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Monica Jane Frisell went on her first solo road trip when she was seventeen years old, driving from Washington State through Nevada and discovering a love of the road that now fuels her nomadic lifestyle and her photography. She took the photo on this month’s cover in June 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio, at Nicole’s eighteenth birthday party.

Michael Galinsky is an artist who credits The Sun with putting him on a good path in life. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and took the image on this month’s cover as his daughter stood near a window in their living room. The morning light created a ghostly reflection and made him think about how fleeting parents’ time with their children can be.

David J. Bookbinder retired from a career in psychotherapy with plans to embark on long-deferred world travel. Instead he’s been working on Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible, a book featuring his street photography from the 1970s, which includes the photo on this month’s cover. The man is standing outside his building in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

Cornell Watson is a photographer who lives in Durham, North Carolina. His work has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post, including his photography project “Behind the Mask,” about the Black experience in the United States. He took the photo on this month’s cover at Livingstone College, a historically Black college in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Gloria Baker Feinstein lives in Portland, Oregon. Her most recent book of photography, I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For, includes poems by Oregon’s former poet laureate Kim Stafford. Feinstein took the picture on this month’s cover at a baseball tournament in Kentucky. The boy’s team was from Man, West Virginia.

Michael Galinsky is a filmmaker, photographer, and musician who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a contributor to The Sun for more than thirty years. He took the image on this month’s cover in Manhattan in the 1990s.

James Carroll lives in New York City. Though mostly retired, he still takes photos of places like Times Square and county fairs. He took the photo on this month’s cover in the 1970s to commemorate his friends’ recent wedding. They have been married ever since.