at the center of before and after is a series created through need.

In March of 2020 I got my first real camera, a Nikon D80, while I was home in Tyngsborough for a few days on spring break. I was in my apartment in Ithaca when I received an email that Ithaca College would extend our spring break, and that we would move to remote learning for
two weeks. After that, I did what was normal. I went to parties, I went to bars with friends, and I worked on my friend’s student film. Yet, I had this overwhelming feeling that things were about to change, beyond two weeks. I never experienced a feeling like that in my life, to be aware that everything was about to change and that nothing was going to be the same. I wanted to capture that feeling, capture what other people were doing, and see if everyone else was freaking out. Beyond that faint anxiety, I was thrilled in a way too. I took that new camera out and shot what I could, during what I now consider “the first week” of the pandemic. However, I was a shy photographer, what I really wanted to do was photograph people, but it ended up being more about the buildings around Ithaca.