Mylan Cannon | Photojournalism

Bogging

Two children stand and wait for a mud bogging truck to come through a mud pit May 1, 2010 in Coolville, Ohio.

Mike Cassels

Mike Cassels, 47, sits in his living room in Athens, Ohio while watching NASCAR April 2008. Because of psoriasis, a chronic skin disease, and back problems, Cassels has not worked since 1999. “I can’t bend over for five minutes without my back hurting” said Cassels. Athens, Ohio had an unemployment rate of 5.6 percent in April 2008.

Roy Hargrove

Roy Hargrove performs at the Celebrate Brooklyn concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, New York, June 24, 2011.

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Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL, July 16, 2011.

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Hodgy Beats, left, and the Syd from Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All perform at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL, July 17, 2011.

Cuts

A crowd protests against Mayor Bloomberg’s $208 million budget cut proposal to social and public city services near City Hall Park, June 14, 2011.

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Protesting in response to a global financial crises and in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, hundreds descend near Hotel de Ville in Paris, France saturday afternoon Oct. 15, 2011. The Protest in Paris takes places during the same time as several others all around the world in an effort to display outrage against economic inequality.

Donald Houston

Donald Houston (left) poses with his younger blood brother, Dyjon Bowers. At the age of 9 years-old, Houston and his brother were separated and put into the foster care system after their parents we’re found to be using crack cocaine. Houston and his brother grew up in separate foster families but lived within minutes of each other. “It just seemed like there was different stages of my life where I was just getting comfortable with the people I lived with and then ‘Wake up Don, you got to go somewhere again,” Donald said.

N.Y. Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage

After Same-sex marriage was legalized in New York, couple Patricio Chicaiza, left, and Athony Vazquez are married by Judge Charles Troia at Staten Island Borough Hall Clerk’s Office building in Staten Island, N.Y., July 24, 2011.

Ride Along

While patrolling Central City, New Orleans, Police Officer Lazono Black stops and talks with resident Shelia Rodrigeuz May 21, 2009. Officer Black is a part of the 6th District Police Station and patrols Garden District, Central City and Magazine Street making police presence known and responding to dispatcher calls.

College Green

Ohio University Students gather on College Green to play music October 22, 2008.

Pichfork Music Festival

The crowd listens to artist Merrill Garbus known as tUnE-yArDs as she performs at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL, July 15, 2011.

Union Square

A woman skates in Union Square Park in New York, N.Y. October 22, 2010.

Egypt Revolution

President Obama speaks on the resignation of Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, in the White House Grand Foyer Feb. 11, 2011. “By stepping down, President Mubarak responded to the Egyptian people’s hunger for change,” said President Obama.

Phil Bates

Ohio University quarterback, Philip Bates talks with wide receiver coach, Dwayne Dixon before the Ohio versus Ohio State football game September 19, 2010. This game was the first game that Bates played since his injury in the Wofford game. “(Before the game) I was excited” said Bates. However, O.U. was unsuccessful in beating O.S.U. O.U. lost 43-7. “It was a difficult game for us”, said Bates.

TriggerTyme

David Cuculic leans out his bunker while playing a recreational game of paintball at TriggerTyme Paintball LLC in Columbia, S.C. February 2, 2008.

Trenton Steel

Minor league footaball quarterback E.J. Nemeth is paid $150 a game to be the Trenton Steel’s quarterback, plus a bonus for a victory. By day, he works at a hay farm in Cranbury Township, N.J.

Jacobs

Professor of audio production at Ohio University, Lowell Jacobs, has a jam session in his UnionArts studio. Jacobs makes alternative and instrumental music with other musicians in Athens, Ohio.

Rodney

Rodney Jamison pauses after his cousin smears cake icing on his face while he celebrated his seventeenth birthday during a party on July 21, 2007.

Leila

Youth from the Lelea Orpans Center in Geita, Tanzania look through a picture album and laugh together during a visitation from missionaries from a Columbia S.C. church, First Northeast Baptist, June 5 2007.

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Isaiah Gomes (center) is a part of a youth organization in Massachusetts called Crossroads for Kids that facilitates a youth leadership development program called C5 New England. The five-year program seeks out youth who demonstrate leadership potential and who are growing up in risk-filled environments. As a third year teen in C5, Gomes and other C5 teens went on a two week trip to Wyoming where they participated in activities like tours of Yellowstone National Park, white water rafting, rock climbing, and a weeklong backpacking trip through the back country. “This is like a once and a life time thing” said Gomes as he drifted down a river in Yellow Stone National Park.