Best of Advanced Documentary | UNC Visual Communication

Junior Sophie Silverstein competes on uneven bars during UNC gymnastics’ home meet at Carmichael Arena on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. Silverstein scored a 9.725 in this event. Photo by Ira Wilder

Pittsboro Youth Theater’s Elite Ensemble rehearses Peter Pan Jr. at the Center for the Arts in Pittsboro on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. The Elite Ensemble will be performing Peter Pan Jr. at the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2023. Photo by Anna Conners

What Makes a Man?
Video by Alex Berenfeld

Insight into NFTs
Video by Chris Ocana

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Photo by Madeline Kraft

Kathryn helps Lily-Rae into her walker during a virtual therapy session conducted from their small living room via Zoom. At age 1, Lily-Rae was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. “When we found out she had a disability, that really changed the scope of my life,” said Kathryn. “You don’t ever want to feel like there’s something wrong with your child. But I knew there was something wrong.”

Photo by Angelina Katsanis

Paralympian Taylor Talbot, who has lost all sight in her right eye and only has about 5% tunnel vision in her left, sits for a portrait on Aug. 3, 2021 less than a week before heading to Tokyo for the Summer Paralympics. Talbot began losing her sight at 2 years old and was legally blind by 8, yet her sight has hardly been a hindrance in conquering every goal she sets.