IGNITE organizers preview an immersive art, light, video and sound installation at MAD ARTS in Dania Beach, Fl. for its annual five-day free event showcasing multiple artists' installations in Fort Lauderdale.
The Miami Heat's Udonis Haslem photographed during media day 2017.
Ray Feis, the younger brother of Parkland school shooting victim Aaron Feis, got a tattoo of his brother's football jersey number from when he was a player at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. "Aaron was always there, he had my back the same way I always had his back," says Feis.
Behind the Mask Portrait Series of South Florida medical workers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Deja Antoine of Cardinal Gibbons High School is a Sun Sentinel all county player for 2017.
Fort Lauderdale-based author Diana Abu-Jaber
Pablo Marco, a South Florida dancer and choreographer, runs the Developing Dreams Foundation, a non-profit offering music, dance and arts programs for underserved youth.
Keyanna Warthen of Fort Lauderdale High School is the Sun-Sentinel's basketball Player of the Year in 2016.
Ballet dancers rehearse for a performance of Carmen
Cimafunk, a Grammy-nominated Cuban musician known for mixing funk and hip hop with Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music,, performs at a show in Hollywood, Fl.
Cole Sumner, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, got a tattoo in honor of his friend Joaquin Oliver who was killed in the Parkland shool shooting in 2018. "Joaquin was always like family to me," Sumner says.
Americana singer songwriter Edan Archer
Mothers participate in a focus group to help address the need of child care programs in immigrant communities.
Sarah Payne, a Florida Grand Opera soprano singer, is the company's first opera singer from Fort Lauderdale to go from childhood fan to the FGO stage.
Up and coming jazz trumpeter Summer Carmargo when she was 17 and a student at Dillard High school in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. in 2018. Carmargo went on to graduate from Juilliard, joined NBC's Saturday Night Live House Band, toured with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and plays with her own band in NYC.
Sari Kaufman, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High student, survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Fl. where 17 were killed including one of her friends. "Now when I hear loud noises I think right back to that day."
Brendan O'Toole, 21, who had been in a coma for 2 1/2 years after an auto accident, is visited by a nun at St. John's Nursing Center in Lauderdale Lakes., Fl.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida R. Alexander Acosta announces the conviction of a Cayman Islands yacht owner in 2009 for illegally importing wildlife items protected under the Endangered Species Act. The investigation led to the seizure of 29 wildlife items including ivory, leopard skins, tiger skins and reticulated python snake skins.
The media surrounds staffers from the Miami Seaquarium immediately after rescuing a 1,000 pound mother manatee and its calf that were stuck in a storm drain.
Members of the Dillard High School jazz band in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. warm up before performing at the Savannah Music Festival in 2011.
Cyclists compete in a short-course race during a downpour in Cooper City, Fl. in 2004.
Tequila Waters, mother of Damain Martin, marches in protest demanding answers about the death of her 16-year-old son who drowned in a canal March 8, 2019 while being chased by police.
Workers deliver the head of an Imperial Mammoth replica to the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science for their Prehistoric Florida exhibit .
Army veterans who served in Afghanistan and their service dogs visit the grave of a fellow serviceman at the South Florida National Cemetery in Lake Worth, Fl. on Memorial Day 2022.
A team of technicians with a restoration company wipes down desk surfaces with disinfectant while doing a deep clean at an office building in Sunrise, Fl.. during COVID pandemic in 2020.
COVID-19 testing information is displayed on a departure and arrivals board at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport in 2021. Airlines canceled thousands of flights on Christmas Eve, including flights in and out of South Florida airports, as staff and crew got sick during the omicron surge.
A woman picks up free food from a Feeding South Florida distribution site in Hallandale Beach, Fl. during the early days of the pandemic in 2020.. "I made my own hazmat suit," she said.
Trump and Biden supporters campaign in Hallandale Beach, Fl. on Election Day 2020.
Behind the Mask Portrait Series of South Florida medical workers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Behind the Mask Portrait Series of South Florida medical workers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Florida Panthers players wait their turn to hit the ice during the team's first practice of the 2002 season.
Marine reservist Matthew Palmisano, 20, of North Lauderdale says goodbye to his four-month-old daughter, as he prepares to leave for his first tour in Iraq in 2005.
Dancers with the International Ballet Company perform Cinderella at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts in 2002.
.Yvonne Rice with her sons, D.J. , 16 months, and Steven, 4, inside their trailer home in Coconut Creek, Fl. The family was the subject of the Sun-Sentinel's Season to Share series in 1997.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears at a press conference to announce the expansion of a Palm Beach County Food Bank program made possible through a $1.6 million donation from Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman in 2021.
Trump supporters participate in a President's Day pro Trump rally in West Palm Beach, Fl. in 2021 where the former President drove by and waved to the cheering crowd.
Dan Tyler and his husband Felipe Gonzalez walk their dogs over a rainbow colored bridge in Wilton Manors, Fl. in advance of the city's annual Stonewall Pride Parade in 2021.
Anti-maskers burn masks outside the Broward Schools building in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. in 2021 to protest mask wearing in schools.
