Photojournalism | Photography by Mark Avery

<body> <h1>Photojournalism | Photography by Mark Avery</h1> Guadalupe Acevedo, left, who has early onset Alzheimers, and his wife Edelmira Acevedo, in their Tustin home. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> A statue stands untouched in front of a house that burned to the ground in the community of Kentwood, during wild fires in San Diego County near Julian. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Rosza Fenyoe plays with her grandson Hayden on Christmas Day. © 2002 by Mark Avery<br> Ominous graffiti near Qianmen days after the Tiananmen Massacre. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> Chinese students congregate at a Shanghai McDonalds after school. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> A protester tries to rally support as soldiers emerge from the Great Hall of the People just hours before gunfire erupted around Tiananmen Square. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> Morning activity in Beijing's Tiananmen Square is reflected in the wet pavement following a downpour. In the background are the Martyrs monument and beyond that Mao's mausoleum. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> Red flags in Tiananmen Square during a huge May Day protest. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> Two elderly Naxi women gossip near the central market in Lijiang, China. © 1990 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> A Chinese couple enjoy a Coke from McDonalds next to a poster for the movie "Titanic" in Beijing. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Cpl. Ryan Hamilton of Dana Point, and L/Cpl. Eric Young of Orange share a mirror as they shave with the US Marine Corps' Regimental Combat Team 5 in Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> An anti war billboard in Times Square during the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Vangee Oberschlake, left, of Orange, and Dr. Ana Sanchez of Newport Beach chat during an anti-war protest in the Plaza in Orange in support of Cindy Sheehan, who is protesting her son's death in Iraq outside President Bush's Texas ranch. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> L/Cpl. Jesse Cavender of San Jose checks out four Frog 5 missiles found by US Marines in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> US Marines carry the bodies of Iraqis killed at a roadblock in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> A young couple, two out of thousands of university students who occupying Tiananmen Square for nine days, pass the time with a lively dance. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> L/Cpl. Philip Cashman of Syracuse, NY, is overcome after a firefight in the streets of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 watch as an Air Force A10 sprays a building with cannon fire during a firefight in central Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> A dead Iraqi lies on top of an RPG he never got to fire at US Marines in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> US Army Delta Force operatives approach to search a car after Iraqis got caught in the crossfire of a skirmish with US Marines on the outskirts of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> L/Cpl. Dominic Chevalier, left, of Pittsburg, CA, and L/Cpl. Leonardo Morales of Los Angeles sleep in fancy chairs in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, taken by 1st battalion/5th Marines in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Iraqi civilians flee the city as US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 guard a strategic intersection on the outskirts of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> A shepherd quickly moves his flock away from US Marines as Regimental Combat Team 5 heads toward Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> An Iraqi quickly bandages the foot of a dazed friend who stepped on a land mine while waving at US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 on the outskirts of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> A pair of boots is among the debris left behind as deserting Iraqi soldiers don civilian garb to blend into the civilian population as US Marines advanced towards Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Lt. Matt Fennell of Los Altos, CA, mans the turret of a US Marine AAV as Regimental Combat Team 5 heads north past an Iraqi traffic sign towards Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Radio operator L/Cpl Brad Rusher of Carthage, SD, maintains radio contact with an artillery battery in a sandstorm during the invasion of Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Cpl. Sterling wears a "Scream" mask as US Marines Regimental Combat Team 5, head north during the invasion of Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Navy Corpsmen tend to a wounded Iraqi prisoner after Marines took control of an oil pumping station in southern Iraq on the first morning of the invasion. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Navy chaplain Lt. Carey Cash leads US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 in a prayer before the invasion of Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev leans out of the window of his limousine to shake the hand of a Chinese child on hand to greet him as he arrived at Shanghai Airport. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> There's no Foster Farms in China, no frozen chicken section at the local supermarket. If you want chicken, you buy a live one like this example in Wuhan, China. © 1985 by Mark Avery<br> A raised hand in a Wuhan elementary school classroom. © 1986 by Mark Avery<br> Eyes on a billboard watch a bicyclist on a Beijing street. © 1986 by Mark Avery<br> Nine-year old Sara Garvey of Huntington Beach can't wait to get her hands on the 5th Harry Potter book as it goes on sale at after midnight at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Costa Mesa. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Collector Eric Hsieh of Irvine with most of his 175 pairs of sneakers. He holds a pair of original Nike Air Jordans from 1984. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Junior Delagete Alexander Porada shows off his muscles to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who held a luncheon for the California Delegation at Planet Hollywood during the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Shea Somma of Tustin enjoys his last weekend of surfing at Laguna Beach before heading back to Kinesiology studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Wendy Vernon cries as she makes her first trip to the beach since her children were killed. Vernon's children were killed by her ex-husband in a murder-suicide. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Fighting wildfires in Foothill Ranch, California. © 2007 by Mark Avery<br> China's Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. © 1988 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> A street urchin in Lhasa. © 1987 by Mark Avery<br> Muslim girls cheer during the school soccer championship game between the 4th grade and the 8th grade at the Islamic Society of Orange County's Orange Crescent School in Garden Grove. © 2009 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> Texas delegate Wade Webster, left, and boxing promoter Don King get a lot of media attention on the floor of the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> An airliner on approach to John Wayne Airport intersects with a rainbow over the city of Tustin. