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  • Eliza Borkholder, 11, watches does inside a pen at the family farm in Bremen, IN, Thursday, June 6, 2013. The family patriarch, Eddie Ray Borkholder, runs a deer breeding operation which is a large part of the family income. Note: This image originally published in 2014.
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  • One of the images that amazed me when I was starting out in photojournalism was an assassination photo in the San Diego Union-Tribune of Mexican politician Luis Donaldo Colosio on the streets of Tijuana. It was made from an angle similar to this photo, and instead of a horrible moment, this photo of Tina Hill Woods, crying as she kneeled by son George Hill who had just been drafted to the NBA in 2008, was pure joy.
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  • I have no idea what went through the mind of this Iraqi boy, but his curious staring at Portland, Ind. soldier James Weaver made an interesting photo from 2008.
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  • A simple photo of eight-year-old Alayzia Blue, posing for a portrait after a school trip to visit a city organic farm in 2010, is one of my favorite images. Sure, I’d like the background to be a little cleaner, especially that branch on her left side, but I’ll take it.
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  • This looks like a photoshop image, but it’s a high angle photo of a bald eagle flying over a giant American flag during a pregame show in 2010’s AFC Finals, won by the Colts, sending them to the Super Bowl.
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  • Blake Fleming, at the time a first grader in 2010, laughs with friends during a slice-of-life photo at Indy’s Crooked Creek Elementary School. It’s always made me happy when I look at it.
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  • In 2010, five-year-old Chesney Allen died after drowning in a retention pond, and family and friends gathered a day later. Usually, such events are closed to media members, but family members allowed us to attend this private ceremony. Images like this are tough to look at, but if a kid is saved in the future by inspiring a fence to be built around a potentially deadly retention pond, it’s worth it.
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  • Photojournalists don’t get paid to root for athletes, but at the risk of offending the journalism gods, I root for Tamika Catchings, who I met in 2001 as she rehabbed an ACL tear before her playing career with the Indiana Fever began. It was a thrill to make this locker room photo of her and teammates celebrating their 2012 WNBA title.
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  • A little story I found involved local sign language student Shyla Keesling (nee Robson) listening to her biological mother’s voice for the first time. She had been given up for adoption at birth, and after a lengthy search, Keesling made contact with her mother in 2014, and is shown here chatting with her mom on the phone from her Indy apartment. It was a story close to me, as I made first contact with my biological father a couple of years earlier.
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  • I don’t cover as much sports as I used to, I’d rather concentrate on longer projects, but I really like the symmetry of this 2015 photo of Colts quarterback Andrew Luck falling on his own fumble during a game against Tennessee.
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  • Every fire fighter I’ve ever met relishes the idea of knocking down big house fires with their crew, and saving every person and pet inside. Helping this scared little dog was a nice moment for Indianapolis Fire Department personnel who used an oxygen mask to give aid after working this fire in 2016.
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  • I don’t do much advertising work, as a journalist I can’t work for clients I cover, but if I’d been doing an advertising shoot for the Red Cross, I’d want to put this on a poster. A day after a 2016 Kokomo tornado displaced dozens of families, Anthony Hicks III, 1, sat with with his family in an improvised Red Cross shelter, at the Kokomo Event Center.
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  • This photo was made on the day of the first interview of Rachael Denhollander, who was the first to publicly blow the whistle on since-disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Here, she is hugged by her husband Jacob at their Louisville home in 2016.
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  • 4/3/05.  NCAA Women's Final Four, RCA Dome, Indianapolis, IN.  (Robert Scheer Photo), file 111232 ----  The Baylor Lady Bears explode off the bench as they go on to defeat the LSU Lady Tigers 68-57 in their National Semi-final game Sunday evening at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis IN.
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  • Amber Harris, 14, dunks on a standard five foot rim.  On occasion, a male classmate will challenge her to a game.  "When I beat them, they'll get mad and say 'play me again,' or just throw the ball down and leave," she said.  Part of a 30th anniversary Title IX portrait project.
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  • Rodney Bruce (left) and George Stone, of Camby, IN, sit in a 12 foot tree stand for more than four hours waiting for the right deer to walk past.  During a controversial high-fence hunting trip in southern Indiana that lets hunters bag game confined in a 100 acre enclosure.
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  • Competitors head toward the water during the 10 meter platform synchronized diving competition at the IUPUI Natatorium.  It's an olympic sport and is part of the ongoing US Nationals.
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  • Well-wishers close the casket of locally well-known gospel singer Robert Turner at the start of a service at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Indianapolis.
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  • NBA official Dan Crawford uses Chris Mullin as a chair after being tripped up by the Pacer forward during second half action vs. New York.
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  • Diana Ingram, middle, hugs her sons, Donte Ingram 13, left, and Veionte Ingram, after the children barely escaped a fire that gutted the family's home near downtown Indianapolis.
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  • Ryan Hammel, who's getting a touchup of spray color applied by his wife Kasey Hammel, both of New Albany, Ind., laughs during the procedure with her outside the day's Beachbody Classic, a physique contest for coaches, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Beachbody Friday, June 22, 2018. The event is part of a weekend-long convention in the city, focused around the company's brand of nutrition and fitness program.
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  • Megan Hovious, 17, finishes Avon High School's performance moments after breaking her nose due to an errant rifle toss from a color guard teammate.  She received stitches at a local hospital and competed again later in the day.  Bands of America Grand National Championship, RCA Dome, Indianapolis.
