Truist Bank named a new CEO on Monday, June 15.
Ali Costellow
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Through the lens of our visual journalists, a moment in time is captured and becomes part of our history.
Each week the Charlotte Observer will present a selection of images that document communities.
This feature can be seen in Sunday’s newspaper and on our online Edition at eedition.charlotteobserver.com
Newly graduated Ty’Barious Young (right) and Messiah Weatherford throw their caps into the air at the end of the Ballantyne Ride High School graduation at the Bojangles Coliseum on Saturday, June 13, 2026. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
Luca Contreras (1) naps in the shade of the Ballantyne Ride High School graduation program while his graduate sister, Nikary Consoles, takes photos after the ceremony at the Bojangles Coliseum on Saturday, June 13, 2026. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
Anari Smith (7) wears a t-shirt in support of a Ballantyne Ride High School graduating senior on Saturday, June 13, 2026 outside the Bojangles Coliseum. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
A Ballantyne Ride High School student is congratulated after receiving their diploma on Saturday, June 13, 2026 at the Bojangles Coliseum. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
Ballantyne Ride High School Counselor and Girls Lacrosse Coach Aliisa Mason congratulates Madison Smith after graduating at the Bojangles Coliseum on Saturday, June 13, 2026. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
Truist Bank named a new CEO on Monday, June 15. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
Mother and daughter Christina Jenkins (left) and Amelie Jenkins cosplay Sailor Mars from “Sailor Moon” and Pompompurin from “Hello Kitty” at Heroes Convention on Friday, June 12, 2026 at the Charlotte Convention Center. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
From left: Lily Reavis-Goodson (17), Kennedy Armstrong (17), Jaxx Dunwoody and Sawyer Bolton (12) react to the Heroes Convention cosplay contest on Friday, June 12, 2026 at the Charlotte Convention Center. The group dressed as Frank-N-Furter and Janet Weiss from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” GIR from “Invader Zim” and Pete the Cat from “Pete the Cat,” respectively. Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
Fergus Mota, in Daredevil cosplay, adjusts his handmade “billy club” after the Heroes Convention cosplay contest on Friday, June 12, 2026 at the Charlotte Convention Center. Mota said he chooses to cosplay Daredevil because the character is a “good fictional display of the unbreakable human spirit.” Ali Costellow ali.costellow@charlotteobserver.
