BETH ROONEY PHOTOGRAPHY

Collections: Portraits

Dave Turncrantz and Mike Sullivan, members of the metal band Russian Circles, sit in their apartment in Chicago on April 27, 2008.
   
Pulitzer prize winning author, Michael Chabon's most recent novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, spent 6 weeks on the New York Times best-seller's list and will soon be translated into German.
   
Richard Rooney hunts pheasant in central Illinois.
     
  
Democratic presidential candidate and former Senator John Edwards
  
"I started dressing in drag to feel pretty. My high school years weren't very good as you can imagine, I was very heavy, so I started to do this to feel better. Some drag queens use duct tape to give themselves a more feminine look.
   
Author Eula Biss at her home in Chicago, Illinois Biss is an Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where she teaches nonfiction writing.
     
  
1. Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight.Com, at his home office in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, October 24, 2008. Silver first gained public recognition for inventing a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players. In 2007 he began to publish analyses and predictions of U.S. presidential primaries and the general election.
   
An Indian man and his son outside Mysore Palace.
   
Mac Harvey, 89, at Guntz Beer's office in Lincolnwood, Illinois on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Harvey didn't set out to work in the beer industry. After the former Naval aviator was discharged following World War II, he worked for six years managing a small New York upstate hotel, "getting my bearings and figuring out what I wanted to do," Harvey recalls.
     
  
A member of the Moto Clube Robalos Rebeldes holds Our Lady of Rocio before a procession through the city. The procession stated at the State Shrine of Our Lady of Rocio in Paranaguá, PR, Brazil.
   
Rod Larson on his farm in Emerson, Nebraska. Rod is a semi-retired hog and cattle farmers who has lived in this area his whole life.
   
Gary Becker is an economist and a Nobel laureate. Becker won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1967 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992.
     
  
The Cool Kids, Mikey and Chuck, backstage before their show at the SubT in Chicago, Illinois.
   
, 25, on the University of Illinois-Chicago's Medical campus on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Dr. Alsanea is the author of "Girls of Riyadh," a controversial book that deals with the social pressures four women face in modern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The book was banned in Saudi Arabia immediately after it's original publication because of its controversial nature. Rajaa Alsanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She currently lives in Chicago and this is her first novel.
   
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