Qendresa Hasani, 16, sits patiently while her groom’s family livestreams videos for relatives abroad on her wedding day, March 9, 2020, outside of Mitrovica, Kosovo. “There are some feelings that you cannot describe,” Qendresa said of the day. “There’s sorrow, happiness, anxiety, everything all at once.” In Kosovo, the minimum age to legally marry is 16 with parental consent.
Forest Park Seniors Gavin Knust, left, and Abby Eckert, right, rest up on the way to a football game at North Posey High School in Poseyville, Ind., Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. "I just see myself as one of the guys out there," said Eckert, the third female kicker in the history of Forest Part High School football.
Crowds gather to watch the Hog Wrestling competition at Dale Fall Festival in Dale, Ind., Saturday afternoon, Sept. 7, 2019. Each year at this popular event, children and adults in teams of four attempt to wrangle a pig faster than their peers.
Halubajski zvončari, traditional bell ringers based on mythical creatures in Croatian folklore, are led through villages in the Viskovo region near Rijeka, Croatia on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Though Carnival is celebrated throughout Croatia, this group of men in Viskovo are recognized by UNESCO for their full-coverage masks.
Denis Avery smiles at his girlfriend Adrian Davis and their six-week-old son Cyrus Davis after bath time at their apartment in Monticello, Ny., Oct. 13th, 2019. Davis, who takes classes through the Sullivan County Breastfeeding Coalition, says breastfeeding is “just a connection between mother and child […] something that dad can’t intervene and take.”
Residents of New Orleans East leave New Orleans City Council in tears on March 8, 2018, after council voted in favor of building an Entergy power plant in their neighborhood. Community members cited numerous environmental, health and financial concerns in opposition of the project.
Tippecanoe of Ancient Fife and Drum Corps of Lafayette, Ind., play drums atop the New Harmony Atheneum at Kunstfest, a German festival in New Harmony, Ind., Saturday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2019.
Faith Vance, 4, of Mount Vernon, Ill., looks underneath her father Quinton Vance's 1948 GMC at the 45th annual Frogs Follies held at Vanderburgh 4-H Center in Evansville, Friday afternoon, Aug. 23, 2019.
Bre’Monyaa Jones, 17, of Evansville practices a routine with Boom Squad’s dance team, the Blue Diamonds, before they perform in the Evansville Christmas on North Main Parade in Evansville, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. “It just makes me feel good, feel confident,” Jones said of dance, “it makes me fearless.”
Anny Rivera, right, Maria Jose Velazquez, 5, center, and Valerie Zuniga, 5, overlook flooding from their front porch on Oakville Street in Lynn, Mass., after a storm on July 9, 2021. “For as long as we’ve been here, it’s always been a problem,” said Rivera.
Men from Serb-majority municipalities of North Kosovo gather along the shore of Gazivoda Lake in Zubin Potok to participate in Epiphany cross diving on Jan. 19, 2020. Each year on the day of Christ’s baptism, Orthodox priests throw a gold cross into the lake and the person who retrieves it receives blessings for a year.
Ancka, a Slovenian customer whose been shopping at Azman & Sons Market in Cleveland, Ohio since 1961, walks behind the counter to handpick her sausage links on Oct. 15, 2020.
Boston Circus Guild member Liz Knights walked on stilts at the Braintree Fourth of July celebration in Braintree, Mass. on June 27, 2021.
A photo of Nita Azemi as a small child hangs in her bedroom in Bujanovac, Serbia, next to the words “just keep dreaming.” Azemi grew up in this small town in Serbia’s Presevo Valley where Albanians make up a majority of the population.
After processing sausage, Raymond Smerritt, left, and Vince Zachary take a smoke break in the office behind Azman & Sons Market in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2020.
Lizzy Gilchrist, 10, of Sharpsburg, Ohio helps her neighbors care for their twin babies, Eli and Evan Hammer ,4 months, who were recently brought home from the NICU, May 5, 2019.
My grandmother, Vinka Botic, 94, who suffers from dementia rests in bed while her caretaker Zora brushes the hair from her face, Jan. 25, 2017, Belgrade, Serbia.
Sister Anastasia, 75, tends to the graves at Marcha Monastery, a Serbian Orthodox women’s monastery in Richfield, Ohio, where she is the only remaining nun, Oct. 20, 2020.
