Leila Navidi

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Roller girl: Wednesday, July 11, 2012; Being backstage at a pageant is not glamorous. That’s why I love it.
Getting pumped up: Tuesday, July 3, 2012; Grunting. Screaming. Whatever it takes to win.
Last drumroll: Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010; Mickey O’Neill, a 61-year-old drummer in a local Irish band, had outpatient laparoscopic surgery to remove his gall bladder June 2.
Rolling in for a short stay at the Las Vegas KOA: Sunday, April 25, 2010; Children from Mexico, Sweden, Canada and California play in the heated pool. Americans and Canadians mingle and chat about ice hockey in the Jacuzzi.
Photographer looks at our fascination with fame: Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010; On the red carpet, the celebrity is almost secondary.
Leila Navidi - Behind the curtain: Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009; I am always trying to get behind the curtain. Whether the curtain is real or a metaphor — like the orchestration of an event or invisible social barriers — when I take photos I’m always trying to get on the other side.
For 51s player, a break from media day: Tuesday, April 28, 2009; The Las Vegas 51s’ Jeremy Accardo relaxes during media day April 7 at Cashman Field.
Protesters march against closure of F Street: Saturday, April 18, 2009; Nearly 100 people rallied against the closure of F Street today, marching down the Las Vegas Strip, passing out flyers and chanting, "No justice, no peace, reopen F Street!"
Photos: Final bow for ‘Folies Bergere’: Friday, March 27, 2009; Almost 50 years have passed since “Folies Bergere” staged its first performance at the Tropicana. “Folies Bergere” will stage its last performance at the Tropicana on Saturday night.
Students compete, inspire: Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009; During the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Festival on Tuesday, students from kindergarten to high school competed in several categories with the common theme of "Living the Dream and Setting New Heights."

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Photos: AVN Fan show 2012: Friday, Jan. 20, 2012; Vibrating outfits, 3D porn and more.

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Leila Navidi has been a staff photographer at the Las Vegas Sun since 2007. Before the Sun, she worked at the Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and for the Greenspun Media Group publication, The News. She hails from the great state of Maryland, where, growing up, she enjoyed dressing up her friends and photographing them inside old barns. She obtained her B.A. in Applied Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, in sunny Rochester, N.Y. Leila loves living in Las Vegas because it is quirky, unpredictable, colorful, shiny, bright, sunny, hot, sweaty, and bold. In her free time, she enjoys car camping, eating frozen pizza, running, reading and traveling to the far reaches of the continental United States.