Musician Katelyn Read for The Mothership.

Samuel and his beloved Bible in Mexico after he was deported. Samuel Oliver-Bruno is a Mexican #immigrant who was living in #sanctuary at CityWell Church in Durham, N.C. since late 2017. The day after Thanksgiving, November 23, 2018, he was lured to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Morrisville for a fingerprint appoint -- part of the process to have a stay on his deportation, and ultimately become a citizen. He was suddenly arrested by #ICE agents, but not after his church community blocked his detention van from leaving the parking lot for hours. Samuel is diabetic, and when he was ultimately deported by ICE they sent across the border with very little insulin, no syringes, or monitor, no cash and none of his personal belongings.

The Calorie Counter for Science Magazine: Portrait of Herman Pontzer, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology in his bubble helmet used for studying human metabolic rates at Duke University.

The Calorie Counter for Science Magazine: Portrait of Herman Pontzer, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology in his bubble helmet used for studying human metabolic rates at Duke University.

René Marie performs during the Duke Performances In The Jazz Tradition series at The Durham Fruit & Produce Company in Durham. For Duke University.

Neon wisteria electric vaporwave utopia study. 2022.

The goddess of light teleports into a field fringed with wisteria. From my climate fiction zine PURPLE NEW DEAL with Lauren Vied Allen.

Grimace, chicken McNuggets and wisteria. From my climate fiction zine PURPLE NEW DEAL with Lauren Vied Allen.

The dark goddess. From my climate fiction zine PURPLE NEW DEAL with Lauren Vied Allen.

Wilderness State Park, Michigan.

Angie Scioli, a civics teacher at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh, N.C. and founder of #Red4EdNC, which helped organize statewide teacher protests across North Carolina in 2018. For Education Week.

Jessamyn Stanley for @mynameisjessamyn.

Jessamyn Stanley, body-positive black-girl-magic yogi. 

Jessamyn Stanley for Lee Jeans.

Promo shoot for Jessamyn Stanley's, body-positive podcast "Jessamyn Explains it All" in Durham, NC.

Portraits of Nugget Comfort founders Hannah Fussell, Ryan Cocca, and David Baron in Butner, North Carolina. For Bloomberg Businessweek.

Portraits of Nugget Comfort founders Hannah Fussell, Ryan Cocca, and David Baron in Butner, North Carolina. For Bloomberg Businessweek.

Fossilized White Shark Tooth Study: Millions-of-years-old Fossilized white shark teeth that I dug out of a creek in eastern North Carolina. My sense of time eroded during the pandemic, but I reconnected to my bioregion through fossil hunting, and those vast geologic timescales in which these animals lived and became extinct put my life in persecutive.

Joslin Simms, mother of Ray Simms. Ray was shot and killed in 2005 in Durham, and his killer has never been brought to justice. Personal work.

Portrait of environmental activist Dollie Burwell, one of the mothers of the environmental justice movement, for a larger package about environmental racism for The Washington Post. In 1982, Warren County passed a plan to create a landfill to bury soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyl or PCB, a carcinogenic oil, which had been illegally dumped along NC roads in 14 NC counties. The landfill was placed in rural Shocco, a small town in Warren County, an hour north of Durham, that was 75% African American. Burwell and others staged sustained protests over the landfill construction which led to hundreds of arrests. The protests got the attention of the larger civil rights movement.

Durham, N.C. Personal work.

The Pamlico Sound whipped up by a strong southwest wind at twilight. Personal work. “For the sea lies all about us… In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea -- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end." - Rachel Carson

The Young Street bridge in Aberdeen Washington, where, as a teenager, Kurt Cobain used to hide and sleep and write music. Personal work.

A middle-school student in Raleigh, N.C., gazes out a school-bus window on March 31. Wake County, like other districts around the U.S., has been struggling to recruit and retain bus drivers amid a national decline in unemployment and rise in wages. For The Wall Street Journal

Tourists run past the graves of Little Pharaoh Payne, a WWII veteran, and his wife, Hilda, which have been exhumed by storm surge. Threatened by sea level rise, the Salvo Community Cemetery on Hatteras Island is also vulnerable to erosion caused by foot traffic, which wears away the sand banks. Locals get irritated when tourists don’t respect the resting place of their ancestors. The cemetery is bound by the Pamlico Sound and the Salvo Day Use Area. Both lie within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which is managed by the National Park Service. But the cemetery is not maintained by the Park Service, but privately owned by the community, which is scrambling to raise the funds to save it. The next major storms threaten to wash it into the Pamlico Sound.

Robbie Fearn, center director at the Donal C. O’Brien Audubon Sanctuary at Pine Island, stands beside a live oak that was killed by saltwater intrusion from rising seas. The property is pressed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound, a shallow estuary that separates the northern Outer Banks from the mainland. Every year, both bodies of water creep a little higher and intensifying storms erode the land. The rate of sea-level rise in the area—nearly one-fifth of an inch per year today—is expected to accelerate, pushing the water level up a full meter by the end of the century. For The National Audubon Society.

Captain Terry Bragg, executive director of Battleship North Carolina poses for a portrait in the flooded parking lot at the U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship National Historic Site. A high tide exacerbated by a king tide and sea level rise caused by human-induced climate change flooded the parking lot. For The Washington Post.

PICNIC Barbecue's Wyatt Dickson and his two custom-built pig smokers. For The INDY Week.

A 2-photo in-camera multiple exposure of Joshua Redman playing with the Ethan Iverson Trio during the Monk@100 festival, celebrating what would have been Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday, at the Durham Fruit and Produce Company in Durham, NC. For The New York Times

A 4-photo in-camera multiple exposure of Joshua Redman playing with the Ethan Iverson Trio during the Monk@100 festival, celebrating what would have been Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday, at the Durham Fruit and Produce Company in Durham, NC. For The New York Times

Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and 2012 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. For Duke University.

