2024 College Contest

04 Portrait


1. Ziyu Zhu / Boston University

Kelise Cole, of Boston Socaholics, attends the 30th Cambridge Carnival in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States on Sep 8, 2024.

2. Andrew Burke-Stevenson / Boston University

James Markis, a Boston College graduate student and chair of Massachusetts College Republicans, poses for a portrait in his apartment in front of a white backdrop on October 18, 2024 in Boston, MA. On his wall is a flag picturing Donald Trump after an assassination attempt earlier this year in Pennsylvania. Markis said he was looking for wall decor and bought it off of TikTok. Next to him is an icon of Saint Demetrios, which Markis, who practices Greek Orthodoxy, said he derives his first name from.

3. Ziyu Zhu / Boston University

A Revolutionary War reenactor fires a musket at a Labor Day parade in Marlborough, Massachusetts on September 2, 2024.