Our local corner store had been closed, kind of conspicuously, for more than a week with a cryptic sign out front saying it was being cleaned. We’d been there a few times over the past month and the last time the owner had taken his mask off while talking to…
View More My COVID-19 TestLayers of Betweenness
As I do more photos I’m thinking more and more about what makes this different from anything else I’ve done — why is this different from Librarians or soldiers or anything else. Wrapping my head around the whys makes it easier, I think, for me to push through the doing. …
View More Layers of BetweennessIn the neighborhood
Drive through testing centers are popping up all over West Philly. I photograph one of the first ones in Philly back in March and it was a big, strange deal — they were just figuring it out at the time and the hospital was excited to have me come by…
View More In the neighborhoodIn the neighborhood
Initially I’d been doing most of my photography in the near dark. Doctors and nurses usually change shifts at 7:00 — a.m. or p.m. after a 12 hour shift. So I’d be photographing either at 5:30 in the morning, or at 8:00 in the evening, but lately I’ve been photographing…
View More In the neighborhoodPodcast
Happy to have talked with Reef the Lost Cauze, Johnny Goodtimes and Violations Greg about this project (and a few others) on their podcast about Philly. They normally broadcast from a bar in the city, but we talked over Zoom. They did manage to find a somewhat heroic photo of…
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Ultrasound Tech
Photographed Karen, an ultrasound tech today. It was drizzling and we wandered around for a while in the rain looking for a nice place. She’d been panicked that there wasn’t enough PPE for everyone in the hospital, but her neighbors came together and got her masks and gloves. She had…
View More Ultrasound TechThe Mayor
I was super paranoid about going inside a building. My wife made me a mask out of a bandana and two hair ties and I went off to city hall (on my bike). The place was locked up very tightly but eventually I found the one open entrance. Signed in,…
View More The MayorPhotographing the Mayor
Linda Huss at the City of Philadelphia got back to me. After the streets department retweeted my photo of Zack and his crew the mayor retweeted it and the district attorney and a lot of other people. I’ve got permission to photograph the mayor at the daily press conference. I’ve…
View More Photographing the MayorPhotographing an Instacart Shopper
It’s taken a while to find an Instacart shopper but I finally met Kishia Nixon (online) and I’m going to photograph her in front of the supermarket where she’s been working. I’m bringing two cameras and an external flash. The weather has been great for me (cloudly) for days but…
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