A large 5.8 inch Otodus megalodon tooth that I found while fossil hunting in a North Carolina creek. Penny for scale.

COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Duke University.

Under the Trump administration, documented immigrants with green cards but also petty felony records could be deported. One such Vietnamese refugee, and his pregnant wife, for The New York Times.

Left: Tobacco blooms near Wilson, N.C. Right: Catherine Crowe, 23, and Sintia Castillo, 24, who work with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (Floc), which advocates for tobacco pickers in eastern North Carolina. For The Guardian.

Dr. William A. Darity Jr., Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. His career has been devoted to research and scholarship primarily about #reparations for African American descendants of slaves. For The Wall Street Journal.

Bobbie Jones, mayor of Princeville, stands on the levee. Of Princeville's future, "racism cannot stop this," he said. From ORIGINS: Climate Change and Solutions in Princeville, North Carolina, America's Oldest Incorporated Black Town.

Climate advocate William Barber III who heads the Vera Brown Farm Project, the first sustainability hub for the @ruralbeaconinitiative in the Piney Woods community, a historic a tri-racial black, white and indigenous, community near Jamesville in rural eastern North Carolina. For The Margin x The Nation.

Sheryl Bostic is consoled by Dean Padgett as a crowd gathers at the intersection of Taylor Street and Alston Avenue. Kwame Smith guards Dean's cross. Sheryl's mother Doris had passed away the night before and she was stricken with grief. “The greatest sin is doing nothing, it’s the greatest selfishness of all,” he says of people who are indifferent to the plight of others.

Best-selling murder mystery/crime novelist Jeffery Deaver at Coker Arboretum on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For The Financial Times.

Urban ecologist and ornithologist Deja Perkins, a North Carolina State University alum (who is better known as @naturallywild__ on the gram) for a story about birding while Black, and being Black in nature, generally. For NC State Magazine.

Kendrick Ransome and Marquetta Dickens in 2019 in the Tar River at Shiloh Landing, where enslaved Africans were brought ashore to be sold to plantations in Edgecombe County. Dickens and Ransome co-founded Freedom Org, Ransome runs Golden Organic Farm in nearby Pinetops, N.C., and has family connections to Princeville. From ORIGINS: Climate Change and Solutions in Princeville, North Carolina, America's Oldest Incorporated Black Town.

Portrait of Michael Kliën, Professor of the Practice of Dance at Duke University, and director of the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke’s Kenan Institute of Ethics. He compares his work to digging deep into ideas.

Portrait of Michael Kliën, Professor of the Practice of Dance at Duke University, and director of the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke’s Kenan Institute of Ethics. He compares his work to digging deep into ideas.

A vertebrae from a cetothere, an extinct family of Pliocene whale related to modern baleen whales, found in a creek in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Our current atmospheric carbon levels are the highest they've been since the Mid-Pliocene Epoch, 3 million years ago, when eastern North Carolina was covered by an ancient ocean, and whales swam over Princeville. Global temperature increases have been shown to lag behind rising atmospheric carbon levels, so scientists see the hot Mid-Pliocene Warm Period as an imperfect analogue for where our climate and sea levels are headed. From ORIGINS: Climate Change and Solutions in Princeville, North Carolina, America's Oldest Incorporated Black Town.

Wood Thrushes in North Carolina for The National Audubon Society.

Karen Wade and Kelli Evans together for 17 years, and their 3-year-old triplets Evan, Emma and Grady in Durham, N.C. Personal work.

A drone view of the U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship National Historic Site, and its flooded parking lot at high tide. A high tide exacerbated by a king tide and sea level rise caused by human-induced climate change flooded the parking lot. For The Washington Post.

Jessamyn Stanley for ThirdLove Bras.

Thomas and Jo Ann in the home they shared for 16 years, before a developer bought it and evicted them. They struggled to find stable housing for months afterwards. According to a 2017 CBS news report there were 10,000 #evictions in Durham, North Carolina from June 2016 to June 2017, primarily affecting low and fixed-income African American and Hispanic renters in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. #Durham also has an acute affordable housing shortage. Eviction often leads to homelessness and alcohol or drug dependency. From an ongoing portrait series.

Rodeo Dance night at the Tru Vegas Events Center during Founders’ Week in Princeville, 2023. From ORIGINS: Climate Change and Solutions in Princeville, North Carolina, America's Oldest Incorporated Black Town.

Beard contest, Raleigh, N.C. for INDY Week.

Yellowstone National Park. Personal work.

Goldenrod grows on an abandoned farm on South Manitou Island, part of the Sleep Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Personal Work.

Vanessa Merritt, bird nerd and North Carolina State University Caldwell Fellow, at her favorite birding spot, the Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh. For NC State Magazine.

Cruise Scott at the Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg, N.C.. Scott was convicted of breaking into gun stores around eastern North Carolina and trafficking stolen guns up the I-95 corridor. An outtake for an interactive co-produced by The Trace and The New Yorker, which traced the path of the stolen guns and linked them to assaults, rapes and murders across the U.S.

Bob Larson, exorcist. For The Sun UK.

Tim and Sonja Catlett of Progressive Business Solutions for Working@Duke.

Duke University's Dr. Stephen W. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of the Practice, Associate Chair, African and African American Studies Director, Center for French and Francophone Studies, for Die Weltwoche.

Dr. Bill Boulding, Dean of the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. For The Wall Street Journal.