Beauty Amidst the Ruins

Pandemic Journey photobook cover

Pandemic Journey, Harvard Square, Winter 2020, a photobook. On view at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, New York from November 20, 2021-December 4, 2022 and at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, January 6-February 27, 2022. To purchase a copy($35.00 plus postage) please contact Anita. (A friends and family discount is available).


About the Book
In the depths of the pandemic, in Winter, 2020, with many businesses shut down or under construction, a friend found Harvard Square so depressing that she didn’t want to go there. But I went to one of the few open cafés for coffee nearly every day. One morning, with the Square in near ruins, I found myself snapping photos, trying to capture as much of the present as I could before it became the past. I was mesmerized by the light, the colors, the lines, the shapes, the shadows, and the reflections in the changing scene. I felt part of that scene, experiencing my own transformation. I left inspired, excited to see what the Square—and the world– would look like after Covid, after Trump, after a difficult winter, a difficult year–and what new futures we will create for ourselves and for one another. This book is my first step in that creation.

Anita M Harris Beauty Amidst Photobook Images

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