Photos — Mariana Dale

On assignment

Ned Bloomfield inspects a violin in the Tucson Unified School District's instrument repair shop on December 17, 2015.

Children dance during a dinner at the Foundation for Inter-Cultural Dialogue on March 2, 2012. The foundation also serves as the community's Turkish cultural center.

Madison Campanile, 10, scouts a place to photograph 95-year-old Helen Schwartz for a school assignment on March 24, 2016.

Officer Patrick Schneider patrols Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana on his horse, Cody, on May 27, 2014.

A student at Ochoa Community Magnet School in Tucson, Arizona taps out a beat in her music class in spring 2013.

Kelly Griffith raises her glowstick at the candlelight vigil one year after the Jan. 8, 2011 shooting killed six people and injured 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona.

Kirti Ghimire, a Bhutanese immigrant, spreads mulch over a community garden plot at Davidson Elementary School in fall 2012.

Personal (work in Progress)

Cowboys watch the Fiesta de Los Vaqueros in Tucson, Arizona in February 2014.

A man takes a break halfway up one of the pyramids at Teotihuacán in March 2014.

A couple dances in the street in Mexico City on April 30, 2014.