May 22, 2015

I came to The Baltimore Sun via an internship in the late 1980’s and shortly there after was hired to work for the paper’s suburban editions. The process by which I produce and deliver images has evolved over the years beginning with processing film and making prints – to shooting with digital cameras and transmitting images with computers and broadband. But in truth what I do is essentially the same. I look for visual content that contains moments, emotion and design for The Sun and baltimoresun.com. Sometimes I find it.

: In October of 2010, this was one of two remaining cemeteries on Holland Island. A third had disappeared under the Chesapeake Bay. The last house on the island had collapsed after strong winds brought it down, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In December of 2010, Mary Satterfield, left, Darryl Faulkner, center, and Tonya Faulkner, right, grieved the loss of family members who where among the six people who died in an early morning two-alarm fire in east Baltimore. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In August 2010, Antwan Newton, 10, is one of the Camp St. Vincent, New Horizons campers happy to see the Patterson Park pool reopened. This and other pools located in parks opened at noon that day. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In January of 2010, women had a lively discussion with a man with a bullhorn speaking to the crowd at the food distribution site of Catholic Relief Services (CRS). CRS was providing food from USAid Food For Peace and the site is set up at the former Petionville Club, a golf club converted into a refugee camp following the earthquake that struck the island. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: The hill by the pagoda in Patterson Park attracted thrill seekers in February of 2010 even as winds whip and snow continues to fall. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: A bee on a rose in the Memorial Rose Garden to John Cook at the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens in Druid Hill Park on a Tuesday morning in October 2010. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In May of 1998 three young men who were hit by an out of control vehicle lie on the sidewalk in the 2600 block of Harford Road. A southbound Yellow Van Service LTD Crown Victoria hit a car at the intersection of Gorsuch and Harford Road, jumped the curb and struck five people before stopping a block away on the corner of Homestead and Harford. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: New Era Education, Inc. is a 22-year-old preschool that has an afrocentric focus. L-R Brittany bellamy, 6, and Sasha Walker, 5, share a laugh before their afternoon nap with another classmate in February of 1999. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: The United States Naval Academy Class of 2002 cheer as the Blue Angels flyover the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium during their graduation exercises in May of 2002. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In September of 1997, Kaye Yarrell holds her son, Jerrell Milliner, close before saying goodbye to him at Dulles Airport. Milliner is going to Kenya to spend eight months in the Baraka program for middle school aged boys having trouble succeeding in Baltimore City schools. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: On Saturday April 25, 2015 a protester jumps on top of a Baltimore City police car on S. Eutaw Street near Oriole Park while on the way to a rally related to the death of Freddie Gray. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In April of 2012 Amand Rosas, 17 months, seems unsure of what to make of the giant Easter Bunny as she and her mother Cintya Casiano, Baltimore, have their picture taken. They were attending the annual BonanZOO at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In August of 2012, Jaedyn Fitt, 4, clings to her father, Justin Fitt, during a opening ceremonies of the new school year and new school building at Leith Walk Elementary. Justin says his pre-k daughter “Just doesn’t want me to leave.” Baltimore city officials, joined by state and local political and education leaders, kick off the first day of school at Leith Walk Elementary, which will welcome students to a brand new $32 million, state-of-the-art building this year. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: An unidentified niece of deceased firefighter Andrew Hoffman stands next to Baltimore City firefighter/paramedic Michael Hineline as pallbearers carry her uncle’s casket to a hearse outside Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in November of 2013. Hoffman and his girlfriend were killed by the woman’s former boyfriend, a Baltimore City police officer. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Andy Zittrauer, 20, Columbus, GA, 12th Company, crawls through a muddy trench as he works his way through the Wet and Sandy event during Sea Trials in May of 2011. Naval Academy plebes test their physical and mental skills while working as a team during Sea Trials. The 14 hour challenge helps to reinforce their bonds as a company and class as they end their plebe year. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In May of 2006 Maria Chaconas of Baltimore, girlfriend of jockey Ryan Fogelsonger, hangs onto her hat prior to the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes. Her hat was made by Leah Chaer of Laurel. