Barak Obama - Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO - Democratic National Convention 2008

Sarah Palin speaks to a hand-picked audience for her homecoming rally in Fairbanks, Alaska in early September, 2008 - "It's going to be awesome...getting back in touch with all of you and the great land we call Alaska that God has so richly blessed"

Ted Wade - Iraq War Veteran, sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and transhumeral amputation. Wade remained in a coma for 2 months - near Walter Reed Hospital - Washington, D.C.

Navy Seals Training Op - Coronado Island, San Diego, CA

Air Force Special Ops (AFSOC) - simulated drowning exercise - MacDill Air Force Base. FL

George W Bush greets audience at the Republican National Convention - Minneapolis, MN

Geoffrey Canada - Harlem, NYC

Bart Maelstrom - Polygamist Husband with his four wives and thirteen children - Fairview, UT

Christian Tent Revivalist - Page, AZ

Riak Dut - One of the Lost Boys of the Sudan who ended up in Fargo, ND in the middle of winter in sub-zero temperatures. Fargo, ND - Feb. 2001 for the New York TImes Magazine

Peter Dut - eldest of three brothers of the Lost Boys of the Sudan who ended up in Fargo, ND in sub-zero temperatures - February, 2001 for the The New York Times Magazine

The Lost Boys of the Sudan - in Fargo, ND for the New York Times Magazine - 2001

The "Lost Boys of the Sudan" - Sudanese refugee Riak Dut attends the public middle school near the apartment that he and his three brothers were placed in the frigid sub-zero winter temperatures of Fargo, ND

Ryan Gosling - Canyon Country, CA

Calpernia Addams, transgender woman who was dating PFC Barry Winchell who was murdered in his barracks at Fort Campbell in the notorious hate-crime that led to the passage of the US military policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - at home in Nashville, TN

Justin Constantine - Iraq War Vet was wounded with a gunshot wound to the head in Iraq in 2006. He serves on the board of directors of the Wounded Warrior Project, advocating for medical and mental health treatment for returning Iraq veterans and has been an outspoken opponent of US wars in the Middle East.

John Lewis, Georgia Congressman and Civil Rights Leader - photographed at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN in April, 2008 -standing at the exact location of the assassination Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 40 years earlier (on April 4, 1968)

Air Force Special Ops - Hurlburt Field, Pensacola, FL

Air Force Special Ops (AFSOC) - MacDill Air Force Base, FL

Elden Kidd, US/Mexico Border - from The Legend of Elden Kidd, America's Most Dedicated, Most Creative People Smuggler for GQ Magazine

Elden Kidd and Tim Burraston on the US/Mexico Border - Tecate, CA from The Legend of Elden Kidd, America's Most Dedicated, Most Creative People Smuggler

Nancy - homeless woman - Bronx, NY

Connie - homeless man - New York City

Robert - homeless man - Bronx, NY

Jerry Bruckheimer on set of Deja Vu - New Orleans, LA

"Inward Christian Soldiers" - the children of conservative Christians Stephen and Megan Scheibner are home-schooled in order to avoid any secular influences of the American education system - near Allentown, PA

Homeless camp - Las Vegas, NV

Homeless concierge worker - San Jose, CA

Medical Marijuana Grow Room - Denver, CO

Medical Marijuana - Denver, CO

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Cory Burnell with family - Founder of Christian Exodus - a right-wing Christian secessionist movement at home in northern California

Deer hunter - Bucks County, PA

Lake - Bophal, India

Barack Obama - St. Petersburg, FL campaigning in early 2008 for the Democratic Presidential ticket.

Cory Burnell - Founder of Christian Exodus - a right-wing Christian secessionist movement at home in northern California

Organic dairy farmer - Madison, WI

Katie Beers, who was kidnapped in 1992 at age 9 and held in an underground dungeon for seventeen days - at home in rural Pennsylvania

Gypsy camp - Hyères, France

Hermetic Nun - Madeline Island, WI

Cemetery of Statues - Moscow

The "Buddha Boy" Ram Behadur Bamjan - rumored to be the Buddha reincarnate, this sixteen-year-old boy meditated motionless under a pepal tree in a forest in Southern Nepal for nearly 9 months in 2006 - Bara Region, Nepal

The parents of the "Buddha Boy" holding a photo of their son - Bara Region, Nepal, 2006

Bara Region, Nepal

Stupa - Kathmandu, Nepal

Buddhist pilgrims from all over the region, and from around the globe came to witness the Buddha Boy - Bara Region, Nepal

Ashlyn Blocker - "The Girl Who Feels No Pain" - Patterson, GA. Ashlyn suffers from the rare genetic disorder known as "congenital insensitivity to pain".

Gypsie (Roma) refugee camp - Shutka, Macedonia. Shutka, just outside of the Mecedonian capital Skopia is the only fully autonomous Roma-run town in Europe, with it's own news station, school system and municipal services. Romani serves as the official language.

Gypsie (Roma) woman - photographed in her home in Shutka, Macedonia. Shutka, just outside of the Mecedonian capital Skopia is the only fully autonomous Roma-run town in Europe, with it's own news station, school system and municipal administration with Romani serving as the official language.

Gypsie (Roma) taxi driver - Shutka, Macedonia. Shutka, just outside of the Mecedonian capital Skopia is the only fully autonomous Roma-run town in Europe, with it's own news station, school system and municipal services. Romani serves as the official language.

Elvis, Gypsie (Roma) - Shutka, Macedonia. Shutka, just outside of the Mecedonian capital Skopia is the only fully autonomous Roma-run town in Europe, with it's own news station, school system and municipal services. Romani serves as the official language.

Large Gypsy Family - Refugee Camp - Shutka, Macedonia

Environmental Activist Lawyer John Barry- photographed on the coastline of Louisiana.

Outkast - André 3000 on the video set for "Hey Ya" - Los Angeles, CA