Lisa Krantz Photography

Singles

A nun makes her way through the late afternoon light falling on St. Peter's Square after a Novemdiales Mass, one of nine memorial masses for Pope John Paul II, in Vatican City, Rome.
  
Although Bantu women must only wear the hijab if married, even the youngest girls copy the traditions their mothers maintain. Halima Abdirahman Weliyo, 6, wears the shaash dango as she plays with her fellow Bantu neighbors.
   
Key West, FL
     
  
   
Fatuma Isak Ukash, a single mother of three, navigates her cart during her first trip to a Wal-Mart Supercenter in San Antonio, TX.
   
     
  
Evacuees wait for help at the Convention Center in New Orleans on Friday, September 2, 2005. As the sun set, the crowd knew they would spend at least one more night at the makeshift shelter.
  
Jail Unit for the Mentally Ill, San Antonio, TX.
  
Elvin Smith dries his car, "Dollar Bill," at Dollar Bill Detail in San Antonio, TX on a Sunday morning. The shop and Smith's car, which he shows in lowrider events, is named after his friend who was shot and killed ten years ago. "When I win they ask me how did I think of my name (for my car)? I tell them 'my homeboy.'
     
  
Allison Poorman, 8, left, waits for the Southwest Florida Children's Theater float to enter the parade route on Third Street South while Talia Medina, 8, and Tucker Capp, 10, get situated higher up on the float during the Diamond Jubilee Parade on Tuesday night in Naples. The children's theater group participated in the parade to promote their Christmas show, "Goldilocks and the Christmas Bears."
   
  
Bobby Welsh of Gillette, WY, escapes from a bull after he was bucked during the Bull Riding Finals at the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo.
     
  
Nicole Melchior kisses her daughter, Moriah McNeil, 9, at their home in San Antonio, TX, days before she slipped into a coma due to the brain tumor that claimed her life two weeks later.
  
Waiting in line for Santa's Soul Day. San Antonio, TX
   
Erin Spence, 17, struggles as she gets stuck between steers, including her own, Spot, right, as she waits for them to urinate for drug testing after they won awards at the San Antonio Livestock Show. Lauren Grisham, 10, left, waits for her steer, Sparky, to go.
     
  
Troy Tallent takes a break from playing his music on Royal Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans on Saturday, September 3, 2005, almost a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
  
  
Drag Show. Naples, FL.
     
  
Bus Stop. Santiago, Dominican Republic.
  
Saturday morning market. Santiago, Dominican Republic.
  
The youth of the congregation prepare to parade through Triumph Church on Easter Sunday in Naples, FL.
     
  
Juan Torres pauses on his bicycle outside "La Mexicana" a predominantly Mexican grocery store in Immokalee, FL.