I am reflecting on some of my work from the first half of 2026 after the Associated Press laid me off from my job as a staff photojournalist. Thanks for looking. www.erinhooley.com/top-of-2026-... #photojournalism #photography #Chicago #journalism #Obama #baseball

“I am Somebody,” was the line of a poem he often repeated. “I may be poor, but I am Somebody; I may be young; but I am Somebody; I may be on welfare, but I am Somebody,” Jackson intoned. www.erinhooley.com/the-rev-jess... #JesseJackson #theRevJesseJackson #Chicago #civilrights

From @chicagotribune.com #birds #migratorybirds #Chicago

Chicago White Sox’s Sam Antonacci slides into third base on a fly out from Munetaka Murakami during the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Saturday, May 9, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoWhiteSox #SeattleMariners #WhiteSox #SamAntonacci #baseball #MLB

Important work from my former @chicagotribune.com colleagues. Well-deservered @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social 👏 #Pulitzer #immigration #Chicago #ChicagoTribune #journalism #photography #photojournalism #newsmatters #freedomofpress

Nice #photo play and overall layout of the #Route66 story from @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography #photojournalism #Route66at100 #GetYourKicks

The Chicago Cubs sweep the Philadelphia Phillies in a three-game home stand Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoCubs #PhiladelphiaPhillies #Cubs #Phillies #baseball #MLB #sweep #Chicago #walkoffwin #flytheW

Tampa Bay Rays' Yandy Diaz hugs Jonny DeLuca after DeLuca hit a three-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoWhiteSox #TampaBayRays #YandyDiaz #JonnyDeLuca #baseball @mlb.com

The Obama Presidential Center, which opens to the public on Juneteenth, is seen Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Chicago (@apnews.com/Photo/Erin Hooley) #ObamaPresidentialCenter #Obama #BarackObama #Chicago #ObamaCenter #Illinois #architecture #POTUS #USA #dronephotography #photojournalism

From @apnews.com: apnews.com/photo-galler... #Route66 #MotherRoad #HistoricRoute66 #Americana #RoadTrip #Chicago

Chicago White Sox’s Munetaka Murakami runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Saturday, April 4, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #MunetakaMurakami #KazumaOkamoto #ChicagoWhiteSox #WhiteSox #baseball #Japan

Chicago White Sox’s Tristan Peters (29) and his team celebrate his walk-off single to win a home-opener baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Friday, April 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #WhiteSox #Chicago #TristanPeters #walkoffwin #baseball #MLB #ChicagoWhiteSox

Michigan advances to the Final Four after defeating Tennessee 95-62 in the Elite Eight of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 29, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Michigan #YaxelLendeborg #basketball #FinalFour #MarchMadness #Tennessee #NCAA #EliteEight

Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, speaks during an election night party after winning the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #Illinois #Chicago #IllinoisPrimary #Election #JulianaStratton #Election2026 @julianastratton.bsky.social

The Rev. Al Sharpton, right, consoles Yusef Jackson as they leave for the burial of his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, after a final, intimate Homegoing Celebration of Life, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #JesseJackson #YusefJackson #RevJesseJackson #RevAlSharpton

Kamala Harris, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Jill and Joe Biden attend Homegoing for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at House of Hope, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #JesseJackson #TheRevJesseJackson #BarackObama #KamalaHarris #BillClinton #HillaryClinton #JoeBiden

Jacqueline Jackson, window of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, greets visitors with her family during the second day of public visitation at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #JacquelineJackson #JesseJackson #RevJesseJackson #RainbowPUSH #Chicago

People attend a public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #JesseJackson #RevJesseJackson #JesseJacksonMemorial #Chicago #RainbowPUSH @apnews.com

The Rev. Jesse Jackson prays at the annual Mayor Harold Washington remembrance and recognition wreath laying ceremony Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune) #JesseJackson #TheRevJesseJackson #TheReverendJesseJackson #Chicago @chicagotribune.com

Orchids adorn a Volkswagen Beetle as finishing touches are placed on the 12th annual Chicago Botanic Garden Orchid Show, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Glencoe, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #orchids #ChicagoBotanicGarden #flowers #orchidshow #greenhouse #Volkswagen #botany #garden #plants @apnews.com

Democracy Dies in Darkness. "Some of the departures shocked the newsroom, including that of a Ukraine correspondent who was laid off while working in a war zone, and the cutting of all staff photographers." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

The Baháʼí House of Worship is seen from above on a snowy Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Wilmette, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Bahai #snow #dronephotography #winter #weather #Chicago @apnews.com

Border Patrol commander #GregoryBovino is expected to leave #Minneapolis as the Trump administration reshuffles leadership of its immigration enforcement operation and scales back the federal presence after a second fatal shooting by federal officers. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) tinyurl.com/4tc5mj88

