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Around The Horn
27 March 2020
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at #ICPConcerned, Jenia Fridlyand, Czeslaw Siegieda, shopping, portraits and pizza, a new newspaper and Maurice Berger.
- The International Center of Photography has launched #ICPConcerned: A Forum for All to Document the COVID-19 Pandemic. "Share your images and stories with ICP by using #ICPConcerned on Instagram and we'll post select images on @ICP."
- In Jenia Fridlyand Shares Poetic Photos of Family Life on Her Farm, FotoRoom presents Fridlyand's monochrome images of her 200-acre farm in the Hudson River Valley published in her photo book Entrance to Our Valley, inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Mike Johnston and Andrew Molitor both had recent pieces on the pastoral images.
- In Polska Britannica: An Unseen Document of Leicester's Polish Community, Marigold Warner explores Czeslaw Siegieda's documentation of a generation of Poles who arrived in England as refugees.
- Harold Davis recounts what getting supplies for eight is like in Shopping in the Time of the Coronavirus. We've been impressed with the simpler protocols Trader Joe's has put in place, disinfecting shoppers on their way in and providing wiped down baskets or carts.
- Kirk Tuck reflects on The Hardest Part of the 'Shelter in Place' Regimen: not making portraits. But he also details his routine for handling a pizza delivery without gloves, which (unlike Davis above) does not involve stripping buck naked.
- We have a soft spot for new publishing ventures in this dark age for publishing so we were delighted to read Todd Lappin's 'Six Feet of Separation' Is the New Newspaper by Bernal Heights Kids. The free newspaper even accepts submissions from budding photographers.
- We note the passing of Maurice Berger, 63, of heart failure related to coronavirus. Berger, who was a curator, wrote series of essays the Lens blog of The New York Times under the rubric Race Stories, which we always cited here. "As a Jew, I have known anti-Semitism," he wrote in one piece for Lens. "As a gay man, I have known homophobia. But neither has seemed as relentless as the racism I witnessed growing up -- a steady drumbeat of slights, thinly veiled hostility and condescension perpetrated by even the most liberal and well-meaning people."
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