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Portrait photographs | Christopher T. Assaf

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  • Author Stephen Dixon's first book, a collection of short stories, was written on a typewriter and published in 1976 when he was 40. That is all he has ever used, even for the 30 since. Considered a "writer's writer" who obsessively chronicles his own life in his many novels, he is retiring from Johns Hopkins University where he has taught creative writing for many years. He lives in Towson with his wife, Anne, who finally asked her husband to stop writing about his every reaction to her debilitating illness.
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  • After spending many years working as a photographer for the Art Institute of Chicago, a retired John Mahtesian has published a book of his photographs made in neigborhoods during his travels.
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  • World Literature Today — Jan/Feb 2022 — Cynthia Leitich Smith, author in Austin, TX. Winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. (Photo by Christopher T. Assaf/ctassaf.com)
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  • Twins Kristen Horsman and Kate Horsman play lacrosse for Dulaney High School. They will separate as they go to different colleges.
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  • Marilyn, Keene, N.H.<br />
Bronycon, Baltimore Convention Center. <br />
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"As a little girl I always played with My Little Ponies," Marilyn of Keene, N.H. said. "I am dressed as Princess Luna, she's my favorite princess. I decided to go full body because it was a challenge for me. I wanted to be that cosplayer that doesn't quite look the same as everybody else." Marilyn did not want to use her last name.
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  • The 88-year-old Studs Terkel, standing in the living room of his Chicago home, spent much of the his career discussing all aspects of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, and the working folks of Chicagoland. The oral historiam spent 45 years on the air at WFMT radio. He alsi authored the seminal "Working."
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  • Dr. Geoff Schoenbaum, 36, had a big 2003. He saw his second son born in February, got a professorship at Univeristy of Maryland in May, opened his first lab during the summer and won a $1.5 million grant in September. In August, the journal Neuron featured his research on the physiology of memory in the brain on its cover.
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  • Actor and bongo player Matthew McConaughey during a promotional tour for the movie "Sahara." McConaughey traveled the United States stopping at theaters to promote the summer blockbuster.
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  • Djimon Hounsou, starring in The Island, photographed at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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  • Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs photographed at the Ravens headquarters in Owings Mills.
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  • Paul and Rochelle Callender left Chicago for the pastures of eastern Iowa to fulfill their dream of living on a farm and raising their four children in the country. One barn, of the many, on the century-old farm they purchased has become a favorite place of 6-year-old Samantha.
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  • Many surfers say the best waves in Ocean City only occur during the winter. Toby Gilbert, Ocean City, participated in the 2005 Frozen Surf Open, sponsored by the Eastern Surf Association.
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  • John Danzer is a Baltimore native and garden furniture designer. He has created the Munder-Skiles exterior design studio in New York.
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  • For two years, Justin Johnson, 13, has traveled from his home in Hammond,<br />
Ind., for weekly cello lessons at the Sherwood Conservatory of Music in downtown Chicago.
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  • "The good Lord spared it for a reason, it's mine and I don't want it to walk off," Lee "Leo" Jordan said of his home and belongings on Rodenburd Avenue, a few steps from the breach in Biloxi, Miss. He did not stay in his home during Hurricane Katrina, but plans on remaining there even though there is no power or water.
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  • Samira Salmassi lives in a persistent vegetative state. Her ex-husband, who was living with her and their three children, attacked her in their home.<br />
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In 2005, Ghafour "Billy" Asemani, 38, walked into Howard County police headquarters and told the officer at the front desk that he had killed Salmassi, 38, the mother of his three children, that morning during an argument in which he struck her with a tape recorder and "placed his hands around her neck," according to court records. The argument began when Asemani confronted his ex-wife about telephone conversations that he had taped of her speaking to other men.<br />
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Asemani is serving a 30-year prison sentence for the attempted murder of Salmassi. They were divorced in 2001 as he served time in prison. She had welcomed him back into her home after he was paroled for healthcare fraud. The three children have been taken care of by friends, and attended the Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania.
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  • Tyrek Hodge, 11, was trying to attend the Ravens' Super Bowl celebration at M&T Bank Stadium with his mother, Tiffany, when the two got caught up in a stampede outside the stadium and the boy was seriously injured. Tyrek, a Ray Rice fan, suffered a concussion, an injury to his and eye and several lacerations.
