COVID-19 Story Project
The COVID-19 Story Project is a collection of images, written works, and audiovisual works that document the experience of LaGuardia Community College members throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic.
As the pandemic continues we are still collecting materials. If you would like to contribute something that represents your experience during this difficulty time, please visit our submission form here: https://shortlib.org/s/covidstories
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- Student Photo Essay
- This is a student photo essay assignment given at the beginning of the Covid lock down. The photo essays came from Non-Verbal Communication course HUC 119. Students were required to document their lived experience during the early stages of the pandemic through a non-verbal artifact - photo.
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- Student Reflection - Zhang Yu
- It talked about my view of the spread of COVID-19 around the world and its name.
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- Thank you to all...
- Photographed in Woodside, Queens
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- The Essentials
- I spoke to this gentleman and I forgot to ask his name. He saw me photographing and we started to have a discussion while the train was at a halt. "It's empty," he said. "But, there are some people who still have work in the city and then need to go home." We both knew he was one of those people. We discussed about how empty the trains have been and how it is a good thing, it's easier to control the interactions and enforece social distance. He worried about getting the Corona Virus. He has a wife and children to go gome to every night. I hope that wherever he is, his health is intact as well as his family's Photos taken at LIRR Station 61st stop. Woodside, Queens
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- The Essentials
- According to Merriam-Webster, Underdog, un•der•dog (noun) is defined as: 1. A loser or predicted loser in a struggle or contest./ NYC is one of the few cities where mom-and-pop shops can still compete against the big box stores that have turned the country into a never ending strip mall. Bodegas are not only a staple of this grand city, but they also serve as a landmark to reassure you that you're almost home. With a pandemic waging war on the economy, the scales are tipped even further in Goliath's favor. This is the face of a local 'David'. He sits at the entrance of his bodega in my Queens neighborhood, surrounded by homemade precaution signs, braving danger for his livelihood clutching onto a fading remnant of a community many call home. #supportlocaIbusinesses Photo taken in Woodside, Queens
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- The Essentials
- I spoke to this gentleman and I forgot to ask his name. He saw me photographing and we started to have a discussion while the train was at a halt. "It's empty," he said. "But, there are some people who still have work in the city and then need to go home." We both knew he was one of those people. We discussed about how empty the trains have been and how it is a good thing, it's easier to control the interactions and enforece social distance. He worried about getting the Corona Virus. He has a wife and children to go gome to every night. I hope that wherever he is, his health is intact as well as his family's Photos taken at LIRR Station 61st stop. Woodside, Queens
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- The Essentials
- As I was waiting for my Lyft to pick me up from the local Stop & Shop, I spotted a flock of pigeons across the market. They seemed to be pecking the ground as if they were being fed, a visual you don't often see these days as we are all instructed to limit our outings and follow through with the mandated quarantine. I saw this man with a bag of Wonderbread, breaking it into pieces and making sure each bird recieved a ration. I approached him, "You don't see this anymore," as I pointed to the birds and the bread on the ground. He smiled and then he replied, "The people who used to come and feed 'em aren't able to come anymore. But, we gottri take turns and help out these little guys." He informed me that he was on his break from working at the Stop & Shop. He and some other colleagues come out with food items to make sure that the birds and the squirrels who once depended on the generosity of others- have something in their stomachs by the end of each day. Photographed outside of Stop & Shop 34-51 48th St, Queens, NY 11104
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- The Essentials
- I spoke to this gentleman and I forgot to ask his name. He saw me photographing and we started to have a discussion while the train was at a halt. "It's empty," he said. "But, there are some people who still have work in the city and then need to go home." We both knew he was one of those people. We discussed about how empty the trains have been and how it is a good thing, it's easier to control the interactions and enforece social distance. He worried about getting the Corona Virus. He has a wife and children to go gome to every night. I hope that wherever he is, his health is intact as well as his family's Photos taken at LIRR Station 61st stop. Woodside, Queens
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- The Essentials
- As I was waiting for my Lyft to pick me up from the local Stop & Shop, I spotted a flock of pigeons across the market. They seemed to be pecking the ground as if they were being fed, a visual you don't often see these days as we are all instructed to limit our outings and follow through with the mandated quarantine. I saw this man with a bag of Wonderbread, breaking it into pieces and making sure each bird recieved a ration. I approached him, "You don't see this anymore," as I pointed to the birds and the bread on the ground. He smiled and then he replied, "The people who used to come and feed 'em aren't able to come anymore. But, we gottri take turns and help out these little guys." He informed me that he was on his break from working at the Stop & Shop. He and some other colleagues come out with food items to make sure that the birds and the squirrels who once depended on the generosity of others- have something in their stomachs by the end of each day. Photographed outside of Stop & Shop 34-51 48th St, Queens, NY 11106
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