Through a camera lens, US students find images to sum up life in the pandemic


Burke talks with his student Tristan Laos-Green about his photography project at Boone High in Orlando. Burke had his students take photos about how Covid-19 has changed their community. — Orlando Sentinel/TNS

ORLANDO, Florida: The assignment was to capture in photographs what already weighed heavily on most everyone’s mind: The way the coronavirus pandemic had altered their lives.

Students in John Burke’s creative photography class at Boone High School had no shortage of ideas. They took photos of empty refrigerators, discarded face masks, overdue bills, at-home haircuts.

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