Portraiture

The Sun City Poms
Juan and Imelda Calderon in El Paso, Texas October 4, 2019. Imelda, who suffers from dementia, went missing in November 2018 when she slipped away from her husband at a store and then somehow made it across the Mexico border in Juarez.
David Walter Banks
Young Thug
Young Thug for FADER
Aga Maru
Perry Fisher is working with Attorney Peter Borenstein to try and reclaim money allegedly stolen by his former attorney when he was incarcerated.
For The Marshall Project
Robby Redar, Long Beach
For ProPublica
Tanaïs is a novelist and she also created Hi Wildflower, a beauty and fragrance brand.
Lana Miller designed posters and t-shirts for the Women’s March in Los Angeles and sells them to raise money for charity.
For Elle
Actress-writer-comedian Noël Wells,
Artistic duo FriendsWithYou are Samuel Borkson (left) and Arturo Sandoval III.
For The New York Times
Margaret and Corey
Sara and Erin Foster
Sisters Sara and Erin Foster
For The New York Times
Jim Jerauld, 66, and his husband Howard Brink, 68 have been a couple for 42 years this September. They moved to Sun City 10 years ago and pose for a portrait in Sun City, Arizona, March 5, 2019.
Singer Pearl Charles
Mom
Elena Turner poses for a portrait at her family home in Costa Mesa, California. She is spending her COVID quarantine from college at her family home.
Singer, songwriter, producer, musician Thundercat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Perfume Genius aka Mike Hadreas, in Los Angeles California
For Huck
Nathaniel Contreras AKA Tabasko Sweet, host of Super Deluxe’s Cheap Thrills on YouTube, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, California.
MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian poses for a portrait with L.O.L. Surprise Dolls at the new MGA Entertainment campus in Chatsworth, California
Mama
Jai Shaun Lewis was 11 when he was murdered. His father Jeff Lewis poses for a portrait at Inglewood Park Cemetery where Jai is buried.
Eva Chow
Eva Chow
For The New York Times
Musician Neelamjit Dhillon
Helen Donahue #metoo
For The New York Times
David Walter Banks
Curtis Hay, 87, plays pool at one of the rec centers with a 96-year-old a couple times a week and “as a matter of fact I won all the games today, but one,” he said. He has lived in Sun City with his wife for 20 years now and said it has everything. He sits in his golf cart in his Sun City driveway.
Lucille Rogers, 85, and Linda Haugland, 63, stand in duck costumes to promote a Duck Race for charity outside of the Lakeview Recreation Center
Identical twin sisters Piper (purple) and Katie, 5, play at McClatchey Park in Atlanta. Piper said the best part about having a sister is “giving my sister hugs and kisses.” Katie said the best part about having a sister is “kissin’ her and huggin’ her.”
Julia Whelan, actor and voice actor
For The Lily
Miss Native American USA Pageant in Tempe, Arizona.
Rapper Young Thug hangs out with friends in Star Status Studio in Atlanta, Georgia before recording a new track.
For FADER
John Doe poses for a portrait at a Buzzfeed studio in Los Angeles, California on July 2, 2019.

