The Corner of Covid and Main St. began as a project aimed to provide an unbiased personal look into the lives of Americans affected by the pandemic.
The sweeping vistas of ghost town streets with eerily empty stadiums and restaurants were often used as a representation of this unprecedented time. The true subject in reality always was and will forever be the individual, the people experiencing and living through it. Like so many human catastrophes and widespread disasters, the multitude of individual lives become lost in the larger narrative. Covid essentially became an image of fear, isolation and segregation.
The Corner of Covid and Main Street aimed to amplify the everyday individual. Singularly, each portrait depicts humans forging strength, and as a collection it serves as a powerful voice, illustrating the sheer courage and resilience we collectively carry in the face of adversity.
As these portraits were shared online it resonated with local and national media, pulling the project across the United States. With over 1,000 portraits taken on 230 rolls of film, covering a 7000 mile journey throughout the United States, It may possibly be the largest and most diverse collection of American portraits captured during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.