Portraits

Portrait of an alumna and climate communicator.

Dress rehearsal for Arbor Falls in Roberts Theatre March 8, 2023.

A portrait of chess grandmaster, Grigoriy Oparin, for the university magazine highlighting the team's future trip to the national competition.

Texas Tech student Ian Middleton stands at the bar in the Blue Light where he works as a bar back in Lubbock, Texas. Ian is a musician, photographer and videographer graduating in May as a part of the Texas Tech centennial class. 

Sparks fly as a theater student uses a grinding tool to build sets.

College student, Courage, tunes's his guitar during during rehearsal. 

I've recently been photographing the production of Rent for our university. On this particular day, I had planned to photograph students working on the set when I stumbled upon Mac, the student lighting designer, with the grid lowered and hanging lights. I thought it was a perfect moment to capture a portrait with Mac with the tools she uses to create art. 

Brenda Moore, PhD, a University at Buffalo associate professor of sociology, wrote a letter to Oprah Winfrey in 1996 to share news with the talk show host about the publication of her book, “To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II.”

She never received a response.

The letter likely never made it past a production assistant or might have otherwise been lost amidst the overwhelming volume of mail addressed to Winfrey in the early digital years of the mid- to late-1990s, when email was still a novel curiosity.

Moore recalled that story shortly after learning that Oprah Winfrey would be part of a cast, headed by Kerry Washington, to star in the forthcoming Netflix film “Six Triple Eight.”  

Written and directed by Tyler Perry, “Six Triple Eight” dramatizes the contributions of those who served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the subject of Moore’s book. The Army charged the battalion with sorting millions of pieces of backlogged mail intended for the roughly 7 million U.S. service members and civilian personnel stationed in Europe toward the war’s end.

Discovery of new archival material allowed Kelly Hayes McAlonie to develop the first full portrait of Louise Blanchard Bethune’s trailblazing career in the male-dominated architectural profession.

A student honored as the ceremonial St. Patrick is pulled through town and to campus.