Last Saturday was an amazing day. I have never seen DC party that hard. People were climbing bus stops, guzzling champagne, dancing, and no one could hide their smiles underneath their masks! I ran into a lot of fellow photographers, artists and family friends, most of which I haven't seen since March. It was a beautiful day.
It's been a minute since I have felt safe enough to go out and photograph protests and events like these. I avoided these situations out of fear of COVID-19. At the start of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer there was still a lot of uncertainty about how the virus spreads. Now we know how masks are effective and social distancing at 6 ft is key.
Well, I couldn't pass up shooting at Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC on Election Day and on Saturday when Biden was projected by the news networks to win, and it has paid off. I posted a few pics on IG and then was contacted quickly by The Metropolitan, an arts and culture site out of Detroit, who wanted to run them as a story. And then on Saturday, WTOP, a local news and radio outlet, published and aired an interview with me while I was out shooting in Black Lives Matter Plaza.
You can check out both of those published photo galleries here:
WTOP, “History in a single frame: DC-area street photographer freezes moment in time,” by Neal Augenstein (2020)
The Metropolitan, “Election Day in America, Washington, D.C.” (2020)