Jenny Stratton

An almond orchard in Corcoran.

Carla Bolen sits in her housing at a motel turned into housing for homeless residents as part of Project Homekey in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2023. Bolen was previously living in a homeless encampment at the Figueroa Street viaduct above Highway 110 in Elysian Valley Park.

Brigit Garcia, 28, of the Colombian group, Mi Tiera Colombiana, performs during the 47th annual Carnaval Parade in San Francisco, on May 25, 2025.

Part of the Berkeley Varsity Flag Football team poses for a group photo on Sep. 13, 2023. Girls Flag football became a sanctioned high school sport in February 2023 in California, following other states like Florida, Alabama, and Nevada.

Tantay Tolbert holds her son and poses for a portrait in Richmond on June 16, 2020. In March of that year, the Homeless Prenatal Program in San Francisco offered her a hotel room for 90 days, and this became Tolbert’s first step into stable housing.

Almarissa Segura, 14, rides the school bus with her two sisters, Paloma, and Irma Segura on March 31, 2022. Their father, Fred, is the bus driver, and they travel 85 miles each way from home to attend San Antonio Elementary School in Lockwood.

Alfonso, 12, is part of a traditional Oaxacan dance group from Farmersville that performs the Danza de los Diablos (Dance of the Devil).

Jessica Scheiner looks for unhoused people in the Watsonville Slough during the annual point-in-time count on Jan. 29, 2026, in Watsonville.

Shanita poses for a portrait July 17, 2022, at the 38th Anniversary Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo in the City of Industry. Introduced to the rodeo by her husband 15 years earlier, she has attended annually since losing him to COVID-19. She says she feels uplifted by the environment and everyone’s kindness.