Neighbors in Quarantine.
While under lockdown orders in New York City, I wrote letters to my neighbors asking to photograph them from our adjoined fire escape. Additional notes on the project below.
NOTES:
“I started this project two or three weeks into New York's instituted lockdown. I had been working on a few different photographic projects around the house, but as a portrait photographer, wanted to see how I could photograph people in a way that highlights the disconnect that we're all feeling, but in a fresh way. At the time, my neighborhood of Washington Heights had the highest number of C-19 cases in Manhattan.
I was inspired by the idea of writing letters to people I didn't know asking them to participate by Shizuka Yokomizo's series titled "Dear Stranger." I was spending a lot of time out on my fire escape and thinking about how there was this infrastructure that connects me to other people that's typically only used during an emergency.
The idea of connecting with people through this structure that's used in an emergency, during a global emergency was instantly exciting for me.”
- Interview with American Photography.