Writer – Photographer – Educator
The story behind the image Today I'd like to share with you the story of an image I made last summer, during the Covid-19 quarantine. It's an image I called "Under the Covid-19 Dome" and one that was included in The Pandemic Archive Project. So, here it goes: I was out on the balcony, sipping [...]
Drawing parallels between AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics (or how HIV and AIDS has inspired creative work capturing Coronavirus and Covid-19) Several people, on different occasions, have asked me to talk about similarities and differences between the pandemic of the eighties (or the eighties' "plague," how Larry Kramer called it) and the current, Coronavirus pandemic. While [...]
A visual representation of the evolution of mental distress caused by the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic I've thought about photographing pain (physical and mental) in a series of self-portraits, but found it difficult to capture pain, in action, as it targets one's own self, mind, and body. Thinking of pain and how we perceive ourselves and [...]
What to consider if/when resuming photographing people this Covid-19 summer? It's mid-July and Coronavirus is still very much with us. While some states have made significant progress "flattening the curve," others, not so much. Regardless of the state, Coronavirus is still everywhere in the air, invisible to the naked eye, and deadly. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBOgqwtjl4g/ "Under the [...]
Six notes for the first six months of 2020.
Alina Oswald 