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Sports agent Scott Boras at his office in Newport Beach. © 2007 by Mark Avery<br> Friends of drive-by shooting victim Cesar Gutierrez, 14, of Buena Park hold each other as they view the body during a memorial in Anaheim. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> Marine Pvt. Ronnie Tallman, a Navajo, learned last year, while on leave from the military, that he has what his community considers a sacred gift. He believes he has been called to be a hand trembler, an extremely rare healer who has the power when in a trance to determine what is wrong with someone physically, emotionally or spiritually. He is actually licensed by the Navajo Nation as a medicine practitioner. Tallman is stationed in Twenty-nine Palms, California. © 2007 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> A Golden Retriever named Frank plays fetch among colorful Autumn leaves in the mountains of Central California. © 2014 by Mark Avery<br> <h2>Photography by Mark Avery</h2> <div></div> <span class="links"><a href="index.html" target="_top"><font color="#9B9B9B">Home</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><strong><a href="portfolio.html" target="_top"><font color="#ffffff">Portfolio</font></a></strong></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=1" target="_top"><font color="#9B9B9B">Bio</font></a></span> <h3> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478139T.jpg" width="200" height="130" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Guadalupe Acevedo, left, who has early onset Alzheimers, and his wife Edelmira Acevedo, in their Tustin home. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478140T.jpg" width="200" height="140" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A statue stands untouched in front of a house that burned to the ground in the community of Kentwood, during wild fires in San Diego County near Julian. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478120T.jpg" width="200" height="135" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Rosza Fenyoe plays with her grandson Hayden on Christmas Day. © 2002 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478115T.jpg" width="200" height="131" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Ominous graffiti near Qianmen days after the Tiananmen Massacre. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478118T.jpg" width="200" height="139" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Chinese students congregate at a Shanghai McDonalds after school. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478113T.jpg" width="200" height="132" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A protester tries to rally support as soldiers emerge from the Great Hall of the People just hours before gunfire erupted around Tiananmen Square. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478114T.jpg" width="154" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478112T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Morning activity in Beijing's Tiananmen Square is reflected in the wet pavement following a downpour. In the background are the Martyrs monument and beyond that Mao's mausoleum. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478109T.jpg" width="200" height="130" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Red flags in Tiananmen Square during a huge May Day protest. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478116T.jpg" width="200" height="131" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Two elderly Naxi women gossip near the central market in Lijiang, China. © 1990 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478117T.jpg" width="136" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A Chinese couple enjoy a Coke from McDonalds next to a poster for the movie "Titanic" in Beijing. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478121T.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Cpl. Ryan Hamilton of Dana Point, and L/Cpl. Eric Young of Orange share a mirror as they shave with the US Marine Corps' Regimental Combat Team 5 in Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478145T.jpg" width="200" height="131" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> An anti war billboard in Times Square during the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478150T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Vangee Oberschlake, left, of Orange, and Dr. Ana Sanchez of Newport Beach chat during an anti-war protest in the Plaza in Orange in support of Cindy Sheehan, who is protesting her son's death in Iraq outside President Bush's Texas ranch. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478136T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> L/Cpl. Jesse Cavender of San Jose checks out four Frog 5 missiles found by US Marines in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478137T.jpg" width="200" height="139" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> US Marines carry the bodies of Iraqis killed at a roadblock in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478111T.jpg" width="160" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A young couple, two out of thousands of university students who occupying Tiananmen Square for nine days, pass the time with a lively dance. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478135T.jpg" width="119" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> L/Cpl. Philip Cashman of Syracuse, NY, is overcome after a firefight in the streets of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478133T.jpg" width="200" height="121" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 watch as an Air Force A10 sprays a building with cannon fire during a firefight in central Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478134T.jpg" width="200" height="122" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A dead Iraqi lies on top of an RPG he never got to fire at US Marines in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478131T.jpg" width="200" height="146" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> US Army Delta Force operatives approach to search a car after Iraqis got caught in the crossfire of a skirmish with US Marines on the outskirts of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478132T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> L/Cpl. Dominic Chevalier, left, of Pittsburg, CA, and L/Cpl. Leonardo Morales of Los Angeles sleep in fancy chairs in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, taken by 1st battalion/5th Marines in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478130T.jpg" width="200" height="128" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Iraqi civilians flee the city as US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 guard a strategic intersection on the outskirts of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478129T.jpg" width="200" height="151" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A shepherd quickly moves his flock away from US Marines as Regimental Combat Team 5 heads toward Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478128T.jpg" width="200" height="132" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> An Iraqi quickly bandages the foot of a dazed friend who stepped on a land mine while waving at US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 on the outskirts of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478127T.jpg" width="200" height="134" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A pair of boots is among the debris left behind as deserting Iraqi soldiers don civilian garb to blend into the civilian population as US Marines advanced towards Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478126T.