Photo by Kendrick Brinson
Emma
Elena Turner poses for a portrait at her family home in Costa Mesa, California. She is spending her COVID quarantine from college at her family home.
Sean Parker, former Facebook president, poses for a portrait at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
For The San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles-based drummer and motivational speaker Mark Schulman stands for a portrait in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California
For Fortune Magazine
Farley Ziegler recently produced Tim’s Vermeer, which was accepted with praise by several film festivals.
For Reed Magazine
Actor Greg Finley
Grindr Founder Joel Simkhai
For The New York Times
Boxer Evander Holyfield, a five-time worldwide heavyweight champion, photographed in Atlanta.
For CNN/Turner
Rabbi Joseph Kaufman, a 39-year Miami Beach resident
For Bloomberg Businessweek
Karen Snyder, 47, enjoys a cigarette during a break from the nearby mental health facility she works at in downtown Braddock, Pennsylvania. Karen moved back to Braddock from California a few years ago. Her mother grew up in Braddock and her great grandfather worked at the steel mill. “I like Braddock,” she said. “I wish it could come back to life. They just knocked four buildings down.”
Allie Van Why jumps rope after a tee ball game in Chugwater, Wyoming
Mary Lou Angel has been a caregiver for her mother Lois Carbajal for 15 years. She cleans and cooks for her mother in Lois’ apartment in Fresno, California.
For Fortune
Chantal
Sue Ketterer, 55, poses for a portrait after doing a swimming demonstration for residents at the Holiday Around the World Celebration in Sun City, Arizona
Sloan Olson, 3, plays outside her family’s apartment in January in oil boomtown Williston, North Dakota. Her grandmother Peggy Adrin said the town has “really changed a lot” since she first moved there 30 years ago. “When we first moved here, there was nothing,” she said.
Rapper Ca$h Out in Atlanta
For FADER
Meghan
Larry Cuppy, 75, at a garage sale on West Peoria Avenue in Sun City. He lived in Sun City for 18 years and moved just outside the city’s border 2 years ago into a trailer. “I wouldn’t trade it for nothing, I really love it here,” he said.
Thundercat
Singer, songwriter, producer, musician Thundercat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
John John Florence
Surfer John John Florence on the beach in Santa Monica.
For The Wall Street Journal
Kellie
Velta Larson and Gene Limbacher pose between round dances at Social Hall No. 1 during a square dance and round dance night in Sun City, Arizona December 8, 2009. The dancing pair are not married but have been dancing together for 16 years.
Ossabaw Island is one of Georgia’s largest barrier islands. It can only be reached by boat and has only a few residents, including Sandy West, the 98-year-old former owner of the island. Mrs. West sold the island to the state in 1978 as a Heritage Preserve, yet still lives there in her family’s historic home. “Who can stand in their front yard and feed eight donkeys?” Mrs. West asked laughing as the island’s donkeys approached her.
Petya and Viktoriya, who are acrobats from Bulgaria, have a unique act where they hang from their hair and spin. There’s no trick to the act, although they both spray their hair wet to make it hurt a little less. Viktoriya is married to one of the show’s motorcycle stuntmen, Andrey Medeiros, and the two have a three-year-old son.
Pedro Carillo, flexes his muscles, before heading into the ring to walk across the high wire with the Toprasta Troupe, from Colombia. Carillo was born in 1947 to a Colombian cowboy. He has been walking across the wire for more than 40 years. He performs the three-tier, 7-Man Pyramid on the High Wire with his troupe for the Cole Bros. Circus.
Artist Ashley Thayer
For Huck
Jean and Ade are both 90 years old and got married at 20. Married for 70 years. “I never thought we’d live this long,” Jean said.

The Sun City Poms
Juan and Imelda Calderon in El Paso, Texas October 4, 2019. Imelda, who suffers from dementia, went missing in November 2018 when she slipped away from her husband at a store and then somehow made it across the Mexico border in Juarez.
David Walter Banks
Young Thug
Young Thug for FADER
Aga Maru
Perry Fisher is working with Attorney Peter Borenstein to try and reclaim money allegedly stolen by his former attorney when he was incarcerated.
For The Marshall Project
Robby Redar, Long Beach
For ProPublica
Tanaïs is a novelist and she also created Hi Wildflower, a beauty and fragrance brand.
Lana Miller designed posters and t-shirts for the Women’s March in Los Angeles and sells them to raise money for charity.
For Elle
Actress-writer-comedian Noël Wells,
Artistic duo FriendsWithYou are Samuel Borkson (left) and Arturo Sandoval III.
For The New York Times
Margaret and Corey
Sara and Erin Foster
Sisters Sara and Erin Foster
For The New York Times
Jim Jerauld, 66, and his husband Howard Brink, 68 have been a couple for 42 years this September. They moved to Sun City 10 years ago and pose for a portrait in Sun City, Arizona, March 5, 2019.
Singer Pearl Charles
Mom
Elena Turner poses for a portrait at her family home in Costa Mesa, California. She is spending her COVID quarantine from college at her family home.
Singer, songwriter, producer, musician Thundercat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Perfume Genius aka Mike Hadreas, in Los Angeles California
For Huck
Nathaniel Contreras AKA Tabasko Sweet, host of Super Deluxe’s Cheap Thrills on YouTube, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, California.
MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian poses for a portrait with L.O.L. Surprise Dolls at the new MGA Entertainment campus in Chatsworth, California
Mama
Jai Shaun Lewis was 11 when he was murdered. His father Jeff Lewis poses for a portrait at Inglewood Park Cemetery where Jai is buried.
Eva Chow
Eva Chow
For The New York Times
Musician Neelamjit Dhillon
Helen Donahue #metoo
For The New York Times
David Walter Banks
Curtis Hay, 87, plays pool at one of the rec centers with a 96-year-old a couple times a week and “as a matter of fact I won all the games today, but one,” he said. He has lived in Sun City with his wife for 20 years now and said it has everything. He sits in his golf cart in his Sun City driveway.
Lucille Rogers, 85, and Linda Haugland, 63, stand in duck costumes to promote a Duck Race for charity outside of the Lakeview Recreation Center
Identical twin sisters Piper (purple) and Katie, 5, play at McClatchey Park in Atlanta. Piper said the best part about having a sister is “giving my sister hugs and kisses.” Katie said the best part about having a sister is “kissin’ her and huggin’ her.”
Julia Whelan, actor and voice actor
For The Lily
Miss Native American USA Pageant in Tempe, Arizona.
Rapper Young Thug hangs out with friends in Star Status Studio in Atlanta, Georgia before recording a new track.
For FADER
John Doe poses for a portrait at a Buzzfeed studio in Los Angeles, California on July 2, 2019.

