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The cast of Black Panther, Lupita NyongÕo, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira and Chadwick Boseman for The New York Times. -
From the project, ‘Chroma’. -
Issa Rae for The Washington Post. -
Kumail Nanjiani for The New York Times. -
LOS ANGELES, California, Oct. 1: Ron Finley, pictured here in his home garden, grew up in the food desert, or food prison as he refers to it, of South Central Los Angeles, and has become an activist and powerful proponent of urban gardening. In 2010, Finley dug up a strip of land between his house and the street and started planting fruit and vegetables. It was illegal to plant these on the land between the sidewalk and curb but he got the city of Los Angeles to change the law. The “Residential Parkway Landscaping Guidelines” were changed to end fines for vegetable gardens within the strip owned by the city. In early 2013, Finley gave a TED talk on his progress as a “guerrilla gardener,” the dangers of food deserts, and the potential for his program to improve quality of life. He said in the talk, “If kids grow kale, kids eat kale; if they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes.” The talk has received over two million views on the TED web site, and attracted attention from numerous celebrities and collaboration proposals from corporations. After his TED talk, Finley developed a gardening training facility under the name of The Ron Finley Project in South Central Los Angeles. His guerilla gardening efforts have had modest success in persuading city officials to cooperate, but remain officially illegal under city code. In 2016, The Ron Finley Project was told they had to buy the property hosting their garden for $500,000, or it would be shut down. A fundraising campaign ensued. The campaign got the attention of natural food companies, and the original $500,000 goal was surpassed. Finley refers to himself as a “gangsta gardener”, explaining, “Gardening is gangsta. Drugs, robbing—that’s not gangsta. Building community—that’s gangsta. I’m changing the vernacular.” -
The winner of the watermelon eating competition, Marisa Pettet, at Sparklebration, an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration at the Pasco County Fairgrounds in Dade City, Florida. -
From the project, ‘The Fourth Wall’. -
Michelle Luxembourger of Fountain Valley, California, died her hair for the occasion at the Championship Soccer Stadium inside Orange County Great Park where the Kobe Bryant memorial was shown on the big screen for the community to view in Irvine, California. -
Singer and musician “Weird Al” Yankovic at his home in Los Angeles, California, for The Washington Post. -
Julia Roberts for The New York Times. -
Zoe Kravitz for Ford. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. -
From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. -
Colm Toibin, Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet for The New York Times. -
Helena Rodriguez, an immigrant who came from Cuba at the age of 14, at a protest against the current administration held by the Tea Party movement in Tampa, Fla., near the Bob Martinez Sports Complex where President Obama addressed a crowd. “Big government enslaves people,” said Rodriguez of her involvement with the Tea Party movement. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. -
Michael Diaz has been an EMT for 12 years now. He poses for a portrait near his home in Palmdale, California. -
From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. -
From the project, ‘Chroma’. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. -
Karlyn Nelson and her son Theo Lind at their home in Los Angeles, California, for The Wall Street Journal. -
Philip Gordon and his wife Amanda Gordon of Winnerka, California came to mourn alongside a crowd gathered behind a police barricade at the helicopter crash site that killed Kobe Bryant in Calabasas, California. The GordonÕs son, Ayden, attended the Koby Bryant Academy basketball camp five years in a row, and was able to personally interact with the sports star. -
From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. -
Alicia Vikander for Variety Magazine. -
Golden State Tattoo Expo in Pasadena, California for Inked Magazine. -
From the project, ‘Chroma’. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. -
An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert in Nipton, California off of Interstate 15 near Primm, Nevada. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. -
Karen la Carriere, aka., ‘The Queen of Scientology’ at her home in Los Angeles, California. -
Mrs. Eva Billups Andrews stands in her backyard in Manning, SC. Andrews never had a proper birth certificate or photo ID, nor did her sister. Andrews found Brenda Williams, M.D., who helped her navigate through the expensive and extensive process of retroactively attaining a correct birth certificate, which she is still waiting to receive. The process required the help of Sumter, SC, lawyer Ruben L. Gray, court proceedings, and the history in her family Bible among much more. Dr. Williams, a general practitioner who runs her own family practice alongside her husband in Sumter, S.C., has helped over 50 individuals attain voter IDs and has a waiting list. Williams compares the new laws to Jim Crow-era poll taxes as those affected are disproportionately composed of poor African-American citizens. -
Artist Kadir Nelson at his studio in downtown Los Angeles, California, for The New York Times. -
Pam Skaist and Gela Nash-Taylor, creators and former owners of Juicy Couture, in their studio in the Hollywood Hills for The Wall Street Journal. -
Pamela Lopez for Mother Jones. -
From the project, ‘Muse’. -
From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. -
From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. -
From the project, ‘Muse’. -
Eva Longoria for The New York Times. -
From the project, ‘Chroma’. -
Will Ferrell for The New York Times. -
Gatorland, a 110-acre alligator theme park founded by the late Owen Godwin in 1949, in Orlando, Florida. -
Casey Smith in the warehouse at his father’s farm, Keith Smith Farm, in Golden Ridge, Alabama. Local farmers and business owners with labor crews are faced with devastating consequences and loss of workforce due to the careless new state law, HB 56. The bill has done little more than cause the immigrant community to flee, with few qualified to fill their jobs, hurting the state’s economy. -
Jayanta Jenkins for Twitter. -
Shaun Baker for ESPN’s The Undefeated. -
Singer and musician “Weird Al” Yankovic at his home in Los Angeles, California, for The New York Times. -
Street performers near Pier 60 in Clearwater, Florida. -
From the project, ‘The Fourth Wall’. -
From the project, ‘My Waking Life’.
