Michelle Sheppard captures the daily activities and lives of students from Baxter School for the Deaf in Falmouth, Maine.

Finding ways for prison inmates to give back to society while incarcerated is a difficult task, but the Pups in Prison Program at the Downeast Correctional Institute does just that. Lorienne Schulze captures how the program allows inmates to train service dogs while they serve their prison sentence.

A refugee from Sudan, Nyapeni Chou Doul lives an entirely different life than she did in her native country. Kody Steffy captures the life of Doul, who lives in Portland.

Kimberly Lesher captures the lives of transgender individuals living in Maine.

Having travelled to Trinidad and Tobago growing up, Nigel Chase developed a love for Calypso and steel drum music. Alexandra Brahler captures Chase's entry into steel drum music, and performing in his small coastal community of Brooksville.

Drive about 20 miles north of Portland, Maine and you’ll arrive at Pineland. It looks like a college campus: brick buildings with stately pillars, it’s surrounded by rolling hills. But Pineland’s exterior doesn’t tell you about its history. It opened as an institution for people with disabilities in 1908. Alexa Burke spoke with people who lived and worked at Pineland to learn about the history of institutionalization and the legacies that remain today.

Drive about 20 miles north of Portland, Maine and you’ll arrive at Pineland. It looks like a college campus: brick buildings with stately pillars, it’s surrounded by rolling hills. But Pineland’s exterior doesn’t tell you about its history. It opened as an institution for people with disabilities in 1908. Alexa Burke spoke with people who lived and worked at Pineland to learn about the history of institutionalization and the legacies that remain today.