Like most of us, photographer Beth Galton found herself isolated at home in her New York City apartment in the early Spring of 2020, uncertain of what the future would hold. Unable to access her studio safely, she brought her photo equipment home and set up a small set next to a window.
As the Spring wore on she found herself obsessing over the headlines, maps and charts published daily in the NYT and the Washington Post tracking the spread and began saving and printing them. With the realization that they represented the shared experience of millions of people around the world, she knew she would use them somehow in her photographs as a way of processing the magnitude of the experience.
Bewth began working on the series in March of 2020, and says, “By photographing this data and images combined with botanicals, my intent is to speak to the humanity of those affected by this epidemic. Motion in the images was utilized to help convey the chaos and apprehensions we were all experiencing. Once assembled, I now see that these images are a visual diary of my life with Covid-19; the politics of the time and the way it has affected our lives.”