A pharmacy director for Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. shows a vial of the Pzifer COVID-19 vaccine as the hospital receives it's first shipment of doses in December 2020.
A resident of a Miami assisted-living facility sends a message to her family as they do a drive-by visit during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
A physician celebrates being the first doctor at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in December of 2020.
Father Frederick Brice gives communion to Mary Feltgen in her home where she lives on social security and has difficulty affording her prescription drugs.
Florida Gator fans tailgate before the 2009 national Championship game against the Oklahoma Sooners held at the Dolphins Stadium in Miami.
A teen practices his saxophone at sunrise on Hollywood Beach.
Revelers make their way through the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico as they celebrate Day of the Dead in 1997.
Retired Lt. Col. Leo Gray, 82, formerly a Tuskegee Airman, holds a 1945 photo of himself after flying a mission over Europe. Gray was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush in 2007.
Rock Island Elementary school students celebrate their improved scores in the Florida Comprehensive Assesment Test in 2009.
A city of Hollywood police officer demonstrates a taser gun
Megan Probst, Mchenley Castillo and Tayina Deravile of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale's One East Society are making an effort to get more young professionals to support art and culture in South Florida.
Manuel Oliver, father of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, has turned his art into activism by creating Walls of Demand murals like this one in Miami. Walls of Demand is a nationwide art project that strives to bring awareness to gun violence.
Husband and wife actors Niki Fridh and Matt Stabile are active members of the regional theatre scene performing throughout South Florida.
Andrew Martinez, 2, waits to have his photo taken with Santa during the Boca Town Center and Boca Helping Hands' annual Christmas Day Feast in 2017.
Diana Gelfand, a social worker with Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, and her son, Zane, 6, attend a prayer vigil in remembrance of George Floyd on Monday June 8, 2020 in Hollywood., Fl.
Animal rescue workers unload evacuated dogs from the Bahamas to escape Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
Echo Li keeps warm with her dog, Astro, a five-year-old Standard Poodle, while visiting T.Y. Park on a chilly day in Hollywood., Fl. in 2020.
A day after Hurricane Irma struck South Florida in September of 2017, Andrew Perini walks his neighbor's dog in Hollywood, Fl.
The Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade is interviewed during media day in 2015.
Members of the Palm Beach Symphony play holiday favorites at sunrise at the Breakers Resort in 2020.
Swimmers plunge into the ocean during Groundhog Day on Hollywood Beach in 2015. The annual swim and dine event benefits Hollywood's Lifeguard Competition Team.
Cookie Williford treads through a flooded Fort Lauderdale neighborhood in 2011. "Please stop the wake, you're pushing water into people's homes," Williford pleaded as cars drove by.
Retired Army Col. Bill Millard holds a chunk of metal in the shape of Ukraine that was made from a piece of a nuclear bomb silo that he helped dismantle in the 1990's. Millard now hosts an annual fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fl. to help the people of Ukraine.
The Miami Heat's Jimmy Butler photographed during media day 2019.
University of Miami head basketball Coach Jim Larranaga watches film of competing team Iowa State in March 2021 as he prepares to take his team to the NCAA Sweet 16 tournament in Chicago.
Fort Lauderdale Ocean Rescue Chief Alex O'Connor looks out onto an empty beach temporarily closed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels approach Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in advance of the city's 2021 air show.
Dylan Walter, 4, and his mother, Duygu, jump into the ocean in Hollywood, Fl. as they celebrate Broward County's reopening of beaches that were temporarily closed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
A memorial is erected near the site of the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Fl. that partially collapsed during the early hours of June 24, 2021 causing the deaths of 98 people.
Hours after its collapse, people look at the Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in Surfside, Fl. that partially collapsed, causing the deaths of 98 people.
A man speaks on his cell phone at a makeshift family reunification center in Surfside, Fl. hours after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South beachfront condo that caused the deaths of 98 people.
What appears to be a bunk bed can be seen from part of the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South Condo that partially collapsed during the early morning of June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Fl.
Al and Esther Gold, both 93, have been married for over 71 years. They met on a blind date and it's been love ever since.
Leandro Gonzalez, an Everglades High School senior, celebrates with his family during a drive-through graduation ceremony in Miramar, Fl. during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Maureen Allyn, 60, of Delray Beach, Fl. celebrates getting her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA-supported vaccine site in Miami in March 2021.
A Memorial Regional Hospital nurse prays during a remembrance service for George Floyd on June 8, 2020 in Hollywood, Fl. Healthcare workers at all six of Memorial's hospitals simultaneously participated in the prayer vigil led by area clergy to inspire peace and unity during a time of social unrest.
The casket of fallen Hollywood police officer Yandy Chirino is carried out for a full honors presentation on Nov. 1, 2021 at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Fl. Chirino, 28, was shot and killed after responding to a suspicious person call.
Natalie McGinty, 10, and her father, Jeff, an Air Force veteran, attend South Florida National Cemetery's 16th Annual Memorial Day Ceremony on May 30, 2022 in Lake Worth, Fl.