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  • After surviving the anthrax and pneumonia, David Hose says, "I'm on three heart medications. I have asthma. I'm extremely weak." Unable to climb the stairs, he spent much of his early recovery on the couch of his Winchester, Va., home. Two years after the anthrax mailings halted delivery and killed several people, the former postal manager spends much of his time taking numerous medications and battling the government and his insurance agency for coverage.
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  • Poet Sterling Plumpp has published 12 volumes of poetry and earned several prestigious literary awards. But an initial $20 purchase of lottery tickets soon turned 61-year-old Plumpp into a millionaire. He plans to retire from his position with the University of Illinois-Chicago and live off the lottery winnings.
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  • Barry Lashley, 45, Baltimore, construction worker.
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  • Traveller Laura Holland's favorite place is the open road. Photographed for the Baltimore Sun Travel Survey.
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  • Reactive Nano Technologies co-founder Tim Weihs is developing Nanofoil, a technology he helped create at Johns Hopkins and is an example of "tech transfer" — taking possible products out of universities and developing them for the market place. Nanofoil allows reaction activation which can occur by a directing a localized small pulse of electrical, optical, or thermal energy which causes a localized heat up to 2000°C in thousandths of a second.
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  • Laure Drogoul, previous winner of the Sondheim Prize at Artscape, is curating a show of installation and performance artists for this year's festival. One of them is Tim Scofield, maker of Aerial Sculpture, who has his studio at MICA's Mt. Royal Station Building.
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  • Growing up near Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore, Esther McCready knew by the age of 8 that she wanted to be a nurse. However, she needed the help of the courts to gain acceptance to the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Aided by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she gained admittance in 1950, becoming the first Black student to attend the school. She graduated in 1953.<br />
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A display case in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History dedicated a display case to items she donated. McCready died in 2020 at the age of 89.
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  • Commercial real estate advisor Sydney Machat at his farm in Keedysville, Md. The barn dates back to before the Civil War, and was used as a hospital during the conflict.
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  • It was Veteran's day when Lee Ann Doerflinger, of Silver Spring, lost her son as he fought in Iraq. Thomas Doerflinger was killed in action on Nov. 11, 2004, while serving in the battle of Mosul, Iraq.
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  • Cornelius Owens rapped with friend Deshaun Jones only days before the 15-year-old  Jones was shot and killed while standing near a group of adults participating in a dice game on West Fayette Street in Baltimore. The two had spent a lot of time together, writing rap songs, recording together, and telling the story of their lives in Baltimore.<br />
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Had Owens not been working a day-labor job, hauling junk and abandoned mattresses out of an East Baltimore yard, he said, he would’ve been with Jones that fatal summer night.<br />
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“Probably would be a victim myself. Probably wouldn’t be standing here,” he said.
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  • Acoyea Booze, 19. <br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Ameer Smith, 19.<br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Arnold Smith, 18.<br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Shawn Nelson, 17. He was attacked and stabbed multiple times on Feb. 5, 2015.<br />
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Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Ed Schrader, artist and showman, in the Metro Gallery where he hosts "The Ed Schrader Show," a late-night television spoof. He has a self-professed, unhealthy obsession with David Bowie.
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  • King Lear "Riotous Knight," portrayed by Rod Brogan, in the Baltimore Center Stage production of Shakespeare's King Lear. The bit-part actor portrays several parts in the production.
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  • Former Baltimore Behavioral Health services patient Chris Lubold, 29, spent two months in 2009 living at the rehabilitation facility. Trying to kick a heroin and prescription pill habit, he found he was able to buy drugs near the Southwest Baltimore facility and that rules were not throughly enforced.
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  • Photojournalist Bill Eppridge spent much of 1968 photographing Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign for Life magazine. Forty years later, as the anniversary of Kennedy's death at the hand of an assassin approaches, he has released "A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties." Eppridge made the iconic image of Kennedy, on the ground after taking a bullet to the head, held by anguished busboy Juan Romero.
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  • Hoodies are in fashion: Brian Wright in the lobby of Baltimore's The Belvedere wearing his favorite style of clothing, a hoodie sweatshirt.
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  • A former high school music teacher from South Carolina, Joseph Young is the first recipient of The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's conducting fellowship co-sponsored by the Peabody Institute. He will make his first appearance conducting the overture in Mozart's The Magic Flute.
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  • The man behind the scenes of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, chairman Buddy Zamoiski.
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