Columbus, Ohio, USA

Hannah Mahmoud on her high school graduation day, Columbus, Ohio, 2016.

Jankibai, a Hindu widow, Vrindavan, India, 2006.

Preacher Pete Woods, Bradshaw, West Virginia, 2016.

Pastor Mack Wolford, Matoaka, West Virginia, 2011.

Tawanda Chabikwa with sculptures – molded from his own face – that explore the Yoruba concept of Ori, or the head as the house of the spirit and divinity, Columbus, Ohio, 2019.

Pearl Dawson, a Pentecostal Sign Follower, Brushfork, West Virginia, 2016.

Virginia Petroski, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 2014.

Missionary John Dillon, Mecca, California, 2013.

A Christian street evangelist with a shofar, a traditional Jewish ram's horn, at the Republican National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, 2016.

Vincent Troesch, Louisville, Kentucky, 2015.

Wiccan priestess Debbie Hess, Louisville, Kentucky, 2015.

Tarot reader and spiritual counselor Adam Beaubois, St. Louis, Missouri, 2019.

"New Monastic" John Barrieau at PAPA Festival, Nottingham, Pennsylvania, 2011.

Micah Naziri, a protester at the Republican National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, 2016.

Christian truck driver Pete Douglas, Twinsburg, Ohio, 2016.

Priest with the Orthodox Church of America, St. Louis, Missouri, 2019.

Cowboy preacher Richard Wagner, Columbus, Ohio, 2013.

Psychic, The Plains, Ohio, 2013.

Shawn Reilly, a Native American veteran, at the Monroe Independence Day Pow Wow, Sardis, Ohio, 2015.

Assorted Portraits

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