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  • Mostly Amish students in Raglesville, Indiana, haul around their trophy after beating a group of local high schoolers in a semiannual softball game.
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  • A drunken Chicago Cubs fan is escorted to a waiting paddy wagon.  The fan was part of a throng of people standing outside Chicago's Wrigley Field during their team's game seven collapse to the Florida Marlins for the right to play in the world series.
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  • Jackson, a boxer, plays with one of the last ears of corn on the ground on his owners' farm in rural southern Indiana.
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  • Bantu: "First Faucet"<br />
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Summary:  The Somali Bantu, historically persecuted in their native Somalia, have been immigrating to the United States, via refugee camps in several surrounding countries, for the past few years.  Indianapolis has about 200 people, who arrive regularly, and are being given limited assistance by a local Catholic organization.  <br />
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This image:  Abukar Aden (left) shows the proper operation of a hot and cold faucet to Maryan Mohamed, an item that she is not familiar with.  Maryan Mohamed, her husband, and their two children, are Somali Bantu, and arrived in Indianapolis an hour prior.  Aden has been in the U.S. for several months.
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  • Hopeful leprechauns check their posing before tryouts in front of a about 200 students at a mock pep rally, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Friday, April 20, 2018. Three leprechauns are chosen to represent the school and its cheerleading squad at a variety of games, pep rallies, and events throughout the upcoming school year.
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  • US player Ryan Bailey, in water (#13), applies a choke to Australia's Sam McGregor during rough play around the net.
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  • Peter Langner silk gown, $3,300, and Swarovski crystal necklace, $495, at Bridal Boutique of Carmel.  Model: Paige McCracken/Helen Wells Agency.  Photographed on location at Midland Arts and Antiques Market.  (Robert Scheer/The Indianapolis Star)
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  • A pre-trial detainee on a suicide watch lies in a cell at the Vanderburgh County jail in Evansville on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. <br />
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Since 2010, an average of one detainee has died in an Indiana county jail every two weeks. Many of these people are pre-trial detainees, who have not had their day in court on a variety of charges ranging from felonies to misdemeanors like public intoxication. Suicides play their part, as do homicides, drug and alcohol related issues, and natural causes. But, the problem is growing, and cases of death after neglect by corrections officers are not insignificant.
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  • Inmates in the women's block spend a few minutes getting sunlight and a view of the sky in Evansville on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. The Vanderburgh County jail is one of the larger county jail in Indiana, and has had three deaths---all of natural causes---since 2010.
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  • Wall-mounted cuffs on a wall at the Allen County Jail in Ft. Wayne, Thursday, June 24, 2021. This area is located near an open office, and detainees are sometimes restrained to the wall if a corrections officer needs to turn their back to use the workstation.
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  • A detainee is placed on suicide watch after threatening a cellmate at the Johnson County Jail, Thursday, June 17, 2021. The padded smock features rip-resistant fabric designed to make it nearly impossible to fashion a makeshift noose.
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  • Michelle Snyder talks with an inmate on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, in the Johnson County Jail in Franklin, where Snyder works as a licensed social worker for QCC. The facility hires QCC to provide mental health services, and a large part of Snyder's duties involve evaluating detainees who are undergoing mental health issues.
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  • A corrections officer surveys a large bank of monitors in Franklin on Thursday, June 17, 2021, where the Johnson County Jail is being expanded to increase bed capacity.
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  • A corrections officer checks in on detainees awaiting processing inside Vanderburgh County Jail, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. This facility is one of the larger county jails in Indiana, and has had three deaths—all of natural causes—since 2010.
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  • An inmate reads a book in a single cell in Evansville on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, at the Vanderburgh County jail, one of the larger county jail in Indiana, that has had three deaths—all of natural causes—since 2010.
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  • Family members pay respects to the body of Ariona Darling on Thursday, July 8, 2021, at the Ft. Wayne woman’s funeral. Darling, 18, died by a reported suicide on August 27, inside the Allen County Jail in downtown Ft. Wayne. At the time of the death, the woman joined 11 others who died in this county jail since 2010.
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  • Family members crowd around the open casket of Ariona Darling on Thursday, July 8, 2021, at the funeral of the Ft. Wayne woman. She died by a reported suicide on August 27, inside the Allen County Jail in downtown Ft. Wayne. At the time of the death, the 18-year-old joined 11 others who died in this county jail since 2010.
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  • Channel Bembry visits the Crown Hill Cemetery gravesite of her brother Kerrington Tompkins, on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. The Indianapolis man died two years earlier inside one of the two Marion County Jails. The family has not gotten answers.
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  • Vicki Budd, mother of Jerod Draper, with family members outside the Harrison County Circuit Court where they just settled a $1M civil suit in the wrongful death case of Draper. Draper died in 2018 after being strapped to a chair and repeatedly tased at the county-run jail in Corydon, Ind.
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  • Janice Sweet is looking for justice for her son on Monday, October 21, 2019 at Laura Landenwich's law offices in Louisville. Authorities in Indiana's Clark County Jail said that 37-year-old Christopher Sweet died of heart disease after one day in custody. Sweet has since settled the suit. (Image originally published in 2021).
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  • A newly detained person goes through the intake process in Evansville on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, at the Vanderburgh County jail.
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