The cast of Black Panther, Lupita NyongÕo, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira and Chadwick Boseman for The New York Times. From the project, ‘Chroma’. Issa Rae for The Washington Post. Kumail Nanjiani for The New York Times. LOS ANGELES, California, Oct. 1: Ron Finley, pictured here in his home garden, grew up in the food desert, or food prison as he refers to it, of South Central Los Angeles, and has become an activist and powerful proponent of urban gardening. In 2010, Finley dug up a strip of land between his house and the street and started planting fruit and vegetables. It was illegal to plant these on the land between the sidewalk and curb but he got the city of Los Angeles to change the law. The “Residential Parkway Landscaping Guidelines” were changed to end fines for vegetable gardens within the strip owned by the city. In early 2013, Finley gave a TED talk on his progress as a “guerrilla gardener,” the dangers of food deserts, and the potential for his program to improve quality of life. He said in the talk, “If kids grow kale, kids eat kale; if they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes.” The talk has received over two million views on the TED web site, and attracted attention from numerous celebrities and collaboration proposals from corporations. After his TED talk, Finley developed a gardening training facility under the name of The Ron Finley Project in South Central Los Angeles. His guerilla gardening efforts have had modest success in persuading city officials to cooperate, but remain officially illegal under city code. In 2016, The Ron Finley Project was told they had to buy the property hosting their garden for $500,000, or it would be shut down. A fundraising campaign ensued. The campaign got the attention of natural food companies, and the original $500,000 goal was surpassed. Finley refers to himself as a “gangsta gardener”, explaining, “Gardening is gangsta. Drugs, robbing—that’s not gangsta. Building community—that’s gangsta. I’m changing the vernacular.” The winner of the watermelon eating competition, Marisa Pettet, at Sparklebration, an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration at the Pasco County Fairgrounds in Dade City, Florida. From the project, ‘The Fourth Wall’. Michelle Luxembourger of Fountain Valley, California, died her hair for the occasion at the Championship Soccer Stadium inside Orange County Great Park where the Kobe Bryant memorial was shown on the big screen for the community to view in Irvine, California. Singer and musician “Weird Al” Yankovic at his home in Los Angeles, California, for The Washington Post. Julia Roberts for The New York Times. Zoe Kravitz for Ford. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. Colm Toibin, Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet for The New York Times. Helena Rodriguez, an immigrant who came from Cuba at the age of 14, at a protest against the current administration held by the Tea Party movement in Tampa, Fla., near the Bob Martinez Sports Complex where President Obama addressed a crowd. “Big government enslaves people,” said Rodriguez of her involvement with the Tea Party movement. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. Michael Diaz has been an EMT for 12 years now. He poses for a portrait near his home in Palmdale, California. From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. From the project, ‘Chroma’. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. Karlyn Nelson and her son Theo Lind at their home in Los Angeles, California, for The Wall Street Journal. Philip Gordon and his wife Amanda Gordon of Winnerka, California came to mourn alongside a crowd gathered behind a police barricade at the helicopter crash site that killed Kobe Bryant in Calabasas, California. The GordonÕs son, Ayden, attended the Koby Bryant Academy basketball camp five years in a row, and was able to personally interact with the sports star. From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. Alicia Vikander for Variety Magazine. Golden State Tattoo Expo in Pasadena, California for Inked Magazine. From the project, ‘Chroma’. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert in Nipton, California off of Interstate 15 near Primm, Nevada. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’. Karen la Carriere, aka., ‘The Queen of Scientology’ at her home in Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Eva Billups Andrews stands in her backyard in Manning, SC. Andrews never had a proper birth certificate or photo ID, nor did her sister. Andrews found Brenda Williams, M.D., who helped her navigate through the expensive and extensive process of retroactively attaining a correct birth certificate, which she is still waiting to receive. The process required the help of Sumter, SC, lawyer Ruben L. Gray, court proceedings, and the history in her family Bible among much more. Dr. Williams, a general practitioner who runs her own family practice alongside her husband in Sumter, S.C., has helped over 50 individuals attain voter IDs and has a waiting list. Williams compares the new laws to Jim Crow-era poll taxes as those affected are disproportionately composed of poor African-American citizens. Artist Kadir Nelson at his studio in downtown Los Angeles, California, for The New York Times. Pam Skaist and Gela Nash-Taylor, creators and former owners of Juicy Couture, in their studio in the Hollywood Hills for The Wall Street Journal. Pamela Lopez for Mother Jones. From the project, ‘Muse’. From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. From the project, ‘A Fevered Dream’. From the project, ‘Muse’. Eva Longoria for The New York Times. From the project, ‘Chroma’. Will Ferrell for The New York Times. Gatorland, a 110-acre alligator theme park founded by the late Owen Godwin in 1949, in Orlando, Florida. Casey Smith in the warehouse at his father’s farm, Keith Smith Farm, in Golden Ridge, Alabama. Local farmers and business owners with labor crews are faced with devastating consequences and loss of workforce due to the careless new state law, HB 56. The bill has done little more than cause the immigrant community to flee, with few qualified to fill their jobs, hurting the state’s economy. Jayanta Jenkins for Twitter. Shaun Baker for ESPN’s The Undefeated. Singer and musician “Weird Al” Yankovic at his home in Los Angeles, California, for The New York Times. Street performers near Pier 60 in Clearwater, Florida. From the project, ‘The Fourth Wall’. From the project, ‘My Waking Life’.