Photojournalism | Photography by Mark Avery
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
A raised hand in a Wuhan elementary school classroom. © 1986 by Mark Avery
Eyes on a billboard watch a bicyclist on a Beijing street. © 1986 by Mark Avery
A street urchin in Lhasa. © 1987 by Mark Avery
China's Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. © 1988 AP Photo/Mark Avery
Red flags in Tiananmen Square during a huge May Day protest. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery
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
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
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
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
© 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery
Ominous graffiti near Qianmen days after the Tiananmen Massacre. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery
Two elderly Naxi women gossip near the central market in Lijiang, China. © 1990 AP Photo/Mark Avery
A Chinese couple enjoy a Coke from McDonalds next to a poster for the movie "Titanic" in Beijing. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
Chinese students congregate at a Shanghai McDonalds after school. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
Rosza Fenyoe plays with her grandson Hayden on Christmas Day. © 2002 by Mark Avery
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A shepherd quickly moves his flock away from US Marines as Regimental Combat Team 5 heads toward Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
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
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
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
L/Cpl. Philip Cashman of Syracuse, NY, is overcome after a firefight in the streets of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
US Marines carry the bodies of Iraqis killed at a roadblock in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
Guadalupe Acevedo, left, who has early onset Alzheimers, and his wife Edelmira Acevedo, in their Tustin home. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
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
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
An anti war billboard in Times Square during the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
An airliner on approach to John Wayne Airport intersects with a rainbow over the city of Tustin. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
A Chinese man climbs over debris from demolition during the renovation of Beijing's Dazhalan neighborhood. © 2006 by Mark Avery
A young Chinese woman enjoys a quiet moment at a Beijing Starbucks. © 2006 by Mark Avery
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest a suspect during a pre-dawn raid in Santa Ana, California. ICE has started the largest immigration enforcement action in U.S. history to locate illegal immigrants who have criminal convictions and/or are in violation of deportation orders. The week-long series of raids targeted five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. © 2007 AP Photo/Mark Avery
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
Fighting wildfires in Foothill Ranch, California. © 2007 by Mark Avery
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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
A raised hand in a Wuhan elementary school classroom. © 1986 by Mark Avery
Eyes on a billboard watch a bicyclist on a Beijing street. © 1986 by Mark Avery
A street urchin in Lhasa. © 1987 by Mark Avery
China's Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. © 1988 AP Photo/Mark Avery
Red flags in Tiananmen Square during a huge May Day protest. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery
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
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
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
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
© 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery
Ominous graffiti near Qianmen days after the Tiananmen Massacre. © 1989 AP Photo/Mark Avery
Two elderly Naxi women gossip near the central market in Lijiang, China. © 1990 AP Photo/Mark Avery
A Chinese couple enjoy a Coke from McDonalds next to a poster for the movie "Titanic" in Beijing. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
Chinese students congregate at a Shanghai McDonalds after school. © 1998 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
Rosza Fenyoe plays with her grandson Hayden on Christmas Day. © 2002 by Mark Avery
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A shepherd quickly moves his flock away from US Marines as Regimental Combat Team 5 heads toward Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
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
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
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
L/Cpl. Philip Cashman of Syracuse, NY, is overcome after a firefight in the streets of Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
US Marines carry the bodies of Iraqis killed at a roadblock in Baghdad. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
Guadalupe Acevedo, left, who has early onset Alzheimers, and his wife Edelmira Acevedo, in their Tustin home. © 2003 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
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
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
An anti war billboard in Times Square during the Republican National Convention in New York. © 2004 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
An airliner on approach to John Wayne Airport intersects with a rainbow over the city of Tustin. © 2005 Mark Avery/Orange County Register
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
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
A Chinese man climbs over debris from demolition during the renovation of Beijing's Dazhalan neighborhood. © 2006 by Mark Avery
A young Chinese woman enjoys a quiet moment at a Beijing Starbucks. © 2006 by Mark Avery
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest a suspect during a pre-dawn raid in Santa Ana, California. ICE has started the largest immigration enforcement action in U.S. history to locate illegal immigrants who have criminal convictions and/or are in violation of deportation orders. The week-long series of raids targeted five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. © 2007 AP Photo/Mark Avery
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
Fighting wildfires in Foothill Ranch, California. © 2007 by Mark Avery