Against the Odds

Against the Odds is a multimedia project produced by the reporting students, studying at the Missouri School of Journalism, for Vox magazine.

Against the Odds is a multimedia project produced by the reporting students, studying at the Missouri School of Journalism, for Vox magazine (http://www.voxmagazine.com/AgainstTheOdds/).

I was called in to do the portraits for both the web as well print versions. Over a period of one month, I shot portraits for eleven of the twelve stories. Of those 11, 10 of them are part of this project. Each of these individuals have different stories and each one of them is a fighter in their own right.

For example, Hannah Hartley’s parents were told she would not live past a year of age but she just recently celebrated her 18th birthday. Michael Middleton was the first African American law student at the Univeristy of Missouri in the racially charged 1960s. Gretchen Maune lost her sight at the age of 24, yet she managed to become a graduate student in public policy and an advocate for the blind.