Clergy members from Saint Peter’s Church in Philadelphia give “Ashes to Go” at the Market East mass transit station during the morning rush hour on Ash Wednesday.
The new nationwide movement brings the service to Christians celebrating the beginning of Lent.
I had just a couple of mintues to shoot these photos before racing for my train.
Medics wheel a wounded man into the emergency department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after he was shot last week in Southwest Philadelphia. Tom Kelly IV photographed the scene for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project.
I recorded this celebration with a Flip video camera as a crowd watched President Obama’s first inauguaration ceremony on a large video screen on Idepedendence Mall in Philadelphia on January 20, 2009.
The Woodland String Band plays in the Philadelphia Mummers News Year’s Day Parade on South Broad Street.
The residents of #OccupyPhilly celebrate Thanksgiving with a turkey dinner on Dilworth Plaza at Philadelphia City Hall. The first holiday decorations also began to appear. photos