Photo by Kendrick Brinson
Emma
Elena Turner poses for a portrait at her family home in Costa Mesa, California. She is spending her COVID quarantine from college at her family home.
Sean Parker, former Facebook president, poses for a portrait at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
For The San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles-based drummer and motivational speaker Mark Schulman stands for a portrait in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California
For Fortune Magazine
Farley Ziegler recently produced Tim’s Vermeer, which was accepted with praise by several film festivals.
For Reed Magazine
Actor Greg Finley
Grindr Founder Joel Simkhai
For The New York Times
Boxer Evander Holyfield, a five-time worldwide heavyweight champion, photographed in Atlanta.
For CNN/Turner
Rabbi Joseph Kaufman, a 39-year Miami Beach resident
For Bloomberg Businessweek
Karen Snyder, 47, enjoys a cigarette during a break from the nearby mental health facility she works at in downtown Braddock, Pennsylvania. Karen moved back to Braddock from California a few years ago. Her mother grew up in Braddock and her great grandfather worked at the steel mill. “I like Braddock,” she said. “I wish it could come back to life. They just knocked four buildings down.”
Allie Van Why jumps rope after a tee ball game in Chugwater, Wyoming
Mary Lou Angel has been a caregiver for her mother Lois Carbajal for 15 years. She cleans and cooks for her mother in Lois’ apartment in Fresno, California.
For Fortune
Chantal
Sue Ketterer, 55, poses for a portrait after doing a swimming demonstration for residents at the Holiday Around the World Celebration in Sun City, Arizona
Sloan Olson, 3, plays outside her family’s apartment in January in oil boomtown Williston, North Dakota. Her grandmother Peggy Adrin said the town has “really changed a lot” since she first moved there 30 years ago. “When we first moved here, there was nothing,” she said.
Rapper Ca$h Out in Atlanta
For FADER
Meghan
Larry Cuppy, 75, at a garage sale on West Peoria Avenue in Sun City. He lived in Sun City for 18 years and moved just outside the city’s border 2 years ago into a trailer. “I wouldn’t trade it for nothing, I really love it here,” he said.
Thundercat
Singer, songwriter, producer, musician Thundercat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
John John Florence
Surfer John John Florence on the beach in Santa Monica.
For The Wall Street Journal
Kellie
Velta Larson and Gene Limbacher pose between round dances at Social Hall No. 1 during a square dance and round dance night in Sun City, Arizona December 8, 2009. The dancing pair are not married but have been dancing together for 16 years.
Ossabaw Island is one of Georgia’s largest barrier islands. It can only be reached by boat and has only a few residents, including Sandy West, the 98-year-old former owner of the island. Mrs. West sold the island to the state in 1978 as a Heritage Preserve, yet still lives there in her family’s historic home. “Who can stand in their front yard and feed eight donkeys?” Mrs. West asked laughing as the island’s donkeys approached her.
Petya and Viktoriya, who are acrobats from Bulgaria, have a unique act where they hang from their hair and spin. There’s no trick to the act, although they both spray their hair wet to make it hurt a little less. Viktoriya is married to one of the show’s motorcycle stuntmen, Andrey Medeiros, and the two have a three-year-old son.
Pedro Carillo, flexes his muscles, before heading into the ring to walk across the high wire with the Toprasta Troupe, from Colombia. Carillo was born in 1947 to a Colombian cowboy. He has been walking across the wire for more than 40 years. He performs the three-tier, 7-Man Pyramid on the High Wire with his troupe for the Cole Bros. Circus.
Artist Ashley Thayer
For Huck
Jean and Ade are both 90 years old and got married at 20. Married for 70 years. “I never thought we’d live this long,” Jean said.

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