P&H Cafe co-owner Robert Fortner, who has been getting tattoos since he was a teenager, says that when he started having his face tattooed it was like a new experience.
Dressed as Pinhead from the “Hellraiser” movies, Venus Shannon helps direct traffic on stage during rehearsal for the fashion show at the Anime Blues Con at the Cook Convention Center. Originally dedicated to pop Asian culture and anime, the Anime Blues Con has branched out into gaming, fantasy, cosplay and comics.
Musician Allison Kasper, photographed at the Beauty Shop in Memphis, Tenn., is one of the organizers of GRRL Fest, a rock music festival dedicated to empowering women in the music industry.
A portrait series from the Annual Multiples of America Convention in Memphis, TN. Multiples of America is a support group for parents of multiples to build awareness and raise funds to benefit research, education, and support of multiple birth children and their families.
Tennessee State Representative Johnnie Turner was key in passing civil rights cold case legislation that helped reopen the Elbert Williams lynching case. Turner says that the indignity of being forced to ride at the back of a Memphis city bus as a young student was a major force in galvanizing her decision to join the Civil Rights movement.
Donnie Cook aka. Ricky Murdock poses with his 11-month-old son Triston Cook and the Midsouth wrestling championship belt after a wrestling event Friday night at a converted cargo train depot in Humboldt, Tenn.
Father Nicholas Vieron, 92, who is somewhat retired from Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, will offer his humor-laced teachings, wisdom and ideas to Memphis for at least one more year with a weekly adult Greek class that starts on Martin Luther King Day.
Robert Earhart with Round Table Productions prepares for a demonstration on armored combat at the 3rd annual Mid-South Renaissance Fair. Earhart has been jousting for over 18 years with several injuries including almost being blinded in one eye and temporary paralysis.
Married for over half a century this Valentine’s Day, Wesley and Lydia Moore will celebrate strong mutual faith, nine kids, and 61 years of marriage.
A portrait series of Holocaust survivors living in Memphis.
Optometrist Dr. Linda Tharp, who has run a minority-owned private practice in Midtown Memphis for 27 years, was recently appointed by Tenn. Gov. Bill Haslam to the state Board of Optometry.
A.C. Cox, 85, answers questions about how the Allen Fossil Plant functioned using a large lighted diagram in the conference room at the administration offices. Cox began working at the recently decommissioned plant just after its completion in 1959.
White Station Middle School student Theo Patt is one of only 20 students in the world to win the grand prize in the 2013 Google Code- In Competition, a contest designed to encourage students aged 13-17 to participate in open source coding.
Sammie Bailey, 73, from Coldwater, Miss., listens to the sound of his heart as he receives an echocardiogram at Baptist Memorial Hospital in DeSoto Monday morning.
Portrait series of visitors from all over the country and around the Mid-South area who came to Memphis to participate in events at the National Civil Rights Museum commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
Memphis Fire Dept. Safety Chief Mark Heath rings the bell on an antique fire truck in memory of fallen Memphis firefighters during a memorial service at the Fire Museum.
Walter Bailey, still a practicing attorney at the age of 70, is returning to the Shelby County Commission after sitting out four years due to term limits.
AJ Cash, 10, puts on his patriotic face before the start of the Cordova Community Center's Annual Independence Day Celebration and Parade.
Michael Compton, an English instructor at the University of Memphis, has broken into the screenwriting business with the script for “Carjacked” which he co-wrote with his wife after reading a story in The Commercial Appeal about a young woman who was carjacked and trapped in the trunk of her car.
Worker-turned-union official at the old Memphis International Harvester plant Gene Keenum turns on lights on April 5, 2017, as he talks about the United Auto Workers decision to sell the union hall on Harvester Lane. Harvester retirees have met there monthly for many years, and the building is scheduled to be sold to an auto parts business.