Brett Garamella

Portraits

A local smokes a cigar on a street corner in the Cuban colonial town of Trinidad. Notice his hat: "100%."
   
Jolie, a 5-year-old Labrador, sits in a kitchen in Danbury, Conn. Despite the long stares Jolie gives her owners, she is never fed "people food."
   
A husband and wife pose for a photo near the train station in downtown Bogota on a Saturday morning. They shovel coal all day and return to their home in Ciudad Bolivar, the city's poorest region.
     
  
David Mesa, age 6, plays wiffleball on the beach near his home in San Pedro de Macorís.
   
Chris Martins, a mixed martial arts fighter, poses for a photo taken after a typical workout at the Valko Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy in downtown Chicago.
   
A father places a baseball on a tee for his son in San Pedro de Macorís on the same field where Sammy Sosa played as a child.
     
  
A child blows a clover during the summer at Cornell Square Park in Chicago.