Empty street corners, quiet monuments and the distant echo of life in the time of coronavirus 📸
A street corner in South Philadelphia normally exists in a different space from the shores of the Tidal Basin in Washington, but this spring they share more than falling cherry blossoms: Each is empty save for a few lonely figures wandering in acts of courage or defiance. America looks different without people. It looks different from behind the wheel of a car, the only risk-free means of transportation these days.
Photographer M. Scott Mahaskey—himself a former embed in war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq—trained his camera on a different kind of danger zone, this one his own home territory of Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia.Viewed from the same passenger-side windows as in his armored cars, these once-familiar landscapes took on new psychic dimensions, at once forbidding and welcoming. And just like in Afghanistan and Iraq, he found more than a touch of reassuring humanity in the gentle spring air.
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