April 16, 2019

By: John A. Carlos II

37th annual St. Pat's in Five Points, on March 17, 2019. John A. Carlos II / Special to The Free Times

What can I say this past month was crazy, these months in the calendar always are. People emerge from winter ready to take on the world... and have a little fun. I saw a lot this March saw a man who was 7 foot and 6 inches tall who was named Fall. It was my first time photographing the madness of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, it was my fourth time photographing the annual Indie Grits Film Festival. I got to see people shake their bodies to a song inspired to some degree by the candy Tootsie Rolls, and I got to see a community come together over a fallen classmate. 

Photos from the South Carolina baseball game against Clemson at Founders Park, in Columbia on March 3, 2019.

John A. Carlos II / Special to The Post and Courier

Clemon basketball legend Colon Abraham.

Brittany Kilpatrick

Bobby W. Baker

37th annual St. Pat's in Five Points, on March 17, 2019.

John A. Carlos II / Special to The Free Times

Photos from the 1st and 2nd round of the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, at The Colonial Life Arena, in Columbia.

John A. Carlos II / Special to The Free Times

Capital City Hoop & Music Fest on March 23, 2019.

John A. Carlos II / Special to The Free Times

The 13th Indie Grits Festival spanned four days in March 2019.

John A. Carlos II / Special to The Free Times

Hundreds of University of South Carolina students gathered for a candlelight vigil held for their slain classmate Samantha Josephson, on March 31, 2019. At the vigil, her father Seymour Josephson expressed his vow to help prevent this from ever happening again. Samantha was murdered in the morning early hours of March 29, 2019, after getting into a vehicle which she mistook for an Uber she hailed.   John A. Carlos II / Special to The Post and Courier

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