Rev. Lonnie Walls speaks during the Pamoja event at Ebenezer Baptist Church West in Athens, Georgia on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. Pamoja celebrated its 55th anniversary with a night of praise, performance and fundraising. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
Pamoja founder Nawanna Lewis Miller prays at the event at Ebenezer Baptist Church West in Athens, Georgia on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. Miller started the organization in 1970 at The University of Georgia after receiving a vision from God, she said. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
Serra Jaggar, owner of Indie South, poses for a photo inside her store in Athens, Georgia on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025.(Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
Twins Taiwo Opaaje, left, and Kehinde Opaaje pose for a photo at the University of Georgia Fashion Design Student Association’s “Hollywood Showgirl: All Eyes on Us, All Eyes on You” fall runway show at Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. UGA students designed, modeled and put together all of the outfits. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
The University of Georgia Fashion Design Student Association presents the “Hollywood Showgirl: All Eyes on Us, All Eyes on You” fall runway show at Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. UGA students designed, modeled and put together all of the outfits. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
Customers browse the aisles in the greenhouse at the UGA Trial Garden plant sale on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
John Ruter, UGA proffessor of horticulture and the director of the Trial Garden, examines a plant at the UGA Trial Garden plant sale on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
Members from Delta Delta Delta perform at the 21st annual Greek Grind at Akins Ford Arena in Athens, Georgia on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. The event raises money Sigma Delta Tau’s national philanthropy, Prevent Child Abuse America, and is UGA’s largest Panhellenic philanthropy event, according to the event program. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
University of Georgia player Niels Ratiu awaits a serve against Texas A&M at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (Photo/Evan Frilingos)
Members of the Arch Society hold candles that represent each student, faculty or staff member who died since April 2023. The annual Georgia Remembers: A Candlelight Memorial was held on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
The 2 a.m. crowd fills Waffle House on Clayton Street on Friday, March 27, 2026 in Athens, Georgia. The restaurant is quiet until late during third shift when people come for a post-bars meal. (Photo/Evan Frilingos)
From left, designer Alice Young poses for a photo with models Penelope Pennington, Grace Lang and Dolly Trivedi at the University of Georgia Fashion Design Student Association’s spring runway show, “The Future is Now,” at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia on Friday, April 10, 2026. Young designed and made all of the outfits pictured here. (Photo/Evan Frilingos; @frilingos.photos)
Taylor Morrison, seated left, places an order with her friends Ellie Stutzman, seated middle, and Martha Bradberry at Last Resort Grill on Clayton Street on Friday, March 20, 2026 in Athens, Georgia. Waiter Garrett Whitfield takes the order on the Athens staple restaurant’s porch. (Photo/Evan Frilingos)
The ticket booths at the entrance to the Coolray Field Carnival on Friday, March 13, 2026 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. (Photo/Evan Frilingos)
Joe Torrez, 31, a carnival salesman from Bakersfield, California, poses for a photo at the Coolray Field Carnival on Friday, March 13, 2026 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. (Photo/Evan Frilingos)
