A world in a gaze

The artists whose faces appear in this gallery of portraits, 10 from among the hundreds featured in these pages over the past year, are at disparate points in their evolution. A budding starlet. A musician from the streets. A band reconnecting. A jazz singer, beginning to soar. What’s in their faces? Hope, humor, testiness -- even transcendence. Eyes as windows. Glimpses, perhaps, of souls.