Pi Kappa Alpha rider Chase Van Halen warms up on rollers outside of turn three during Little 500 Team Pursuit at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Sunday, April 9, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
A rider from Sigma Phi Epsilon competes during Little 500 Team Pursuit at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Sunday, April 9, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Margo Price performs on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at The HI-FI in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by James Brosher)
Kappa Alpha Theta’s Grace Bennett, right, leads riders in a heat of Little 500 Miss-N-Out at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Saturday, April 1, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Women’s riders line up at the start/finish line before a heat at Little 500 Miss-N-Out at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Saturday, April 1, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Alpha Omicron Pi rider Ali Oppel warms up on rollers for Little 500 Individual Time Trials at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Kappa Delta’s Maggie Maier makes her way through turn two during the Little 500 Individual Time Trials at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Kappa Alpha Theta riders Rachel Brown, left, Sydney Keaton and Evelyn Malcomb react after qualifying for the Women’s Little 500 at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Saturday, March 25, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Sigma Chi rider Tim Ryan, left, dismounts the bicycle as he exchanges with teammate Nick Faupel during Little 500 Qualifications at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Saturday, March 25, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Back in August, I photographed a few of Indiana University’s Olympic swimmers after they returned home from the Rio games. I had the opportunity to shoot their portraits for IU social media after a media day availability. Our social media folks were looking for standard shots of each of them holding their medals. After I got that specific shot with each swimmer, I quickly shifted and shot these portraits. I don’t believe they’ve been used before, but it’s an example of shooting something for yourself after you’ve got “the shot” at a shoot. For better or worse, I use a very similar lighting setup on most of my portraits. This setup was an attempt to break out of that. I hung an octabox directly above the subjects and lit them primarily while standing in front of a mostly-collapsed umbrella to try to mimic a ring flash look.
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Blake Pieroni, USA
Lilly King, USA
Kennedy Goss, Canada
Michigan’s Conor Youtsey celebrates a win against Minnesota’s Ethan Lizak in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Wrestling Championships on Saturday, March 4, 2017, in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by James Brosher)
Michigan’s Myles Amine competes against Wisconsin’s Ryan Christensen in the 174-pound consolation bracket of the Big Ten Wrestling Championships on Sunday, March 5, 2017, in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by James Brosher)
Zeng Shao Tung, a dancer from the Focus Dance Company, rehearses with fellow company dancers and IU students at Indiana University Bloomington on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. More than two dozen dance majors from Taipei National University of the Arts are spending a week of cultural exchange at IU Bloomington. The group’s visit culminates in a joint performance with the IU Contemporary Dance Program on Feb. 24 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
IU senior Sydney Sizemore, right, shares a laugh with a partner from the Focus Dance Company during a class at Indiana University Bloomington on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
I recently photographed the first family of Syrian refugees to resettle in Indianapolis for a story in The Washington Post. The story focused on refugees in Indiana and how they are coping since President Donald Trump’s election. Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence, tried unsuccessfully to ban Syrian refugees when he was Indiana’s governor.
Waed Al-Hamoud, 35, kisses Selena, her 1-month-old daughter, at the Exodus Refugee Immigration offices in Indianapolis, Indiana on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. In 2014, Al-Hamoud and her family fled Damascus and resettled in Indianapolis. They were the first family to relocate in Indianapolis from war-torn Syria. (James Brosher for The Washington Post)
Riders practice pack riding during Little 500 Rookie Week at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
Ski Club Cycling rider Megan Huibregtse, right, a member of the riders council, instructs riders during Little 500 Rookie Week at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (James Brosher/IU Communications)
