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‘Una gran familia’: How WhatsApp helped a small Brooklyn school remain a big family in the face of isolation and grief

José A. Alvarado Jr.

The messages pinged at all hours, pleas from parents frantically trying to keep up with remote learning as the coronavirus pandemic took hold of New York City. A password for Zoom lessons. The third grade class schedule. Trouble logging into an email account. Each one was urgent. Some were dire. Unpaid utility bills. No food in the house...

Barriers to Learning

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Plastic Dividers and Masks All Day: What Teaching in a Pandemic Looks Like Commissioned by The New York Times Featured on The New York Times 2020 Year in Pictures Text by Erica Green Zia Hellman prepared to welcome her kindergarten students back to Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School. Ms. Hellman was among about two dozen teachers..

DOCU Magazine Interview

My Tokyo Jazz Joints project was featured this week on the Docu Magazine IG account and is also available in the printed copy of the magazine. The fabulous Docu Magazine is run out of Helsinki in Finland by editor-in-chief Tuomas Koskialho. Watch the interview at the link or get a copy of the magazine by clicking here .

Pandemic 360: A comprehensive look at COVID’s impact on school communities

José A. Alvarado Jr.

Anxiety. Depression. Cabin fever. Isolation. These words appeared over and over when we asked our readers in New York City and Newark earlier this year to tell us how the pandemic impacted their school communities. We heard from 275 parents, students, and teachers — and the responses were jarring. Relatives had died of COVID, and jobs..

Vanessa Nakate, for The New York Times

Esther Ruth Mbabazi

Erased From a Davos Photo, a Ugandan Climate Activist Is Back in the Picture When Vanessa Nakate, 24, was cropped out of a wire photo featuring her and four white activists, it drew attention that she now uses to expand her work in Uganda and beyond.

Stranger's Guide An Ode to Bogotá

One of my photographs for the chronicle An Ode to Bogotá with 3rd image on the right side. Invitation to collaboration work with Sonia Bohorquez, Stephen Ferry and Andrés Ríos. More quality in: https://www.juanpaez.net/tearsheets/ Caption. During the day of protests that occurred in Bogotá for the murder..

Travel Photography (Dodho Magazine); City Landscape by Maximilian Chini

maximilian chini

Travel Photography; City Landscape by Maximilian Chini | Dodho The landscape of cities is often the very first image we have of a country. As soon as we land at the airport, with a taxi or a fast train we are taken to a city and we begin to have an impression on the culture, the people, on wealth or poverty...

Ecuador: Community Education

Children Education Epidemics Human Rights Latin America Media Photography Photojournalism Revolution Womens Rights

ECUADOR: COMMUNITY EDUCATION When the pandemic struck Ecuador it forced many indigenous and African-Ecuadorian families to return to the places they were born. This work highlights a renewed sense of community in the Andean highlands and the coastal rainforest bordering Colombia. Isolated populations were hit hardest by school closures. The..

The displaced of the Nyiragongo eruption in Bukavu

Media Photography Photojournalism

The city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is for the moment spared from the flow of lava that has invaded some villages located in the northeast of the city, following a volcanic eruption that was triggered on the northeast flank of the Nyiragongo volcano on Saturday, May 22, at around 6 p.m. local time. This Sunday..

Portraits

Chris Rusanowsky

Documentary Editorial Essays Media Photojournalism Portraiture

Moments

Chris Rusanowsky

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Smithsonian Magazine IG Takeover

I'm doing a takeover of the Smithsonian Magazine Instagram account this week, sharing work from "Landfall" and "Rancho." Please follow along! Login • Instagram Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

Scott Stringer Says He Is ‘the Comeback Kid’ in New York City’s Mayoral Race

José A. Alvarado Jr.

When New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced last September he was running for mayor, he was widely considered the Democratic front-runner, positioning himself as the progressive candidate with a long history of public service and the managerial experience needed to lead an economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Nine months..

Diaspora on the Frontlines

Covid-19 Documentary Essays Filipino nursing diaspora Health/Healing Hope Media Nurses Nursing Pandemic Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Relationships

Diaspora on the Frontlines (ongoing) Story and photographs featured on - National Geographic - GMA Philippines - Rappler Philippines supported by The National Geographic Society Nearly 32 percent of the 213 registered nurses who have died of COVID and related complications are of..

On Rest of World: Tech for disabled people is booming around the world. So where’s the funding?

Assignment for tech publication Rest of World with text by Devi Lockwood. Unlike many other technologies that are intended to help people, assistive technology changes lives; but until companies recognize its potential, proposals and innovations will stay at the fringes. May 20 was Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Rest of World wanted to..

The Plight and the Path: At the Intersection of Race and Gender by Rahima Rice

The Daring Magazine

The Daring Simone and Lorde A monthly column about sexuality, womanhood, and power by Rahima Rice. Audre Lorde, a namesake of this column, was a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” She came to prominence during a time in the 1970s when women were fighting for ultimate liberation. Women on the frontlines of this..

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