Eric Kayne

Portraits

Orman Wilson stands before one of his 19 car washes. Wilson's pension fund will be heavily fined by the IRS if changes aren't made to a law meant to go after large corporations with abusive tax shelters.
   
Executive chef Danny Trace at Brennan's in Houston.
   
Needville ISD Superintendent Curtis Rhodes will not allow five-year old Adriel Arocha attend school because of his long hair. Arocha's father Kenney Arocha, is Apache and said long hair is traditional for Native American men.
     
  
Akbar Ahmed, a prominent Islamic scholar and professor at American University, is in Houston as part of a project he is doing on Muslims in America.
  
Yvonne VanZandt posing next to her trailer in High Island, TX. FEMA is forcing out of her trailer before the trailer program ends March 12. FEMA is forcing her family out even though a house to replace the one washed away by Hurricane Ike is likely to be completed before the trailer program ends. She is one of many residents who complain about FEMA pressure to move out before the program ends. FEMA is ending its temporary housting program for hurricane Ike victims even though it extended the program in Louisiana for four years. FEMA is selling trailers to Ike victims for prices ranging from $3,400 to $16,000, but in Louisiana they were sold for under $100.
   
Chris Hauff, 23, was a specialist in the army and an Iraq war vet who is now speaking out against the war. "The war is pointless. We shouldn't be over there. There are too many that have died for somebody else's gain," he said.
     
  
Disney animators Mark Henn, left, and Mike Surrey are chief animators on the movie "The Princess & the Frog" in Houston at the Four Seasons Hotel.
   
British spy novelist Stella Rimington, whose latest book is titled Illegal Action. Before turning to spy fiction, Rimington headed MI5, Britain's counterintelligence service, which made her the country's top spycatcher.
  
In 2003, Ricardo Rachell, who was severely disfigured by a shotgun blast to the face in 1992, was wrongly convicted in the sexual assault of an 8-year-old in Houston. DNA testing, however, exonerated Rachell of the crime and he was set free.
     
  
Tanika Thomas poses for a portrait at her home on Angel Lane where she lives. The Oprah-donated neighborhood has been having an increase in crime recently.