Portraits of 2022: Our favorite images shot by IBJ photographer Eric Learned

Fred Yeakey, Providence Cristo Rey vice president and an IBJ Forty Under 40 honoree in 2022 (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Luciana’s Mexican Restaurant and Cantina is a family affair. At front left is Luciana Bravo, the restaurant chain’s namesake. Behind her is her mother, Sarah Bravo, holding daughter Cecilia. At front right is Sarah’s husband, Alberto Bravo, holding daughter Natalia. Behind them is Debbie Bosworth, Sarah’s mother. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Fabio Viviani, a celebrity chef, through his Chicago-based Fabio Viviani Hospitality Group partnered with Giant Eagle’s Market District to open Osteria Carmel in the former Table by Market District space late last year. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

André Zhang Sonera, an IBJ 20 in their Twenties honoree in 2022, is deputy director of operations and strategic partnerships at the Indiana Arts Commission. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Shari Jenkins is the restauranteur behind the Zionsville mainstays Noah Grant’s Grill House & Oyster Bar and Salty Cowboy Tequileria. She’s now in the process of opening a new restaurant in Zionsville called Tipsy Mermaid Conch House & Cocktails. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Sugar Ray Seales, the only American boxer to win gold in the 1972 Olympics, moved to Indianapolis about 15 years ago and has been helping young boxers make their way in the sport. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Benedict Polizzi 2.2 million TikTok followers and a blossoming career in comedy. He starred on HBO Max’s “FBOY Island." (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Pacers center Myles Turner, right, finds himself teamed up with a raft of young players, including point guard Tyrese Haliburton, left. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Dr. Andre Creese, center, started OPYS to help staff rural hospitals. His team includes, from left, Dianely Noesi, schedule coordinator; Jenny Zo, regional manager; Karl Rademacher, IT director and financial analyst; and Brianne Thackrey, vice president of emergency & hospital medicine. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Titi Obasanya, Elevate Ventures entrepreneur-in-residence. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Crystal Miller, Indiana University Health Foundation president (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

The tie that has bound all of Allison Melangton’s endeavors has been knowing lots and lots of people, from lower-level employees to the city’s most prominent movers and shakers, and bringing them together for a common cause. She is IBJ's 2022 Carroll Award winner. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Kate Maxwell, chief technology officer, worldwide defense and intelligence, at Microsoft. She was a 2022 Tech Exec of the Year winner. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Constance Macy was named the third artistic director in the 39-year history of the Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Arte Mexicano en Indiana founder Eduardo Luna stands in front of a mural painted by Lee Rainboth, Samuel Peneloza and others at Super Tortas restaurant, 2641 W. Michigan St. (IBJ photo/ Eric Learned)

Cebronica Luft—co-founder of 317 Events and The Pavilion at Pan Am Plaza—has also co-founded Pulse Coffee in downtown Indianapolis. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Farmer Jim Love banded with neighbors to try to preserve farmland after he was asked to sell his 200-acre property northwest of Lebanon. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Charles Livingston started Lifeboost Coffee as a side project in 2015. But it has grown quickly, earning a spot on the top of IBJ's Fast 25 list for 2022.

Cynthia and Isaac Wilson broke ground this year on a 12,000-square-foot building that will be the new home of Kountry Kitchen Soul Food Place, which initially opened in the late 1980s as a modest six-stool countertop cafe but was lost to a fire. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Former state Sen. Luke Kenley is now leading the charge to persuade lawmakers to spend more on public health in Indiana. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Fourth-generation Hancock County farmer Jonathan Sparks says farmers have to “manage around” all the “things that we don’t have control over.” (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Fountain Fletcher District Association officers Justin Jones, president, and Laura Giffel, district manager, say the new name is meant to strengthen, not diminish, the existing neighborhoods. They are pictured at Bovaconti Coffee, 1042 Virginia Ave. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Jean Rydberg is CEO of Ikelite Underwater Systems, which an international business that manufactures, markets and sells underwater photography equipment. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

West Indianapolis Neighborhood Congress Treasurer Jonathan Howe at Neeld Ditch, the natural discharge point for a proposed treatment plant. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Brad Hoop and his therapy dog Gus have put smiles on the faces of hundreds of people for more than four years as part of Paws and Think, an organization that offers therapy animal services to Marion and its surrounding counties. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Ariana Cruz is director of marketing and outreach at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana. She was named an IBJ 20 in their Twenties honoree. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Gov. Eric Holcomb during a year-end interview with IBJ. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Artist Jackie Head used 350,000 plastic cups to create a 14,000-square-foot mural on a chain-link fence near the entrance of Indianapolis International Airport. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Will Hazen, 25, began driving buses for IndyGo three years ago, representing the fourth generation of his family to work in public transportation. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Justin Groff started mowing neighbors’ yards in Fishers when he was 9. Today, at 19, he runs Just-IN-Time Lawn Care & Landscaping, has 15 full-time employees. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Brandi Davis-Handy is chief customer officer at AES U.S. Utilities and a 2022 IBJ Woman of Influence. (IBJ photos/Eric Learned)

Zach Garrett founded Liftify, a Zionsville-based company that helps manage online reviews, in 2020. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Gallery Pastry owner Alison Keefer said she wants to bring colorful macarons and chocolate mousse “pillows” to the Art Moderne building at 46th and College where she plans to open a restaurant. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Don Fischer is the only working play-by-play announcer who has called at least 49 consecutive seasons of both football and basketball. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Heather Ernst is the global senior HR leader at Rolls-Royce Global Defense Services where she led a nine-month process to restructure human resources. She was one of IBJ's inaugural HR Impact award winners. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Tony Dzwonar served on the Washington Township Schools board before he decided to help fill a need and become a school bus driver. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Ann Elisabeth Dryer, chief financial officer at Commonwealth Engineers Inc., was an IBJ CFO of the Year winner in 2022. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Ray Donaldson was a member of the Colts from 1980 to 1993, playing 184 games and tying for then-second place in length of service, behind only Johnny Unitas’ 17 seasons. He moved back to Indianapolis after his playing career ended. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Racing company co-owner Sarah Fisher O'Gara, left; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology professor Carlotta Berry, top; Indiana State University President Deborah Curtis, right; and Director of Marketing and Outreach, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana, corporate secretary and general counsel at Elanco Animal Health, graced the cover of IBJ's Woman of Influence publication in 2022. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

Competitive eater Joey Chestnut, who lives in Westfield, competed in a popcorn-eating competition at Victory Field in 2022. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)

my Beers, author, “Indianapolis Beer Stories: History to Modern Craft in Circle City Brewing” (IBJ photo/Eric Learned)