Portrait Personality - 1st, “‘Sugar Dre’ Donovan”Andre Donovan has been a professional boxer for a year, and currently trains under Lee Kreisher at T-County Boxing Academy, in New Philadelphia. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Portrait Personality - 2nd, “Tatoos”Chris McCrea and his wife Michelle McCrea of Adrian, Michigan, explore the Toledo Tattoo Festival Saturday, April 22, 2023, at the Glass City Convention Center in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait Personality - 3rd, “Ted Gantz”Sculptor Ted Gantz stands in the doorway between his kitchen and Florentine-inspired outdoor space featuring some of his original sculpture work, pictured, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, in the Pendleton neighborhood of Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Portrait Personality - Award of Excellence, “Holi Toledo”University of Toledo freshman Abhi Shek laughs while being fending off colored powder during the Holi Toledo Festival on the Memorial Field-house lawn on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at the University of Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Portrait Personality - Award of Excellence, “Fireworks Aftermath”LaTonya Nichols holds a photo of her children Nofeir Cannon and A’Tayia Nichols who were both killed by gun violence. Nichols will be staying in a hotel room over the holiday weekend to avoid the sounds of fireworks in her neighborhood, which remind her of when she witnessed the murder of her daughter in 2022. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait Personality - Award of Excellence, “Emergency Benefits End”Jasmine Wooten sits with her two children Arius Wooten, 8, left, and Naomi Wooten, 11, on her bed in their home on the East Side of Columbus. Jasmine is an artist, her work hangs on the wall behind her. Emergency SNAP benefits helped to feed her family during the Covid-19 Epidemic. She is a single mom who recently earned her Masters Degree in Social Work from The Ohio State University. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
