Sharon Steinmann - Photojournalist

Moments

  • Charlie Simmons, 8, and his mother Frances Simmons, 36, cool off in PWA Creek Thursday in Newton, Texas. She has been taking her four children to the creek almost everyday to cool off and bathe since Hurricane Rita swept through East Texas and knocked out power.
  • Alina Van Epps, who is wheelchair bound, is evaluated by rescue personnel at Ball High School as she waits to be evacuated on Galveston Island in Texas on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 after Hurricane Ike. She rode out the storm in her flooded home and suffered a blow to her head.
  • Lucresia Tocoj Sunún, 33, left, and her brother Roman Tocoj Sunún, 23, tend to their field of carrots in mid-August in the Guatemalan highlands near Concepción.
  • Firefighters work to extinguish hot spots and remove brush about one mile east of Emigrant Gap off Interstate 80 in the Tahoe National Forest in Nevada County, Calif., on Tuesday, August 14, 2001. More than 1,000 firefighters fought the blaze named the Sierra Nevada Gap fire which was initially reported on Sunday and burned over 2,000 acres by Tuesday.
  • Students at Giselle's, a beauty academy in Caracas, Venezuela, learn how to walk and pose on a runway. Classes start for girls as young as five and many hope to become models or beauty queens.
  • Clerk Ali Khan, a devout Muslim, takes a break to pray in his Valero gas station store in Houston, Texas.
  • Hannah King, 4, of Buna, Texas is covered with cool cloths to treat heat exhaustion and dehydration at a small triage clinic set up in the Buna Volunteer Fire Department after Hurricane Rita left the town without power.
  • A Surfer in Galveston braves the choppy surf brought on by Hurricane Humberto off the gulf coast on September 12, 2007 in Galveston, TX.
  • Dogs collide at high speeds during a race at the Mobile Greyhound Park in Theodore, Ala., on Wednesday July 23, 2014. The facility is one of only two racetracks in the state and revenue the Mobile County Racing Commission collects is at it’s lowest point in the track’s 40-year history.
  • A patient at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas carries his decorated Christmas tree to his room. Over 100 trees were donated by a local florist.
  • A boy is pictured in his cell at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention facility in Biloxi, Mississippi.
  • Carl Lejsek of Silverhill, Ala., who is participating as an ordinance sergeant, rests at the Union camp on at the end of the first day of the 150th Battle of Mobile Bay commemoration at Fort Morgan in Gulf Shores, Ala., on Friday August 1, 2014.
  • Emilio Jimenez, 3, of Houston, Texas plays in the lobby of Pediatric Prosthetics Incorporated where he was waiting to be fitted with his new myoelectric prosthetic arm. Emilio's arm was was torn off in an accident in December. His new prosthesis will be able to read brain signals which will allow the prostheic hand to open and close.
  • A game attendant displays one of her prizes as she waits for the next player at the Greater Gulf State Fair in Mobile, AL on Oct. 25, 2013.
  • An Italian Greyhound sits in a patriotic-themed luxury suite at Rover Oaks Pet Resort in Houston. Rover Oaks boards pets in luxury suites fully equipped with a TV.
  • Stephanie Laurino, a 17-year-old contortionist from Argentina, prepares backstage for her performance Circo Hermanos Caballero in Dallas, Texas. She is a fifth generation circus performer.
  • Mormon trekkers try to get warm by the campfire just after arriving for the night after a 6-mile journey in the rain through the Sabine National Forest. They were re-enacting the experience of settlers on the original Mormon trail.
  • Victoria Hopkins, 23, dances to music as family members gather for a vigil for Bill Lamond Hopkins, who at age 21, was shot and killed at the Roger Williams Public Housing complex in Mobile, Ala., a year earlier.
  • Jesus Francisco Ordoñez of Chihuahua, Mexico, left, waits in a holding cell with other men at the Border Patrol Detention Center in Naco, Arizona in July 2004 after he was caught in the Arizona desert crossing into the United States illegally. Romero was given a rosary and Virgin of Guadalupe pendant by family in Mexico to keep him safe during his journey across the desert. He has a guaranteed construction job in Kentucky and a family to support in Mexico. {quote} We come here to work,{quote} he said, vowing to attempt to re-enter the country illegally as many times as it takes. {quote}We don't come here to harm anyone.{quote}
  • Barn owls cluster in their cage at the Wildlife Rehab & Education center in Houston.
  • The family of 29-year-old Raymond Smith, who was fatally shot by a Houston police officer, reacts at the scene in the Acres Homes neighborhood of Houston.
  • Maria Guadalupe Olalde, far right, mourns the death of her husband with her family in the Dallas, TX home of her in-laws. Her husband, an ice cream vendor, was murdered during a robbery near his ice cream cart in Dallas. Thieves had been targeting the vendors who are mostly undocumented immigrants with no legal recourse.
  • Anibal Rodriguez De Souza, 73, was interned at the Colonia Antonio Aleixo leprosarium in Manaus, Brazil in 1948 when he was just 9-years-old. When he finally left in 1974, he managed to find work in sales, married and had three children. Pictured, he rests on his bed in the leprosarium, returning for two months of treatment.
  • Phillip Bee, 5, center left, makes funny faces with Jerry Xiong, 6, as they relax with their family on their front porch in Marysville, Calif. The porch provided a shady spot for the boys to enjoy the late afternoon as temperatures reached 94 degrees.
  • Julio Hernandez leads the congregation in song at Thursday night services at Iglesia Bautista La Gran Comision (Great Commission Baptist Church) in Morristown, Tennessee.
  • People walk on the outside of the water wall at Williams Tower on December 19, 2008 in Houston, TX.
  • Moments
  • Juvenile Detention in Mississippi
  • Displaced
  • The Prancing Elites
  • Video: Kanye West at the Harris County Jail
  • Modern Day Slavery
  • Harris County Sheriff's Office
  • AIDS in Honduras
  • Maria and Rocky
  • Manaus
    • Manaus
    • Leprosy
  • Oak Island after Ike
  • Venezuela
    • Chavez Mania
    • Election Day
    • Maria Lionza Pilgrimage
  • Video: Regenerative Rancher
  • Story: Mobile's Prancing Elites dance team set out to do 'their own thing' despite challenges they face
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