Qendresa Hasani, 16, sits patiently while her groom’s family livestreams videos for relatives abroad on her wedding day, March 9, 2020, outside of Mitrovica, Kosovo. “There are some feelings that you cannot describe,” Qendresa said of the day. “There’s sorrow, happiness, anxiety, everything all at once.” In Kosovo, the minimum age to legally marry is 16 with parental consent.
Forest Park Seniors Gavin Knust, left, and Abby Eckert, right, rest up on the way to a football game at North Posey High School in Poseyville, Ind., Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. "I just see myself as one of the guys out there," said Eckert, the third female kicker in the history of Forest Part High School football.
Crowds gather to watch the Hog Wrestling competition at Dale Fall Festival in Dale, Ind., Saturday afternoon, Sept. 7, 2019. Each year at this popular event, children and adults in teams of four attempt to wrangle a pig faster than their peers.
Halubajski zvončari, traditional bell ringers based on mythical creatures in Croatian folklore, are led through villages in the Viskovo region near Rijeka, Croatia on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Though Carnival is celebrated throughout Croatia, this group of men in Viskovo are recognized by UNESCO for their full-coverage masks.
Denis Avery smiles at his girlfriend Adrian Davis and their six-week-old son Cyrus Davis after bath time at their apartment in Monticello, Ny., Oct. 13th, 2019. Davis, who takes classes through the Sullivan County Breastfeeding Coalition, says breastfeeding is “just a connection between mother and child […] something that dad can’t intervene and take.”
Residents of New Orleans East leave New Orleans City Council in tears on March 8, 2018, after council voted in favor of building an Entergy power plant in their neighborhood. Community members cited numerous environmental, health and financial concerns in opposition of the project.
Tippecanoe of Ancient Fife and Drum Corps of Lafayette, Ind., play drums atop the New Harmony Atheneum at Kunstfest, a German festival in New Harmony, Ind., Saturday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2019.
Faith Vance, 4, of Mount Vernon, Ill., looks underneath her father Quinton Vance's 1948 GMC at the 45th annual Frogs Follies held at Vanderburgh 4-H Center in Evansville, Friday afternoon, Aug. 23, 2019.
Bre’Monyaa Jones, 17, of Evansville practices a routine with Boom Squad’s dance team, the Blue Diamonds, before they perform in the Evansville Christmas on North Main Parade in Evansville, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. “It just makes me feel good, feel confident,” Jones said of dance, “it makes me fearless.”
Anny Rivera, right, Maria Jose Velazquez, 5, center, and Valerie Zuniga, 5, overlook flooding from their front porch on Oakville Street in Lynn, Mass., after a storm on July 9, 2021. “For as long as we’ve been here, it’s always been a problem,” said Rivera.
Men from Serb-majority municipalities of North Kosovo gather along the shore of Gazivoda Lake in Zubin Potok to participate in Epiphany cross diving on Jan. 19, 2020. Each year on the day of Christ’s baptism, Orthodox priests throw a gold cross into the lake and the person who retrieves it receives blessings for a year.
Ancka, a Slovenian customer whose been shopping at Azman & Sons Market in Cleveland, Ohio since 1961, walks behind the counter to handpick her sausage links on Oct. 15, 2020.
Boston Circus Guild member Liz Knights walked on stilts at the Braintree Fourth of July celebration in Braintree, Mass. on June 27, 2021.
A photo of Nita Azemi as a small child hangs in her bedroom in Bujanovac, Serbia, next to the words “just keep dreaming.” Azemi grew up in this small town in Serbia’s Presevo Valley where Albanians make up a majority of the population.
After processing sausage, Raymond Smerritt, left, and Vince Zachary take a smoke break in the office behind Azman & Sons Market in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 14, 2020.
Lizzy Gilchrist, 10, of Sharpsburg, Ohio helps her neighbors care for their twin babies, Eli and Evan Hammer ,4 months, who were recently brought home from the NICU, May 5, 2019.
My grandmother, Vinka Botic, 94, who suffers from dementia rests in bed while her caretaker Zora brushes the hair from her face, Jan. 25, 2017, Belgrade, Serbia.
Sister Anastasia, 75, tends to the graves at Marcha Monastery, a Serbian Orthodox women’s monastery in Richfield, Ohio, where she is the only remaining nun, Oct. 20, 2020.