faces + personalities

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  • pvc042109d/4-21-09/fetch. This is "Harley" a two year old male chihuahua mix, with an impound number of A1555541 at the east side animal shelter, photographed Tuesday April 21, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • Artist John Nieto stands for a portrait next to a stuffed coyote he sometimes incorporates in his paintings, photographed near his Albuquerque, N.M. home Saturday Jan. 26, 2002. (AP Photo/Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)

  • pvc120909e/12-9-09/biz. Sheri Milone (CQ) CEO of Lovelace Women's Hospital, poses for a portrait Wed. Dec. 9, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc060409b/6-4-09/arts. Singers (L-R) Dianna Hughes, Bonnie Watts, Jackie Zamora, and Susan Clark, pose for a portrait Thursday June 4, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc112409a/11-24-09/arts. Glass artist Xavier Zamarripa (CQ), holds one of his pieces aloft for a portrait Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvc082509a/8-25-09/arts. Artists Howard Wexler, left, and Deanna Wagoner, right, pose for a portrait at Howard's studio, photographed Tuesday August 25, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvcBDMINTON2/6-29-07/SS. Jerrett Koenigsberg (CQ), left, and his wife Hanniah Morgan (CQ), right, who met while playing badminton and later got married, just competed in the Senior Olympics in Louisville, and pose for an American Gothic esque portrait at Manzano Mesa community center Friday June 29, 2007. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcSAMABORT1/8-31-05/JP2/TRENDS. Portrait of Sam Adams (CQ, no kidding), a mother of six month old twins, poses for a portrait for the SAGE piece on abortion, photographed Wednesday Aug. 31, 2005. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc082109a/8-21-09/asec. Pete A. Gonzalez (CQ) age 88, is a WWII veteran and a Bataan Death March survivor and is photographed at his Albuquerque home Friday August 21, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • Independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, poses for a portrait during a campaign stop in New Mexico Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008.

  • pvcBRIDEGROOM1/9-2-04/JP3/ASEC. Russian cats "Pepsi" (CQ), left, a female dressed as a groom and "Barsik" (CQ), right, a male dressed as a bride, sit on a carriage, photographed Thursday Sept. 2, 2004. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcshanecube1/1-12-03/jp3/trends. Rising above chaos Belen sculptor and renaissance man Shane Shane Shane (CQ), stands for a portrait in the inner space of a mock-up of a piece he's working on while holding three dimensional components of the piece, photographed at his Belen, N.M. home Sunday Jan. 12, 2003. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • Aaron Hernandez, age 17, a student at Highland H.S. in Albuquerque wears a Mexican flag bandana over his face while attending an immigration rally in downtown Albuquerque, N.M., photographed Monday April 10, 2006. (Ap Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)

  • pvc123009a/12-30-09/asec. APD officer Dierdre Candelaria (CQ) turns to give retiring police horse "Duke" a kiss Wednesday morning at the APD mounted unit stables Dec. 30, 2009. Duke served with APD's mounted unit since 1996 and is a percheron draft horse. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc102009c/10-20-09/asec. Artist Patrick Dougherty stands in front of one of his works in progress at Bosque School Tuesday Oct. 20, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc081309c/8-13-09/asec. Indian activist Ward Churchill (CQ), poses for a photograph with a cigarette in his mouth outside the UNM Law School after he spoke at the "Think Outside The Bomb" conference, photographed Thursday August 13, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvcBZERBY1/12-8-05/JP2/RR. William Zerby (CQ), of Rio Rancho, who is the New Mexico Yoda of wood turning, looks at a goblet he turned from a chunk of green sycamore on his lathe during the photo shoot for Mike Davis' article, photographed Thursday Dec. 8, 2005. (PAT VASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM/JOURNAL)