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Emptiness Around Us
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Emptiness Around Us
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The month of April found me back in my parents home in a suburb of Albany, NY. My university was closed, and I was forced to move out of my on-campus housing a month earlier. All of my classes continues online, and my film photography class was required to move to a digital photography platform as we were not allowed access to our university’s darkroom to develop our film. I found myself wondering how to find subject matter amidst a global pandemic, where at the time grocery stores were just about the only places open, in what I considered to be the most boring small town in America. After weeks of submitting photo after photo of my backyard, house, dogs, and siblings, my professor asked me to try and find a new subject for my photos. I really had no idea what else to photograph, but on a trip to Target for groceries with my mother, I found myself wandering through row after row of bare, colorless shelves. I took a photo of this to send to my father, proving that there was not a roll of toilet paper to be had, but then thought about how interesting it could be to document the rows and rows of desolate shelves, leading me to a new subject for my photography class assignments: emptiness. I moved from documenting empty shelves, to empty parks, to empty streets. Emptiness was a subject I could find nearly everywhere I looked during the coronavirus pandemic. Looking back on these photos a few months later, I am so glad I was able to use an art form I love to document what life was like during this strange and scary time in our world. I hope that years from now, my photos could help someone have some idea of how empty our world truly felt during this time.
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08/10/2020
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08/12/2020
10/13/2020
12/06/2020
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Bus |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Street |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Park |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Rows |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Ledge |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Shelf |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Plaza |
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 Emptiness Around Us: Empty Aisle |
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This item was submitted on August 10, 2020 by Emily Lynch, Fordham University using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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