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I have been at an internship with the Courier-Journal in Louisville for three weeks now. It has been an awesome experience so far. I have been pushed and pulled in many different directions and been challenged as a photographer. It has been great! I’m learning to appreciate my mistakes (even though making mistakes literally kills me) because it is best to mess up as an intern (so they i.e. David Harrison and Dustin Strupp, say) rather than as hired staff. Here are some of the photos I have taken** since residing in Loo-uh-val (a pronunciation for you out-of-towners).

I am also currently working on a story that follows a mother who recently lost her husband to a random shooting in the West End of Louisville. The story will focus on the aftermath of gun violence within the community and this family. It will show the struggle of a mother as she has been forced to take on both roles, as mother and father, to her four children. There is one photo of this at the end.

** I have take more photos than this, I just am unable to find them at this time. More to come!

1. Foie gras and apricot confiture at Bistro Le Relais, June 5, 2015.

2.Tracy Anderson, the brother of a local hip-hop artist who was recently gunned down outside of a local club, cries during a news conference outside of University of Louisville Hospital, Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Henry Anderson is still fighting for his life at University of Louisville hospital while Donald “Wreck D. Mic” Mattingly Jr. passed away Tuesday night. No suspects have been named.

3.Bobbi Buchanan, Jefferson Community and Technical College English instructor, addresses one of her pupils’ questions about paragraph structure during the Art for Inmates in Recovery (AIR) program held at the Bullitt County Detention Center, Friday, June 12, 2015. Buchanan views writing as a personal therapy and said that this class has helped the inmates, as well as herself, better understand substance abuse. The writing program is funded entirely through a grant from the Awesome foundation.

4. Kenneth Williams, 52, stands on 4th and Oak in front of the makeshift memorial for Deng Manyoun, the man who was shot and killed by a Louisville police officer, June 15, 2015. Williams said he knew Manyoun personally and recently, with the help of his boss, aided Manyoun financially. Williams was across the street when the killing took place and witnessed the entire ordeal. “[The police officer] killed that boy for nothing,” Williams said, “He murdered that boy.”

5. Jordan laughs during the photoshoot, June 4, 2015. I photographed some behind-the-scenes images for the HerScene Magazine.

6.Tanya Nix, 40, of New Albany, sits with her son Skyler inside their living room next to a smile basket, ready to be shipped to a family with a Down syndrome child in Canada , June 8, 2015. Tanya created Skyler’s Smile Baskets, a private nonprofit, after feeling dispirited when the doctor’s didn’t greet her with a congratulations following Skyler’s birth, a year ago, at Clarke Memorial Hospital. Nix said that the baskets are an ice breaker for doctor’s and nurses to cheerfully greet families with a new born Down syndrome child. “It let’s other paren’t know that it’s okay,” Nix said.

7. Julia Comer is a jeweler and artist in residence at the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts. June 10, 2015. She was selected to showcase her style in an upcoming issue of the Courier-Journal. 

8. Sharon greets her granddaughter with a kiss during service at New Horizon Full Gospel Church, in Louisville, Kentucky, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Sharon’s son, Donald “Wreck D. Mic” Mattingly Jr., was shot June 8, 2015 after leaving a night club and died the next day in University of Louisville Hospital. Donald left behind a wife and seven children, including the one pictured. Efforts have been put together through different avenues to raise money for the funeral, that will be Thursday.