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In January of 2000, James Wood, Wood Meats, uses Bullock’s slaughtering floor to butcher goats he sold to jobbers and area residents. He is not employed by Bullock’s but has an arrangement where he butchers their steers on Mondays and in exchange he uses the facilities to process his goats on Wednesdays and Thursdays. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In March of 1997, Gladys Mena, a member of Bancos Comunales, a community bank, works in her husband’s business as well as running her own kiosk in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, where she sells sweets, food and beer. She started the kiosk business, her main job, eight months ago. Her husband, a tailor, is also a member of the community bank. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In September of 2012, Kyron Curry, 10, wears headgear with a flag motif. The words “Mass Destruction 9/11/2001” accompanies an image of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Curry was born on that day. Curry trains in the ring of the UMAR Boxing Program, Inc. on North Avenue. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: On Hooper’s Island, MD, in November 2013, Timothy Devine, Easton, owner of Barren Island Oysters, checks on oysters that he started growing June. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Althelia Nettles woke up to flames and smoke in her home at 1923 E. Hoffman St. early this morning on October 27, 2006. The fire broke out just before 4 a.m. and claimed the lives of two men living there, one was Ernest Hickman, Nettles’ first cousin. She estimates seven people in the house at the time. Nettles lost two sisters in an electrical fire 23 years ago. Her mother died earlier this year. She identifies the other victim as Robert Hunt, who she tried to help. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: On May 1, 2015, Rev. Pamela Coleman (right) prays with Baltimore residents at the corner of West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue after charges were brought against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: On the eve of Veterans Day November 2000, Rick Walsh, Catonsville, visited his brother’s grave at the Baltimore National Cemetery. His brother, Louis M. Walsh, Jr., served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and died in 1996. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Tarik Williams, 23 months, calls to his sister from the stairway of his family’s home in the 900 block of N. Patterson Park Avenue in January of 2000. Tarik lived with his extended family in a rented house that needs extensive repair. At the time both he and his four year old sister had lived there since birth and had been exposed to lead. His blood lead level had doubled in six months. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Two people ran hand-in-hand up a hill as they were motioned toward the food distribution area set up on the grounds of the Petionville Club, a golf course turned into a refugee camp in January of 2010 following the earthquake that struck the island. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was distributing 55 pounds of bulgar, 15 pounds of lentils and a gallon of oil to each ticket holder. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In July of 2013, Alexander Mustafa, with back to camera, embraces (facing camera) Karriem Saleem El-Amin outside Baltimore Courthouse East after El-Amin and several inmates convicted of murder are released. Mustafa, who had been in prison, but has been out for 17 years, met El-Amin while they were incarcerated. The men just released were convicted before 1980 and the Court of Appeals ruled jurors had been given improper instructions. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Edgar Jones, Baltimore Ravens, asks for and gets hugs from, left to right, Rykeira Crowell, 10, Janae Taylor, 10, London Franklin, 10, and Katonna Floyd, 11, fifth graders at City Springs Elementary School in October of 2010. They stopped him to ask for directions to their next event and he looked over a map with them. Fourth and fifth grade City Springs Elementary School students are participating in The Amazing Race Ravens Style at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. The event is part of the NFL’s “Play 60” campaign to get kids to be more active. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Diann Marshall, Hyattsville, MD, originally from Trinidad, was the Queen of the Band in July of 2013. She marched with Richard’s Carnival, a group based in Washington, D.C, in the Annual Baltimore/Washington One Caribbean Carnival. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In August of 2007, Dickson Henry, captain of the Maryland Cricket Club, eyes the Cider Mill Cricket Club batsman he is facing as he bowls during a light rain. Their match was delayed 90 minutes until it was determined the pitch at MCC’s home field at Stella Maris could be uncovered. A local team that has a passion for the second most popular sport in the world next to football (soccer) is the Maryland Cricket Club. The club began in 1969, one of five teams to found the Washington Cricket League. Now, members of the Washington Metropolitan Cricket Board, they play one day cricket in matches that can last six hours or more. