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Photographer Scott Elmquist is a 25-year veteran of Style Weekly (VPM). Photo credit: Shea Elmquist

November 25, 2024

A Lifetime of Photos

In celebration of photographer Scott Elmquist's Lifetime Achievement Award, here are 25 of his most memorable images.

In celebration of this week’s announcement that Style Weekly photographer Scott Elmquist has been named the 2024 Society of Professional Journalists Lifetime Achievement award winner (Virginia Pro Chapter), here are 25 memorable images from his quarter-century career working for Style Weekly and VPM.

Pink pony club member at the sold-out Chappell Roan concert, Brown’s Island, 2024.

2. Vindicatrix, Monument Avenue, 2020.

Jermione Royster, 11, boxes almost everyday after school at his father’s gym located in abandoned elementary school on city’s northside. Royster’s father Jerry has been teaching at-risk youth to box for over 20 years.

3. Boxer Jermione Royster, 11, Richmond’s Northside.

After their performance at the Festival of the River on Brown’s Island, the River City Magnolias synchronized swim team take a break to watch a performance by members of the Stavna Ballet.

4. The River City Magnolias, Brown’s Island, 2018.

5. Richmond public schools superintendent Jason Kamras, Mayor Levar Stoney and Councilman Mike Jones addressing the press after a mass shooting incident. Monroe Park, 2023.

6. Country music at Hardees, Jefferson Davis Highway, 2011.

Kendall Lands, 9, competes in equine events at the Virginia State Fair with her horse Snowman.

7. Kendall Lands and her horse Snowball at the Virginia State Fair, 2016.

8. Sampa the Great at Friday Cheers, 2023.

9. The Ultimate Air Dog competition during Dominion Energy Riverrock, Brown’s Island, 2014.

Grosijean Moore, Detroit, Michigan fires up the crowd in Monroe Park before the march.

10. Fight for $15 rally, Monroe Park, 2016.

Gulmira Elham, 20, a Virginia Commonwealth student listens to remarks at a rally opposing President Trump’s Muslim ban on January 29, 2017. The rally took place on the grounds of the Viriginia Commonwealth University. She said “What made me resist that day, as a first-generation immigrant, I was scared and felt abandoned. After the event, I felt hope and had belief in people for ll of us. Alos I learned the Muslims are not alone and we are all in this together.”

11. Gulmira Elham, 20, Muslim Ban rally, VCU 2017.

12. Vietnam veteran Jeff Talley on Broad Street, 2009.

13. A baptism in the James River, 2010.

Virgina Captiol police arrest Camille Rudney (wearing red pants) and her sister Sarah Rudney on the steps of the State Capitol on during a women’s rights protest on March 3. Thirty-one people total were arrested.

14. Women’s rights protest, Virginia State Capitol, 2011.

15. Coal train, Scott’s Addition, 2007.

16. Rev. Ben Campbell, Richmond Hill, 2008.

17. Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams, Monument Avenue, 2020.

18. Tim Kaine and his mother celebrating on election night, 2012, Richmond.

19. Richmond Free Press founder Raymond Boone, Franklin Street, Richmond, 2009.

The Robert E. Lee statue on the morning of removal, September 7, 2021. The bronze statue stood on Monument Avenue since 1890 in Richmond, Virginia.

20. Removal day for the Robert E. Lee statue, Sept. 8, 2021

21. Isaiah Prince “Trombone” Robinson, Robert E. Lee monument, 2020

22. Homeless advocate Rhonda Sneed at the Richmond Coliseum, 2021.

Allan Melton, 9, cries during a vigil for his father and uncle who were murdered in a double homicide on May 28th. He is comforted by Alicia Rasin, the founder of Citizens Against Crime, a group that rallied around the families of Richmond’s 78 murder victims last year.

23. Murder vigil, Church Hill, 2006.

Particpants of Confederate Heritage rally raise a massive Confederate flag at the Robert E. Lee monument on Nov 28, 2009.

24. Confederate flag at the Robert E. Lee Monument, 2009.

25. Naturalization ceremony, Virginia History and Culture Museum, 2019.

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