Johanna Z Parks (left) and Anna Horáková pose for a portrait in Vojanovy Sady, a park in Prague, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
Director of Sustainability with the City of Dubuque Gina Bell poses for a portrait at her home in Dubuque, Iowa, on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Pedro Taylor Gudiel and Raue Taylor Gudiel pose for a portrait in Vojanovy Sady, a park in Prague, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
Chief Judge Mark MacDonnell, of the 16th Judicial District, puts on his gown in his chambers at the Otero County Courthouse in La Junta, Colo., on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Rural and remote areas are experiencing a shortage of attorneys and Chief Judge MacDonnell said this shortage is a crisis situation.
Firefighter Megan Wichmann talks to coworkers at a training tower in Cedar Rapids on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Despite self-imposed and external hardships that female firefighters face, Wichmann said she wants to continue serving as a role model in the community, so girls think about firefighting as a career path when they are older.
Iowa forward Hannah Stuelke poses for a portrait during Iowa women’s basketball media day heading into the team’s 2023-24 season at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.
Iowa’s 143-pound Anayka Besco poses for a portrait during the inaugural Iowa women’s wrestling media day in the Feller Club Room and the Dan Gable Wrestling Complex at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Iowa fan Colt Wendell poses for a portrait before a wrestling meet between No. 2 Iowa and No. 1 Penn State in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022.
University of Iowa third-year student Cassidy Banwart poses for a portrait in the Space Place Theater at North Hall in Iowa City on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024.
Coralville resident and Palestinian from the Gaza Strip Yaser Abudagga poses for a portrait at his home in Coralville, Iowa, on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Abudagga has lost 18 family members during the Israel-Palestine conflict that has been occurring since 1948. “It’s really frustrating and it’s really making life miserable for me,” Abudagga said. “…There is no safe place. Bombing is everywhere: south, north, east, west.”
Reverend Mark Timan Perez poses for a portrait with a flag that has traveled through 10 states and 12 parades at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City on Saturday, Sept.11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Perez was a Federal Emergency Management Agent at the time of the attacks in 2001.