Mesa, Arizona. Kids watching a desert sunset. The kids hang out, play music, and talk. Photograph by Erica Larson//Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

Jessica Thorstenson checks her text messages in Tube, a local hangout for late night DJ's in Portland, Oregon, October 3, 2008. Michael Rubenstein//Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

An 18-year-old girl in her bedroom. She hangs her favorite fashion pictures on her bedroom walls and wants to be a photographer or a broadcast journalist. She plays guitar, takes pictures, and loves Guitar Hero. Tina Macri, 18, Mesa, Arizona. Photograph by Erica Larson/Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

Iman Aziz, age 20, relaxing at a park in Parma, Ohio, down the street from the Islamic Center of Cleveland. Born and raised in Cleveland, she is a third generation Palestinian-American from “just a typical American family” who thinks “religion is the most important thing.” A community college student, she wants to work in high fashion eventually, either for magazines like Vogue or Harper’s Bazaar, or to become a designer herself. Her dreams, influenced by the richness of Western couture and the more modest style of the Middle East, illustrate the competing identities that many Muslims in America must grapple with. “I was born in America and I consider myself American,” Aziz says, “but I also still consider myself Palestinian.” Photograph by Greg Ruffing/Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

Simon, 22, and Simeon, 23, met at the Bronx Zoo a year ago. Today, they are happily living as a gay couple in Willamsburg, starting their adult lives in the city together. Photograph by Erica Larson/Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

Garrett Steele and his canoe filled with clam baskets, Deer Isle, Maine. It was early in the season and the catch was small, but they look forward to August when the catch will be larger. They repair the traps and trap lines in their workshop. Peter Frank Edwards/Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

Ishtayopi Jones, 18, lives on the Oneida Nation’s reservation in eastern Wisconsin. Their reservation, located just west of Green Bay, is both urban and suburban. With a population of about 20,000, the Oneida are one of eleven Federally-recognized Native American tribes in Wisconsin. Photograph by Kevin J. Miyazaki/Redux/Courtesy FOVEA

A young woman hanging out in Secaucus, New Jersey. Photograph by Joshua Lutz/Redux/ Courtesy FOVEA