
Left to their own accord during a class break, Kindergarten students from the Agua Azul elementary school walk along the school's path at the edge of the jungle.

“I didn’t see girls with my type of hair growing up,” said WKU senior, Indygo Ray, who believes that natural hair is not seen as professional in society. “Learning about my hair just made me feel at one with myself and free and beautiful,” said Ray.

Patrick Wood of Francisco, Ind., is entrapped in his truck after crashing while driving north on the William H. Natcher Parkway, after a blown tire caused his semi to nose dive into the ditch on Monday, May 2, 2016, between the northbound and southbound lanes near the Nashville Road exit. ¨I was stuck under the steering wheel,¨ said Wood as he was tended to by a fire fighter. Wood was pulled from the truck by a police officer and left with only minor injuries.


Much hangs in the balance for Rafey Wahlah, a senior at Western Kentucky University. Wahlah, the current president of the Pakistani Student Association at WKU, will graduate this spring with a degree in Political Science and hopes to return home to Lahore, Pakistan where his family resides but has also begun to seek out work in the United States while he is still eligible under the OTP student visa work program that allows foreign college students enrolled in US schools to begin their careers in the US for a short time in hopes of being selected for an H1-B visa, the first step in the green card process.

At the end of a long day at The Big To Do music festival, concertgoers are seen sleeping under the lights of a silent disco. The second and last year of the festival took place on a farm at the edge of Warren County, Ky.

Rija Wahlah and her mother at their family home in Lahore, Pakistan.

On the road in Lahore, Pakistan

Uvita, Costa Rica

While crowds of people push past one another to and from the bleachers lining the main road, one girl perches herself momentarily on the street corner to peer into the children's parade. Cuba's Carnival celebration occurs over the course of a week at the end of July and boasts of being the largest of its kind in the Caribbean.