Comprising more than one thousand portraits – including over one hundred 4-foot tall printed portrait banners – Masked NYC is part of the permanent collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Featured on NYC’s Fox5 News, 10/5/2020
On March 10, 2020, COVID-19 knocked me out. After weeks of labored breathing and a wide range of seemingly unrelated symptoms, I recovered, and created masked portraits of more than a thousand New Yorkers, with each subject’s or parent’s permission, in public places and using a telephoto lens to remain socially distanced.
Amidst the pandemic, and our country’s long overdue reckoning with racism, Masked NYC: Witness to Our Time is my effort to share the dignity, diversity, and resilience I have witnessed in my fellow New Yorkers during this momentous time. Below is a small selection from more than 1,000 portraits.
All profits realized from this project will be donated to the Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Relief Fund, founded by Colin Kaepernick to help address the pandemic’s disproportionate effect on our communities of color.
Friends Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place between East 15 and East 16 Streets, and between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, NYC
Along East 15 Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, NYC
Friends Meeting House and Friends Seminary, 15 Rutherford Place, between East 15 Street and East 16 Street, and between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, NYC
The corner of East 15 Street and Rutherford Place, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, NYC
Free exhibition of 8-foot by 5-foot flags at Rockefeller Plaza from March 27–April 30, 2021.