Pat, Norah Jane, and Becky Hill, of Loveland, Ohio, with their oak trees on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. "I've always wanted to name this property 'Twin Oaks,' one for her and one for me," Hill said. — This portrait is part of my People and Their Trees series.

Remi George smokes a tobacco pipe after dinner near our campsite atop Yosemite Falls, California on July 17, 2019 during our 18-day backpacking trip.

Marygrace Kutylowski, a site manager for NEST mobile learning community center, helps kids with their masks before helping with homework in MacArthur Park, Loveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct.14, 2020. 

Marygrace Kutylowski wears COVID-19 protection facemasks while working with Jaden at NEST in MacArthur Park, Loveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020.

A man holds his hands up alongside Black Lives Matter protestors at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati on June 1, 2020. This protest happened in response to the death of George Floyd, which was a week and one day earlier.

Perphelia Fowler, Bob Klein, and Sally Fowler work together to hand build a new weaving during the opening of “Pattern and Disruption: Diné Lifeways and Embedded Mathematics,” at the Kennedy Art Museum in Athens, Ohio, on February 1st 2020. Sally Fowler is the mother-in-law of Perphelia Fowler, and the adopted mother of Bob Klein in the family of their Navajo clan, Bitterwater.

Laine Dannemiller, my girlfriend, journals at our campsite near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on the first night of a 12-day camping trip en route to Acadia National Park, Maine on June 25, 2020.

Sam Cox sends "Pancake Propelled," a 5.11 b/c route in the Trash Shoot Area of Mad River Gorge Nature Preserve, Ohio, on the morning of August 31, 2020. 

Sean McElveen climbs 'Mad Corner,' a 5.9 rated route in the Trash Shoot Area of Mad River Gorge Nature Preserve, Ohio on the morning of Aug. 31, 2020. Climbing routes range in difficulty from 5.1 to 5.13, in a height based system that often changes depending on the last person who climbed the route. 

Since I came home from school in March, my bedroom walls have become a thought bubble as I work during the day. Each day starts with watching the morning light enter through the windows.

Steven Leffue rolls the base of a snowman across the top of the hill at Strouds Run State Park in Athens, Ohio, on February 8, 2020. Leffue, a theater professor at Ohio University, was building the snowman with his son Theo during the first winter snowfall of 2020 in Athens. 

Stars shoot across the Milky Way above our campsite along Redwood Creek, CA on July 24, 2019. My friends and I sat by our campfire on our last night in the woods of an 18-day backpacking adventure across the country. 

Laine Dannemiller is double-exposed with dandelions in my backyard in a film portrait created during quarantine in April, 2020. These combined memories share the people I had been quarantined with, as well as images from daily walks around my house, my yard, and local nature preserves.

"No matter what you go looking for, the trail provides. You may not be consciously aware of what it is you need, but you'll find it out here. All you have to do is keep an open mind. Most people never do anything great with their lives because great things don't feel great when you're doing them," Alyx said. — This spread is from my Life Around Us book project.

"I think (seeing other artists of color) validates your interests ... If you can't find your narrative, how can you defend it?," said Athens-based artist April D. Felipe. This photograph was taken for Backdrop Magazine.

Tomorrow Daily performs their new album at The Union in Athens, Ohio, on Friday February 21st, 2020. Tomorrow Daily released their self-titled album the same night as this concert. 

Laine Dannemiller paints on Lauren Karle for the visual part of her first independent blog post on self-love and body confidence. Her blog can be found here