7V0S3VKV1F1YGWVPLBND/EL_Homeless_023.JPG Living at the Quality Inn Ethan, 9, relaxes while playing a game on a laptop while his older sisters Miriah, 12, and Jazmyn, 14, also pass time on their phones on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. April Goode said she is apprehensive about her children playing outside for safety reasons, so a lot of their time is spent inside the hotel on the weekends. When they can, they like to take trips to Wal-mart and the animal shelter on the weekends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524632741-ITTJN43JZWB7SP0P46TC/EL_Homeless_026.JPG Living at the Quality Inn In efforts to make the hotel room space feel more like a home, April Goode purchased small plants to place in the window sill in the one window of their room. The window can’t open. Small bottles of hand sanitizer are also wedged in between the plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524633850-96KAUEICZD41GLLZWIZA/EL_Homeless_017.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode eats her lunch on the hotel bed as she talks to her oldest daughter Jazmyn, 14, on Saturday, March 7, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524634149-RD6855JGGUL12EX35GBQ/EL_Homeless_007.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode displays her son’s graded spelling tests on the hotel room furniture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524634758-088TRADY5UZSSMI698R5/EL_Homeless_005.JPG Living at the Quality Inn Jazmyn, 14, sits in her own space while using her phone in the corner of the hotel room with her other family members relax not far from her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524635729-8IPIPCPX019HFB3WJX5D/EL_Homeless_011.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode saved two fortune cookie slips as encouragement for herself and keeps them on the night stand next to their beds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524635806-BT18DMA8UK3083TLIZZP/EL_Homeless_013.JPG Living at the Quality Inn Ethan, 9, watches his mom April Goode wash the skillet in the hotel bathroom sink on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. “We have everything we need in this room - food, clothing…but we don’t have affordable housing,” Goode said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710524636889-7RXTV2JI4YFE008RBK5D/EL_Homeless_020.JPG Living at the Quality Inn April Goode, 39, sits for a portrait with her children, including (from left) Ethan, 9, Dakota Skye, 10, Jazmyn, 14, and Miriah, 12. Goode and her children have been living at the Quality Inn in Ledgewood, New Jersey for a month now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710525530849-3GGOWVO1H69U3GPYDSPX/EL_Homeless_030.JPG Living at the Quality Inn Dakota Skye, 10, turns a corner to buy some candy with her brother Ethan from the vending machine at the Quality Inn hotel. http://www.ericaslee.com/hurricane-ian daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531780380-E0ZKDU5MGX9AJ61EILGV/169__A3B0101A.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Charlie Whitehead leaves Emily Lane mobile home park to bring his neighbors Pat and Les Pickett to a shelter in Estero for the evening on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. It was the first time the Picketts were leaving their home since Hurricane Ian hit. Coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on San Carlos Island, Florida and the Fort Myers region in October 2022. “Ian made landfall 20 miles from their mobile home community. Left with scraps and debris, these longtime neighbors wonder what’s next” (Erica Lee/CNN) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531780380-E0ZKDU5MGX9AJ61EILGV/169__A3B0101A.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Charlie Whitehead leaves Emily Lane mobile home park to bring his neighbors Pat and Les Pickett to a shelter in Estero for the evening on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. It was the first time the Picketts were leaving their home since Hurricane Ian hit. Coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on San Carlos Island, Florida and the Fort Myers region in October 2022. “Ian made landfall 20 miles from their mobile home community. Left with scraps and debris, these longtime neighbors wonder what’s next” (Erica Lee/CNN) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531780116-EYWCSF0HFOPPML14EZQS/105__A3B0271.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Charlie Whitehead, 64, tries to salvage photos from his home on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Florida on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. Whitehead had been a resident since 1985 and worked as a journalist for the Naples Daily News close to 25 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531775518-6NNIN3TH5TZLOREH17OR/_A3B0121A.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Edith Lopez shows how high the water rose in her bedroom while covering her nose from the smell of mold during Hurricane Ian in the Whitewater Court neighborhood in Fort Myers Beach on Friday, October 7, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531777862-RL54PJY2TMW4A9U7IUT9/_A3B0361.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath After the waters receded from flooding neighborhood streets, fish were left behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531776568-DYBCICGINKT3ONVCE6ZB/_A3B0174.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Debris in the San Carlos Island community of Emily Lane on Fort Myers Beach on Thursday, October 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531774036-CVDDFO52UVJDFJISM8O7/_A3B0047.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Robert Heather, 73, lives at Sunnyland Trailer Park in in San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach. Heather lost everything during Hurricane Ian, including the car seen behind him. “I lost everything — no phone, no wallet, no ID’s,” he said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531778633-23EO2WLAIDN5HC3HPBQ0/074__A3B0495.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Les Pickett, 84, gathers items from a bedroom before leaving for shelter in Estero on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. The Picketts were home when Hurricane Ian hit. Water rose to their chins and their furniture began to float around them. They slept in the guest bedroom without power after the hurricane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710533131618-W97IR7DZRGFZJLV5J1K2/080__A3B0174.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath The Picketts were home when Hurricane Ian hit. Water rose to their chins and their furniture began to float around them. Pat and Les decided to stay and try to clean up a week later on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531774910-IUC6173CQV19KHZQ5U7F/_A3B0119.