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Lt. Matt Fennell of Los Altos, CA, mans the turret of a US Marine AAV as Regimental Combat Team 5 heads north past an Iraqi traffic sign towards Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478125T.jpg" width="200" height="140" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Radio operator L/Cpl Brad Rusher of Carthage, SD, maintains radio contact with an artillery battery in a sandstorm during the invasion of Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478124T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Cpl. Sterling wears a "Scream" mask as US Marines Regimental Combat Team 5, head north during the invasion of Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478123T.jpg" width="200" height="154" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Navy Corpsmen tend to a wounded Iraqi prisoner after Marines took control of an oil pumping station in southern Iraq on the first morning of the invasion. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478122T.jpg" width="200" height="132" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Navy chaplain Lt. Carey Cash leads US Marines of Regimental Combat Team 5 in a prayer before the invasion of Iraq. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478110T.jpg" width="200" height="131" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev leans out of the window of his limousine to shake the hand of a Chinese child on hand to greet him as he arrived at Shanghai Airport. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478104T.jpg" width="200" height="146" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> There's no Foster Farms in China, no frozen chicken section at the local supermarket. If you want chicken, you buy a live one like this example in Wuhan, China. © 1985 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478105T.jpg" width="200" height="132" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A raised hand in a Wuhan elementary school classroom. © 1986 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478106T.jpg" width="200" height="139" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Eyes on a billboard watch a bicyclist on a Beijing street. © 1986 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478138T.jpg" width="135" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Nine-year old Sara Garvey of Huntington Beach can't wait to get her hands on the 5th Harry Potter book as it goes on sale at after midnight at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Costa Mesa. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478141T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Collector Eric Hsieh of Irvine with most of his 175 pairs of sneakers. He holds a pair of original Nike Air Jordans from 1984. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478146T.jpg" width="200" height="136" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Junior Delagete Alexander Porada shows off his muscles to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who held a luncheon for the California Delegation at Planet Hollywood during the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478147T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Shea Somma of Tustin enjoys his last weekend of surfing at Laguna Beach before heading back to Kinesiology studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478142T.jpg" width="200" height="191" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Wendy Vernon cries as she makes her first trip to the beach since her children were killed. Vernon's children were killed by her ex-husband in a murder-suicide. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478155T.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Fighting wildfires in Foothill Ranch, California. © 2007 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478108T.jpg" width="171" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> China's Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. © 1988 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478107T.jpg" width="144" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A street urchin in Lhasa. © 1987 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478163T.jpg" width="200" height="133" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Muslim girls cheer during the school soccer championship game between the 4th grade and the 8th grade at the Islamic Society of Orange County's Orange Crescent School in Garden Grove. © 2009 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478144T.jpg" width="200" height="165" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Texas delegate Wade Webster, left, and boxing promoter Don King get a lot of media attention on the floor of the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478148T.jpg" width="133" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> An airliner on approach to John Wayne Airport intersects with a rainbow over the city of Tustin. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478157T.jpg" width="135" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Sports agent Scott Boras at his office in Newport Beach. © 2007 by Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478149T.jpg" width="136" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Friends of drive-by shooting victim Cesar Gutierrez, 14, of Buena Park hold each other as they view the body during a memorial in Anaheim. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478154T.jpg" width="200" height="138" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> Marine Pvt. Ronnie Tallman, a Navajo, learned last year, while on leave from the military, that he has what his community considers a sacred gift. He believes he has been called to be a hand trembler, an extremely rare healer who has the power when in a trance to determine what is wrong with someone physically, emotionally or spiritually. He is actually licensed by the Navajo Nation as a medicine practitioner. Tallman is stationed in Twenty-nine Palms, California. © 2007 AP Photo/Mark Avery<br> <img src="/users/MarkAvery1861/images/MarkAvery18612478165T.jpg" width="133" height="200" border="0" vspace="0" style="display:none;"/> A Golden Retriever named Frank plays fetch among colorful Autumn leaves in the mountains of Central California. © 2014 by Mark Avery<br> </h3>