![]() Moss, 58, to stage four renal cell carcinoma and other complications on June 5, 2022. “And I won’t give up, not until God calls me home.”ĭUSK TO DUSK 2023 - 2nd PLACE ESSAY - ANNIE BARKERīreanna Moss, 27, lost her mother, Kay B. “Not many people have a heart like I do,” Fryman said. But that won’t deter him from his mission: to clean the streets of Cynthiana and make some honest cash. ![]() Fryman gets short of breath, and legs frequently buckle and give out. No one bats an eye when Fryman bends over a trash can. ![]() People stop their cars on the road to give him cans and businesses leave them by their dumpsters. Cynthiana has no recycling system, and Randy’s business helps Tommy make ends meet.įryman is well-known in the community. Seven days a week, Fryman walks around town, averaging 10 miles a day, to pick up cans and other goods to sell at Randy’s Odd Jobs Recycling Center to supplement his disability check, which he receives for epilepsy. 24 cans a pound, 50 cents for a pound of aluminum at Randy’s Odd Jobs Recycling Center. Even with the rope tied around them, they are too big for the cart, extending over a foot over the railing of each side of the cart.įryman’s life is a numbers game. Oh, and the chief offenders, two metal pipes. We start with a partial inventory of what's in Tommy Fryman’s shopping cart, drenched in rain on this stormy Saturday in downtown Cynthiana: over a hundred crushed soda cans, a new pack of diapers, a new window blind, a pool noodle, and 4 pizza pans. Today, the spirited competition brings student photographers and a host of professional photographers together for a weekend of mentoring and talks while documenting the lives of people in the Harrison County community. Along with clarifying the name and duration, Boyd's Station wanted to create a full and exciting weekend event most convenient for student photojournalists to come together as a group, and celebrate photojournalism by both creating work and talking about photographs in a place that brings emerging photojournalists together with professionals. The competition name change to Dusk to Dusk 24-Hour Student Photojournalism Challenge in 2023 is a true reflection of the 24-hour photo challenge window bringing a clear and defined timeline and scope to this competition. The poem “Where I’m From” by Kentucky poet laureate George Ella Lyon was the announced theme in 2018 and the 2019 Boyd’s Station Dawn to Dusk Challenge theme “Today” was announced to the invited student photographers and Boyd’s Station Reinke Grant recipients inviting them to document and interpret the theme during the 24 hours with public judging of the submissions by a group of visiting professionals at Rohs Opera House in Cynthiana, Kentucky on Sunday, July 14, 2019. ![]() That concept morphed into the Boyd's Station competition with a theme announced just hours before the event for the student photographers to interpret - in their visual essay and words. The original concept by Michael and Arden was to invite friends to come to Harrison County for a friendly photo shoot-out. ![]() DUSK TO DUSK 2023 - “PICKING UP THE PIECES” What started as a friendly photo challenge among the Boyd's Station Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling recipients Arden Barnes and Michael Swensen and invited friends in 2018 has now grown into the Boyd's Station Dawn to Dusk Student 24-Hour Photojournalism Challenge photographing Harrison County and bringing student photographers together to photograph Harrison County during on a specific 24-hours in July 2023. ![]()
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