Romeo Garcia blows on his hand inside his tent as #OrangeTentProject workers distribute supplies to the unhoused population on a dangerously cold Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in #Chicago. (@apnews.com/Photo/Erin Hooley) #Chicagoweather #PolarVortex #winterweather #coldweather #freezing #cold #unhoused

Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams and his team fall to the Los Angeles Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford in the NFL Divisional Round game Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, in Chicago. (@apnews.com Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoBears #LARams #CalebWilliams #MatthewStafford #football #LosAngelesRams

Chicago Bears, 31, Green Bay Packers, 27, in an NFL wild card football game Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at Soldier Field in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoBears #GreenBayPackers #Bears #NFL #football @apnews.com @chibears.bsky.social @greenbaypackers.bsky.social

As another year on staff with the Associated Press came to a close, I looked through my images from 2025 and reflected. Words and pictures, here: www.erinhooley.com/pictures-of-...

Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore celebrates his team’s overtime win after catching a touchdown to win an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoBears #Bears #DaBears #GreenBayPackers #Packers #DJMoore #CalebWilliams

From @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/immi... @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social

A pair of snowy owls rests on a pier near Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in November 2025 in Chicago. (@apnews.com/Erin Hooley) #snowyowls #owls #birdsofprey #birds #birding #Chicago #ChicagoOrnithologicalSociety #MontrosePointBirdSanctuary #LakeMichigan #MontroseBeach apnews.com/article/owls...

Chicago Bears, 31, Pittsburgh Steelers, 28, in an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Chicago. @apnews.com/Erin Hooley #ChicagoBears #PittsburghSteelers #Steelers #MasonRudolph #AaronRodgers #CalebWilliams #SoldierField #NFL #football @chibears.bsky.social @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social

From @apnews.com and @elliotspagat.bsky.social: apnews.com/article/chic... #Chicago #immigration #LittleVillage #Mexico #immigrants #immigrationenforcement #Latino #Latinocommunity

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Maria Guzman, left, and Sergio Rocha, parents of young children, comfort each other outside of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center after federal immigration agents took a daycare teacher Nov. 5, 2025, in #Chicago. @apnews.com Photo/Erin Hooley #immigration #ICE

Senior U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino speaks to Associated Press reporters during an interview Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in Rosemont, Ill. (@apnews.com Photo/Erin Hooley) #GregoryBovino #Bovino #GregBovino #BorderPatrol #CustomsandBorderProtection #CBP #immigration apnews.com/article/immi...

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Protesters and law enforcement, including chief patrol agent Gregory Bovino, clash at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Chicago #immigration #GregoryBovino #Bovino #Broadview #borderpatrol #Trump #ICE @apnews.com

Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrates his team’s win after catching a fly out from San Diego Padres' Freddy Fermin, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #PeteCrowArmstrong #SanDiegoPadres #Padres #baseball #MLB #wildcard

The Chicago Cubs clinch home-field advantage for their Wild Card series against the San Diego Padres next week. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) @apnews.com #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #SanDiegoPadres #Padres #WildCardSeries #WildCard #baseball #postseason #MLB #WrigleyField #Chicago #IanHapp #MattShaw

Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong celebrates with Kyle Tucker after making Cubs history with 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #PeteCrowArmstrong #3030Club #SammySosa #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #baseball #MLB #homerun

Jessica Aguilar and her son John are emotional after leaving diabetes medication for her husband Carlos, who she said was taken by unidentified agents on his way to work, at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sept. 24, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. #immigration #ICE #Broadview #Chicago @apnews.com

Angelica Ornelas walks in the #MexicanIndependenceDay Parade, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. Organizers considered canceling because of threats by President Trump, but thousands of people turned out anyway. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) @apnews.com

Demonstrators protest President Trump’s "Operation Midway Blitz" and the presence of ICE, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #Chicago #MidwayBlitz #Trump #PresidentTrump #immigration #ICE #protest #demonstration #march #politics #protesters #sanctuarycity @apnews.com

Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore prepares to take the field before an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) #DJMoore #ChicagoBears #Bears #MinnesotaVikings #Vikings #NFL #football #SoldierField @apnews.com

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Metairie Cemetery, NOLA, August 2025: www.erinhooley.com/metairie-cem... #NewOrleans #NOLA #MetairieCemetery #Metairie #Louisiana #graveyard #graves #angel #lizard

From @apnews.com apnews.com/photo-essay/... #Katrina #HurricaneKatrina #NewOrleans

Thank you @petapixel.bsky.social for this fun writeup on the #Polaroid baseball story! petapixel.com/2025/08/01/a...