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 A portrait of Sarah Grothjan |  Sam Clayton, a 13-year-old boy with Down syndrome, swims at a Federal Way community center on April 5, 2018. Clayton spends every school day in a self-contained classroom in the Federal Way School District, which is now conducting an audit of their special ed programs. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  The American flag reflects off the windshield of the car carrying fallen Kent Police Officer Diego Moreno's urn on July 31, 2018. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
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 Air Force Staff Sgt. Damien Kent, a cardio-pulmonary respiratory technician, is one of 1,500 students who trained in Cincinnati to join Critical Care Air Transport Teams since 2003. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |  Taylor's still photography became the cornerstone of the Facing Race series' visual branding, featured across promotional materials, show opens, teases and the ongoing Facing Race franchise. |  Maj. Jay Rames, a U.S. Army flight nurse, cares for a wounded soldier during a DUSTOFF medevac flight in Afghanistan on Sept 9, 2014. The Afghan soldier suffered a gunshot wound after insurgents attacked Forward Operating Base Shank in the Logar province. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |
 Alesia Cannady, 63, of Seattle embraces her 2-year-old granddaughter, Aleyiah. She's one of many Washington grandparents raising the kids of their heroin-addicted children, with the hope that one day they will overcome their addiction and take on the parenting themselves. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Sam Clayton, a 13-year-old with Down Syndrome, works on a reading assignment at his Federal Way home. Clayton spends every school day in a self-contained classroom in the Federal Way School District, which is now conducting an audit of their special ed programs. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  A DUSTOFF medical evacuation team unloads a wounded Afghan soldier from their aircraft at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on Sept. 4, 2014. The soldier was one of two injured in an attack on Forward Operating Base Ghazni earlier that day. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |
 A portrait of Sarah Grothjan |  Braedon Hafey, a 7-year-old with autism, climbs a tree at his farm in Olympia, Washington. The child suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, prompted by the his time inside a closet-sized, padded room at his Tumwater elementary school. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Shayla Zartman, 22, of Gig Harbor, Washington is George Floyd's cousin. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 Lucky Mulumba, a U.S. Air Force nurse at Craig Joint Theater Hospital, cares for Aminulla, an Afghan soldier who was wounded in a bomb blast on September 4, 2015. |  Gianna Smith, 6, of Lacey follows a photojournalist around while holding her toy camera on May 7, 2019, proclaiming she wants to be a "princess mermaid reporter" when she grows up. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  A portrait of Chelsea Hernandez |
 Bellevue resident Mauricio Guerra and his 5-year-old son, Sebastian, play a hand-clapping game in front of Mount Hood at Trillium Lake near Government Camp, Ore., on Sept. 2, 2018. |  Shayla Zartman, 22, of Gig Harbor, discusses her tattoo design with artist Daelon Simpson at Project Ink Tattoo Studio in Seattle, Washington on Nov. 6, 2020. |  Taylor's still photography became the cornerstone of the Facing Race series' visual branding, featured across promotional materials, show opens, teases and the ongoing Facing Race franchise. |
 Cape Flattery in Neah Bay, Washington |  A woman salutes as members of law enforcement escort fallen Pierce Co. Sheriff Deputy Daniel McCartney from the medical examiner’s office in Tacoma to Mountain View Funeral Home in Lakewood on Jan. 9, 2018. |  Adrian Brandon, 27, has created more than 50 unfinished portraits of Black Americans killed by police. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 Air Force Physician Sabrina Akhtar transports a wounded Afghan Border Patrol commander who's clinging to life on Sept.12, 2014 in Afghanistan. |  A mother and son watch the tide go out on Dec. 25, 2019 at Devils Punchbowl State Natural Area in Otter Rock, Oregon. |  Chelsea Hernandez at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington |
 Officer Jenifer Eshom is an instructor at the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien, Washington. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Shayla Zartman, 22, of Gig Harbor, Washington is George Floyd's cousin. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  A portrait of Sarah Grothjan |
