Contact Sheet: Kevin Bezon

Kevin Bezon celebrates his 26th birthday by performing an Elvis Presley concert for some his friends at Ave Maria Nursing Home. Elvis is Kevin's favorite musician. Kevin suffers from numerous brain tumors. Since the age of 11 months, Bezon has had 36 surgeries to get the tumors removed. Despite the numerous tumors and operations, Bezon's zest and optimism about life have yet to be slowed. Kevin spends the day at the nursing home while his father, Ron Bezon, runs a soup kitchen downtown. As much as his father strives to keep Kevin upbeat, it is often Kevin who reminds his dad what is really important.

This is another one of my Contact Sheet posts. I couldn't figure which one I liked the most, so I turned in all of these. Let me know which one you think works the best.

Stella & The Yellow Storm

Memphis had a storm front move through the city around golden hour which gave the world this yellowish glow to just about everything. Stella was resting on the bed, waiting to go outside once the front passed on so she could contribute some yellow of her own to the world. It was an interesting storm to watch, color-wise. Most of the golden hour, the sky was this putrid yellow, then as the front passed and some of the blue sky returned, the color spectrum began to normalize. At the last few moments this fierce yellow color returned. Then, almost instantaneously, the sky was the black of night.

Earth & Sky

This portrait is from a photo shoot I did for GoMemphis about a Ballet Memphis performance at the Memphis Zoo.



Caption: (left to right) Julie Niekraz and Travis Bradley perform with Ballet Memphis in “Connections: Earth & Sky," three new, modern short works and will be performed in the grove just outside of Teton Trek at the Memphis Zoo.

Hitchhicker

Going my way?


Parkour


Bracing


Woosh!

CERTifiable

Here are a collection of images I shot this morning from a CERT, Community Emergency Response Team, graduation class where they ran through scenarios of locating and aid victims of a disaster, like a tornado, in internal and external environments.

Spring Cleaning

I want to share some images I shot on assignments from the past couple months as I prepared to clean off my computer and throw these into archives. I've included the captions if want to know what's what.