Barbecue man Wyatt Dickson stands in an aisle at Tractor Supply in Hillsborough. He’s searching for the right pintle hitch so that he can haul a 12,000-pound trailer to Elm City, a little hamlet outside of Wilson. There, he will retrieve the two 2,500-pound BBQ smokers of which he’s dreamed. His highly anticipated new Durham […]
Justin Cook
Bio: Justin Cook is a staff photographer at INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/justincookphoto
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Photo Journal: Amendment One is dead, life goes on
I met Kelli, Karen and their 3-year-old triplets in 2011 when I photographed them for a portrait series about same-sex couples just before Amendment One banned same-sex marriage in North Carolina. We’ve kept in touch ever since, and I photographed their wedding on the 20th anniversary of their relationship. Tell me about the ceremony. Kelli: […]
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Thousands of mourners gather in Chapel Hill to remember slain Muslim students
FROM LEFT IN SPOTLIGHT: Parents and siblings of Deah Barakat, including his sister, Suzanne Barakat; father, Namee Barakat; mother, Layla Barakat, and Suzanne’s husband, Zubair Jandali talk to reporters as thousands gathered for a vigil and memorial for shooting victims at The Pit at UNC-Chapel Hill Craig Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill has been charged […]
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(‘Aa’ila) Family
Nija McKay, a Muslim, wept during an “Adhan” or Islamic call-to-prayer at Duke Chapel at Duke University on Friday, Jan. 16. Hundreds of students and supporters filled the quad in solidarity with Duke’s Muslim students as the call to prayer was broadcast from a radio on the chapel steps. After pressure from the evangelist Franklin […]
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Southside trick or treat
Durham’s ever-changing Southside neighborhood celebrated Halloween at the community center on Enterprise Street. I noticed fewer trick-or-treating children stopped by to get candy than on last Halloween, but those that did posed for a portrait.
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Remembering Jaeden Sharpe
Jaeden Sharpe was 9 years old when he became Durham’s first homicide victim of 2014. Last January, he was shot and killed on Lucas Drive. On Friday, Oct. 3, family and friends celebrated what would have been Jaeden’s 10th birthday.
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Funeral directors: “stop the violence”
Kicking off the annual Funeral Directors & Morticians Association of NC meeting, about 25 hearses from funeral homes across the state caravanned through Northeast Central Durham to CCB Plaza in downtown during a Stop The Violence Rally. The rally was sponsored by the association, the XI Chapter of Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity and the […]