 Noah Lopez-Legg, a 6-year-old non-verbal boy with severe autism, kisses his mom Lindsay Legg at their Redmond apartment on March 27, 2018. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Javier Tapia, 42, of Tacoma had his leg amputated while incarcerated at the Pierce County Jail in 2019 after a life-threatening infection went undiagnosed. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Sarah Carollo, 7, swims at Sammamish Lake State Park in Issaquah on May 13, 2018. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 Anthony Moran, a 17-year-old non-verbal student with autism, steps off the Mabton school bus on June 5, 2018. He screams loudly, signaling to his mom that he's home. |  A U.S. Air Force pilot flies a Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) mission to an Italian military base to pick up a critically wounded soldier in Afghanistan on September 12, 2014. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |  Ryan (left) and Jake Vandell sit together in the library at Hamlin Robinson School in Seattle on June 1, 2018. The 11-year-old Sammamish twins have dyslexia. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 A portrait of Chelsea Hernandez |  Tens of thousands of marchers descended upon Seattle and other cities across the world on Jan. 20, 2018 for the one-year anniversary of marches in support of women's rights. (Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5) |  Officer Jenifer Eshom teaches a class of police recruits at the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission. Taylor Mirfendereski / KING |
 Taylor's still photography became the cornerstone of the Facing Race series' visual branding, featured across promotional materials, show opens, teases and the ongoing Facing Race franchise. |  Sam Clayton, 13, practices the ukulele alongside his dad, Robert Clayton, at their Federal Way home on April 5, 2018. |  Air Force members training to join Critical Care Air Transport teams are tested as they practice unloading critically wounded patients from a military transport plane on March 20, 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |
 A portrait of Sarah Grothjan |  A mother gets emotional as she watches the honor guard carry fallen deputy Daniel McCartney’s casket inside Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Baylen Armendariz, now 21, was charged in 2019 with abusing her infant twins based on Dr. Elizabeth Woods’ report to authorities. Three outside medical experts reviewed the twins’ medical records on Armendariz’s behalf and concluded that the fractures were likely the result of a mineral deficiency that can lead to weak bones vulnerable to breaks. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 High school students led thousands of protesters in Seattle and in other cities across America on March 24, 2018 to demand tighter gun regulations following recent high-profile shootings. The Seattle 'March For Our Lives' event began at Cal Anderson Park at 10 am with pre-march rallies on Capitol Hill. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Taylor's still photography became the cornerstone of the Facing Race series' visual branding, featured across promotional materials, show opens, teases and the ongoing Facing Race franchise. |  Apartment residents look out their windows Saturday afternoon to watch the Seattle Women's March on January 20, 2018. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 Sarah Carollo, a 7-year-old girl with autism and albinism, eats a bowl of ice cream at her Sammamish home on May 13, 2018. Carollo, a student at McAuliffe Elementary School, only spent time with her non-disabled classmates for 20-to-30-minute visits in the mornings and afternoons, in addition to recess and lunch. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Jim Miller, 62, uses a saw to cut the tree that fell on top of his van when a tornado came past his Port Orchard home on December 18, 2018. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Shayla Zartman, 22, of Gig Harbor, Washington is George Floyd's cousin. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |
 A crowd fills a bazaar on a warm summer afternoon in Tehran, Iran. Photo by Taylor Mirfendereski |  Tom Anglin, 71, of Green Township, watches Firefighter Daryl Gordon's funeral procession outside Oak Hill Cemetery on April 1, 2015. Anglin's son is one of the pallbearers who carried Gordon's casket. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |  Sgt. Maj Raymond Chandler III, the top enlisted officer in the U.S. Army, watches a demonstration of how specialized teams of Air Force doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists work on simulated patients at University of Cincinnati Medical Center to treat wounded soldiers in flight. |
 Hans Schettler, 37, of Seattle carries his 2-year-old daughter Goldie Morris on his back at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle during the Seattle Women's March on January 20, 2018. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Kimberly Perry, lead vocalist of The Band Perry, performs on the main stage on the final day of the Buckle Up Fest at Sawyer Point and Yeatman's Cove on Sunday, July 20, 2014. The country music group was the Sunday headliner at the festival. Taylor Mirfenderski | WCPO |  Members of Ceatl Tonali hold a ceremony outside of Judkins Park on May 1, 2018, hours before the start of Seattle's May Day March. Taylor MIrfendereski | KING 5 |
 A man fishes for salmon from a West Seattle pier as the sun sets on September 14, 2017. Taylor Mirfendereski | KING 5 |  Brent Bielinski, 25, is the CEO of Cincinnati-based NomNom Nation. The smartphone app allows people to fill up their local food bank from their phone. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |  Rob Anderson, a corrections officer at the Clermont County Jail, peeks inside an isolation room to check on an inmate placed on suicide watch. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |
 A U.S. flag flies over Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on September 5, 2014. Taylor Mirfendereski | WCPO |  Air Force members training to join Critical Care Air Transport teams are tested in the back of a military transport plane on March 20, 2014 in Cincinnati. | Taylor Mirfendereski |
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