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1800w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_1-640x426.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jamma Balkum, 8, the son of the late Jamen Balkum, dances while surrounded by friends and family at the 30th birthday celebration for his father in Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 14, 2023. 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DeaVoghn Hernandez-Ruffin was shot and killed on June 18, 2012, when Za\u2019Ryah was only eight months old. The pair visited DeaVoghn\u2019s grave to mark Za\u2019Ryah\u2019s 11th birthday. \u201cIt just hurts,\u201d says Vega. \u201cI know what it was like not to have my father around for a period of my life. Like he was active, very active. But then he went to prison for 10 years and I yearned for him. Like I literally yearn for him. So to have him and lose him. That hurts but I knew I was getting him back but to know that my daughter doesn&#8217;t even remember a hug or kiss anything from him that bothers me and it bothers her so badly.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Third Place: Maya Giron<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_3-640x426.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Victoria Pierce dances on her friend Mara Nannini at the Northside Festival, part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Pa. The 63rd annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, is a ten-day festival of live performances and visual arts centered in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh from June 3-12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honorable Mention: Georgia Pressley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-1800x1013.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM1-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Children line up in order of height before being assigned to teams at a Chautauqua Softball League Kids Pickup Game on June 30, 2022 at Sharpe Field. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:68px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honorable Mention: Vincent Alban<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-1800x1198.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/nppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FEA_HM2-640x426.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The day after he was killed, friends and family of Raymond Walls Jr., cheer as a dirt biker performs a burnout on his bike in honor of Walls at his makeshift memorial site at the corner of Lyell Ave. and Whitney St. in Rochester, N.Y., on Sept. 4, 2022. When a fellow rider dies, motorcycle and dirt bike riders come out together to the site of where they died to perform burnouts as a tribute. Walls, 27, who went by the name Ray Ray Bae, was killed at the same street corner the night before. 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