Author: theheroesofcovid19_mg4582

It’s now two solid years since I started this project. Last year I “finished” the project by re-photographing three nurses on the anniversary of their first photos. I’m doing that again. Someone asked if I was going to keep doing this and I think I might. I’ve known these people…

Excited that the Philadelphia Weekly has decided devote their entire March 17th issue to Between Us and Catastrophe as we approach the two year anniversary of lockdown. You can read it here.  I remember quite well this time last year when it all seemed to be over. And it very…

Each of the photos in Between Us and Catastrophe is printed through a discarded mask. I did this for a few reasons, one is that in the early days of the pandemic I was obsessed with masks — specifically where to get one. We’d heard about them on TV and…

I thought, as the one year anniversary of COVID approached that I’d be winding down photography and eventually figured that I’d do one last photo — of the first nurse I photographed, one the one year anniversary of my first photo, I’d talk to her and then that would be…

The Science History Institute’s Distillation’s podcast has come out with a new episode, an interview with Linda, one of the COVID nurses I photographed.  it’s hard on a lot of levels. It’s just heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking to be like the patient’s only, you’re only the only person they see, ever.…

The design team at the Science History Institute has been recognized for their really wonderful exhibit by Free the Museum which looks for ways to bring museum exhibits to people in the non-traditional time of COVID-19. I’m fortunate to have been able to work with these people who are thinking…

I was happy to appear on “Hi, I’m Jason” with Jason Pollack and Justin Gonzalez to talk about these portraits. It was a really nice interview. This is a 22 minute excerpt from it.  Click here to watch on youtube On the episode before me they had two of the…

I’ve never seen a gallery show come together so quickly. This week the Science History Institute installed six of the photos in a giant outside exhibit that is something like ten feet tall and thirty feet wide. The exhibit will include a station where passers-by can take a post-card with…

There’s a short piece in the Philly Voice about the show written by Sinead Cummings and a photo of Travis. Click here to read it.

I heard from Mariel Carr at the Science History Institute on 3rd and Chestnut that they’re interested in producing a gallery exhibit of photos from this collection in an outdoor exhibit. It’s really nice to think that people are thinking about ways to show art safely and also that people…