Cowboy, Nevadan desert, January 2019
Bull riding studentA young bull-riding student has his helmet adjusted before beginning practice in New Caney, Texas.
RoughnecksRoughnecks, otherwise known as oil workers, pose for a portrait near the Eagle Ford Shale in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
Brandon ThibodeauxPortrait of awesome photographer Brandon Thibodeaux.
James GreenJames Green, founder of FixMyKix. FixMyKix provides a mobile marketplace app for the services of Shoe Restoration and Shoe Art, to promote artistic entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability.
Portrait of Ladue, Missouri residentJane tends to her landscaping.
Sara CampbellSara Campbell, a fellow at UC Berkeley, is one of the 2018 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Gray Fellows.
Beach HermitA beach hermit near the Texas ghost town of Indianola, stands near landscape paintings he made of his surroundings.
Erin ChenErin Chen, a fellow at Stanford, is one of the 2018 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Gray Fellows.
Semajay ThomasSemajay Thomas works out in Stafford, TX at Plex. Thomas, a 21-year-old boxer from West Town with a highly decorated amateur career, finally is well positioned and well supported for a successful professional career three and a half years after being acquitted of a first-degree murder charge that resulted from an incident he actually had no part of.
Alexa ParralesAlexa Parrales, 15, celebrates her Quinceañera with family and friends in Houston, Texas.
Simon SanchezPearland, Texas municipal worker Simon Sanchez poses for a portrait.
Sarah CortezSarah Cortez is a part-time cop and poet/writer. Her collection of poems, "Cold Blue Steel," is all about being a cop in Houston -- the bad parts of town, near misses, deaths, funerals, and especially the daily flavor of Houston's streets.
Shrimp net repairmanA shrimp net repairman mends a net in Freeport, Texas.
Giulio DraettaGiulio Draetta, Ph.D., M.D., professor in molecular and cellular oncology, and co-leader of the Moon Shots Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
FishermanA fisherman hauls in a huge catfish from the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in East Texas.
Luca ParmitanoPortrait of European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, of Italy, in Houston at Johnson Space Center.
Matt StandridgePilot Matt Standridge will compete in the Cybathlon using an exoskeleton from the University of Houston's Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory designed to help people with paraplegia to walk.
Andrew FutrealAndrew Futreal, PhD, Professor, Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Leslie RussellA portrait of cancer survivor Leslie Russell for Conquest magazine, a publication of the MD Anderson Cancer Center.