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Anthony Williams, 50, was born and raised in Fort Myers, Florida and lives in Lehigh Acres. Williams works on a shrimp boat based out of Fort Myers Beach, but lost his livelihood during Hurricane Ian. “I lost a lot of stuff. I’m alive. I’ve got breath of life,” Williams said. Williams was at the Chevron gas station in San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach checking on his friend who rode out the hurricane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531818116-6D08HTRA6OS4UPM3UORJ/007__A3B0412.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Lourdes Penagos, third from left, and Carmel Maignan, fourth from left, both with FEMA, talk to a group of residents at Sunnyland Trailer Park on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Florida on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531776508-FHEOQ9D15Z647MHW7L8I/_A3B0222.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Bryan Corona, 9, holds his pet squirrel Alvin, next to Iker Corona, 5, who both survived Hurricane Ian in the neighborhood of Whitewater Court of Fort Myers Beach, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531774796-KNIJ3J9ILQGQ41IORQP6/_A3B0061.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Anis Castillo, left, helps distribute ice to neighbors, including José Ramirez and Francisco Hernandes at Sunnyland Trailer Park in San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach on Tuesday, October 4. Castillo owns a business with her husband Joey Fernandez, down the street and efforted aid to her neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531778479-NYZV3PLUWQXUMB2UEZW0/008__A3B0002.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Bottles of water sits off of San Carlos Boulevard in Fort Myers, Florida on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531775551-JFUNZ2G9J236GLZD75LD/_A3B0160A.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Emergency aid and storage containers attached to helicopters constantly flew in the sky during the daytime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531774061-R29GS5LQZ7LPY1ZSN3RY/_A3B0022.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Cole Mazza, 25, shows how high the water reached in his home in the Whitewater Court neighborhood before he decided to leave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710532053558-1GBK6L2V0G67T6MJKCTQ/_A3B0070.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Temple Condon, a resident of Sunnyland Trailer Park in San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, stands in front of her home that survived Hurricane Ian on Tuesday, October 4. Condon is still living there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710532052926-UCMA7X9C1EV8ZELXO1LC/050__A3B0169.JPG Hurricane Ian Aftermath Dried mud and a coconut cracks from the heat of the sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710532054199-V3KAVIJYQJVBKB69RLNR/001__A3B0372.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Carlos Hernandes, 37, and Robert Heather, 73, both live at Sunnyland Trailer Park in San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach. Carlos helped save Robert after breaking the window to Robert’s apartment, seen between them, to pull him out from drowning in the waters flooding from Hurricane Ian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710532054640-841NKOFWJKZ1BOKJ56IY/011__A3B0007.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Damage to a trailer park community on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach is seen on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, a week after Hurricane Ian hit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531902135-I9G9XE8NVLPQ581U7EAE/_A3B0295.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Miguel Romero says goodbye to his parents in the Linda Loma Road neighborhood of Iona on Saturday, October 8, 2022. Romero has been renting off Linda Loma Drive for 18 years. Him and his family were home when Hurricane Ian arrived. They climbed into the attic to get to safety from the rising floodwater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531777686-GYLJVK9XA3JD1PWCPP7B/_A3B0310.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531818135-876MN47ZFWNHNPSCNI9Z/127__A3B0431.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Charlie Whitehead, 64, talks to various people in front of his home on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Florida on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. Whitehead had been a resident since 1985 and worked as a journalist for the Naples Daily News close to 25 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531819295-IY8NC2PN8OIX4F838YQP/_A3B0125.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Matanzas Pass Bridge, the bridge that connects to Fort Myers Beach, remained closed on Tuesday, October 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1710531779758-JK7AISOBJA6SIDCPDE2C/091__A3B0208.jpg Hurricane Ian Aftermath Pat Pickett, 83, greets her neighbor Kim Haefner in the San Carlos Island community on Fort Myers Beach on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. http://www.ericaslee.com/contact1 daily 0.75 2013-09-10 http://www.ericaslee.com/about-ba daily 0.75 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1506615628769-PK7D0SUXRB275WD7PWPM/0R7A8899cropped.jpg About/Contact The Great Valley Overlook, Sept. 17, 2017, off the Blue Ridge Parkway. http://www.ericaslee.com/video-1 daily 0.75 2021-10-27 http://www.ericaslee.com/sami daily 0.75 2016-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451770632642-7Y7K9MUP6O9UWH9OB9TO/image-asset.jpeg Sami Younes' sister gives him a kiss during his birthday party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451770031575-FJ7SXSRO905600RWMUTV/image-asset.jpeg Sami Younes relaxes in the morning with one of his cats, Beans, at home. He shares an apartment with a roommate, Angelica Martinez. As a Lebanese and Puerto Rican transgender man, Younes has yet to find somebody like himself. He has attempted to form social groups for trans men of color but they never successfully materialized. "I do feel a bit alone," Younes said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451769795018-MPXI131DQXD3XCCXU8LS/image-asset.jpeg Sami Younes holds a senior portrait picture of himself in high school when he was formerly Mariam. Being beautiful equated to becoming a good daughter in Younes' experiences with his family. "All I knew was that I was a girl and I had to be a girl and inside, I didn't feel that way," he said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451770158409-WWA669YMOYNTGB4719NI/image-asset.jpeg Sami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451770245288-DS930E1OKD6UHAG1HD0V/image-asset.jpeg Sami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5213bf6ce4b06d5f9d376e8e/1451769706740-APEELAO1OYUMSLRL6QWV/image-asset.jpeg Sami Sami Younes, 26, began his physical transition three years ago. "Transition didn't solve everything for me. I still have a lot of growing to do as person. But I think I'm in a better position to face it now," he said. 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