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In January of 2008, Rodney Strong, 30, shed a tear as he remembered his neighbor. Strong is standing across the street from where the man shot himself in the 800 block of Jack St. According to police, the man had applied for a job at a South Baltimore asphalt company. He returned this morning and shot a supervisor in the leg. The shooting stemmed from a dispute over a minor car accident last week in the company’s parking lot. After that incident he returned home and took his own life. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In Soweto, South Africa hundreds protest against a government effort to move approximately 14,000 families out of Thembelihle, a squatter camp in Soweto. Nine hundred sixteen families would be able to stay. The rally took place in October of 2002 and was organized by the youth of Thembelihle, which moved on to two houses where members of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, illegally connected two houses to power lines. They plan to hook up others to electricity in defiance. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In February of 2007, fox hunting hounds jumped the gate and maneuver around Huntsman John Tabachka who took a spill on the ice. Tabachka, with Greenspring Valley Hounds, takes the club’s dogs out for a trek to give them some exercise. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In May of 2000 Casey Hause, 3, had elevated lead levels just as her mother Barbie Kress, 31,had when she was a child. Casey was first tested when she was a year old. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In December of 1997, Donald Lohman pours molten steel onto anodes to seal aluminum rods to carbon blocks in the Eastalco Aluminum Company, Frederick, MD. This is part of the process in producing the carbon anodes. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Philadelphia police remove protestors from Arch Street near 12th Street. In August of 2000, several people sat in the middle of the street as part of a protest of the dealth penalty and the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal. They were cuffed with flex cuffs and taken to police vans. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: September 6, 1995 was the first day of school for George Washington Elementary School students. Justine Jones, 6, joined her first grade class in singing “America, the Beautiful” following the Pledge of Allegiance. Her great-grandmother had volunteered at the school for 25 years and her grandfather attended the school. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In February of 2012 early morning sunlight skimmed across the bay waters silhouetting the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Police position themselves in the alley behind a house in the 1200 block of Lombard Street during a raid in March of 2011. More than 30 people were arrested in connection with a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation. Of those taken into custody was Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, the actress who played “Snoop” in “The Wire” TV show. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: On January 1, 2011, Caroline Trowbridge and Devon Minarik, both of Hunt Valley, kiss as they were photographed at the Baltimore National AquariumIn in front of the dolphin exhibit. They were married earlier and are having a round of wedding photos taken. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Several boys huddle around a fire to keep warm in the Motsoaledi squatter camp in Soweto, South Africa, at dusk. In October of 2002 it was winter in South Africa and some of the boys were in shorts and bare feet. Households in the informal settlement rely on coal and wood to heat their homes and cook with so in the early morning and late evening hours a haze rests over the encampment. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Native people gathered for the opening ceremony for the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall on September 21, 2004. Jorge Medina, San Jose, CA, a member of the Mexica (also called Aztec), was framed by his kopilli (headdress). (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: In Silver Spring, MD, Investigators looked for clues among wrecked Amtrak and MARC cars. The car with the side stripped away (center left) is the MARC car where several passengers were killed in February 1996. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Washington D.C. United soccer team played host to San Jose in their season opener in April of 2004. (#9) United’s Freddy Adu, tumbled over Jeff Agoos after fouling the defender. Adu was making his pro debut in the second half. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: John Hind Jr.,Freehold, NJ, waited as Maryland Transportation Authority Police investigated the scene of an accident. He was the driver of the truck resting on top of a Mazda MX2. The truck and car collided on the Eastern Ave exit ramp off I-95 south in August of 1996. The driver of the car, Elmira McLaughlin, Pikesville, was taken to Bayview Medical Center. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Baltimore Sun staff photographer Kim Hairston. (Jeffrey F. Bill/Baltimore Sun)

Captured moments: Baltimore Sun photographer Kim Hairston

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