Shayna Palmieri gets a tattoo from artist Alex Rockoff at Aces High Tattoo shop on their first day of reopening on August 31, 2020 after a COVID-19 shutdown in West Palm Beach, Fl.
Real estate developer Jorge Perez, founder and chairman of The Related Group, inside his penthouse apartment at the Apogee Beach condominium in Hallandale Beach, Fl. in February 2015.
Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas, its first Quantum Ultra Class cruise ship to sail in the the United States, arrives at Port Everglades on June 10, 2021 in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. .
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz are denied entry into the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on June 19, 2018. Roughly 1,000 migrant children were held at the Homestead facility some of whom were separated from their families at the border and others who were unaccompanied minors.
Vacationers enjoy the pool at the W Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale Beach as South Florida tourism slowed in 2012.
A construction worker stands on the elevated runway project at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Airport in 2012.
Chase Lalonde, 16, a high school lacrosse team captain who suffered a quadriplegic neck injury during a game and can now walk, hugs his sisters at a press conference at Joe DiMaggio's Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Fl. in March 2019.
Couples celebrate their marriage after exchanging vows at a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fl in February 2015 shortly after a U.S. district court found Florida's constitutional and statutory same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional. Same sex couples throughout the nation were granted the right to marry by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2015.
Work crews in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. push sand off A1A in October 2012 after storm surge flooding from Hurricane Sandy.
Former Miami Dolphins Coach Brian Flores during a team practice in 2021 in Miami Gardens, Fl.
St. Thomas Aquinas Athletic Director George Smith inside the high school's football locker room in March 2021 in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. The former football coach is retiring after 49 years at the school.
Unpaid TSA workers from Hollywood-Fort Lauderdale International Airport receive food from a relief agency in January 2019 during the government shutdown..
World War II veteran Rudy Johansky, 92, shakes hands with Navy veteran Matthew Cantone during a Veteran's Day ceremony in Tamarac, Fl. in 2009. .
Muslim families gather after prayers for Eid ul-Adha, the culmination of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, at the Islamic Center of South Florida in 2007.
Charles Heier, a member of the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club, listens to speakers during a Memorial Day ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Fl in 2008.
Donna Revera, wife of Broward Sheriff's Office deputy Donald Revera, watches as her husband's casket is put into the hearse after the funeral service in Plantation, Fl in 1998.
Democrat Joe Garcia keeps then Sen. Hillary Clinton dry during a downpour in Fort Lauderdale as she campaigned for Barack Obama in October of 2008.
Patrick Dunne, a Vietnam War veteran, is reflected in a replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall which was on display during a Memorial Day ceremony in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. in 2008.
A labor and delivery nurse at Memorial Health in Hollywood, Fl. cares for a newborn as the family looks on. In spite of high unemployment during the 2008 recession health care jobs remained a bright spot.
A mother holds her newborn's hand in the neonatal unit at West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton, Fl. in 2009.
Teachers at Calusa Elementary in Boca Raton, Fl. participate in their school's St. Baldrick's Day, a charity event to raise awareness and money for childhood cancer research.
Bar patrons enjoy their food and drink in 2019 at the LX Factory, a popular entertainment area in Lisbon, Portugal.
A father holds his infant son as his passport photo is taken as rules for travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean began to require passports instead of a birth certificate in 2007.
Henijah Marcano, 7, shows her bag of freshly picked strawberries in, 2022 at Family Farms in Davie, Fl.
Tourists take photos of downtown Chicago while on an architectural river cruise to learn about the legendary figures who designed and built the city.
Randy Lynn shares a laugh with his grandson, Caden Parker, 1 yr., as he pulls him in his old-fashioned pedal car in Hollywood, Fl. "I remember having a Plymouth pedal car when I was four-years-old. This one is beat up but it does the trick," Lynn said
Linda Brown, a quadriplegic, gives her capuchin service monkey a hug. The non-profit Helping Hands serves people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with their daily needs.
Artist Matthew Schreiber walks through his curved-light installation entitled "Pipeline (Tokyo)" which consists of 200 blue fluorescent lights mounted on vertical beams of galvanized steel inside the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in 2006.
Joshua Miller, CEO of C & I Studios, a marketing/branding company in Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
Pembroke Pines Charter High school physics instructor Mark Torche steps onto broken glass to demonstrate disbursement of force and pressure. At the beginning of each school year, Torche demonstrates a lesson to get his students excited about science.
Chris Crawford looks over his baby son, Spencer, after undergoing a heart transplant in 2000 in Florida. Spencer was born with hypo plastic left heart syndrome, a congenital defect that leaves an underdeveloped left ventricle unable to pump oxygenated blood to the body.
A doctor holds a baby donor's heart as he prepares to implant it into a baby recipient suffering from a congenital heart defect.
Physicians operate on a pediatric patient at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood, Fl.. in 2023.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High students Jaclyn Corin, Ryan Deitsch and Alfonso Calderon become emotional as they listen to a fellow student recalling the day of the mass shooting where 17 were killed. One hundred students from the Parkland high school met with legislators at the state Capitol to talk about gun control.
