2022 Portrait-Personality

Portrait of a girl Ekaterina who is undergoing cancer treatment. Moscow, Russia.

Wazir Nazari, a member of the Shiite Hazara minority, sits for a portrait taken with permission from her family in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 10, 2021. Her father, Abdul Rezaq Rezaie, said she had been shot in the head in early July by Taliban fighters going door-to-door in their village in the Malistan district of Ghazni province, a month prior to their rapid advancement and overthrow of the Afghan government.

Musician and MacArthur fellow Tyshawn Sorey at the Rothko Chapel in Houston on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Sorey has long cited composer Morton Feldman's "Rothko Chapel" as the most influential piece of music upon his own. Da Camera is bringing Sorey to Houston for its Spring 2022 concert series.

"Emmaculate Awino Oginjo, who lives in one of the most disadvantaged and marginalized areas of Kenya's capital Nairobi, waits before a boxing combat at a gym in Nairobi, Kenya on March 31, 2021. Emmaculate Awino Oginjo is part of Boxgirls Kenya, an organization that teaches girls and young women how to box as a way to empower them while building self-esteem and promoting self-defense. The training and mentorship that these young women receive goes beyond learning how to throw a good hook or a jab, they also receive leadership and skills training, sexual and health education and entrepreneurship training. Its purpose is to us boxing to create a world where women and girls from disadvantaged areas lead healthy and dignified lives in secure communities, where are valued as equals and have control over their sexuality and economic development."