For my photo essay idea, I had a few ideas floating around my head. My main idea is to follow local artists in town as they’ve continued to create–or in fact, create more– during the pandemic. I want to highlight the local artists in my community who have also turned their creations into small online businesses. I think this would be interesting as it would show how the arts have become a method to help cope with the pandemic. This feels like the most feasible for me.
My other ideas include: first, following college freshman who are dealing with their first semester at home; second, following a local Thai restaurant that is very active on social media and the helps the local BLM protestors; and lastly, documenting the weekly Black Lives Matter protestors at the local courthouse. The final idea would seem like a good one considering the circumstances we are in, but I am not entirely sure about the logistics or in fact, safety, since they were met with backlash from anti-protestors two weeks ago.