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Community in Focus (Week 3)

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The Phillips Collection invites everyone to participate in Community in Focus, a community project to capture a unique photographic snapshot of an unprecedented year. We asked you to show us your inimitable spirit, suffering, joy, and resilience, and here are some images that captures those human emotions that connect us all. Stay tuned for more photos and submit your own!

Sarah McIntosh, October 24: Did you know kangaroos love to have their hands held while fed? Bottle feeding kangaroos at a socially distant session of kangaroo yoga.

Julia Keane, March 27: Early into the pandemic, I found myself laying on the floor a lot. Seeing the world upside down with more blood rushing to my head made me feel present, a feeling I craved when spiraling into overwhelming anxiety. This photograph represents me allowing myself to be fully vulnerable in 2020.

Christine Sloan Stoddard, September 21: This is my friend Brian Parker, an actor and producer I met at the Broadway Comedy Club when we performed together in 2019. The photo is from a series of portraits I took of him right before he moved from Brooklyn back to his native North Carolina. We talked about 2020, Black fatherhood, racial relations in America, his time in New York City, and more.

Mark Lindamood, September 24: For two days in September, the flag-draped casket of Ruth Bader Ginsburg rested on a bier at the Supreme Court to allow mourners to pass by and pay their last respects. They came by the thousands. This multiple exposure photograph captures the movement of America’s somber procession of grief.

Susan Silva, October 22: Distance learning has been an adjustment. My son has grown to enjoy the company of our cat at his learning table and the cat, Molly, enjoys supervising his classes. This photograph captures perfectly the morning mood in our house as school gets rolling online.

Donna Merz, September 6: This photo was taken at the Florida Avenue Grill, through the takeout window. The normal Sunday morning beauty of the counter, filled with customers, is a casualty of Covid. I loved how this cook looked in his environment. I took him a print of this image a few weeks later.

Community in Focus (Week 2)

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The Phillips Collection invites everyone to participate in Community in Focus, a community project to capture a unique photographic snapshot of an unprecedented year. We asked you to show us your inimitable spirit, suffering, joy, and resilience, and here are some images that captures those human emotions that connect us all. Stay tuned for more photos and submit your own!

Vincent Brown, October 29: When city restrictions were relaxed so that businesses could operate outdoors, one hair salon took advantage.

Austin K. Graff, August 13: “J” is for Maryland’s Jug Bay Wetlands. Forced to balance full-time work and homeschooling during the pandemic, my daughter and I explored the D.C. area using the alphabet as our guide.

Grerry Suchy, October 6: This was a warm day in October. The area around Union Station is far less busy than pre-pandemic. The woman was having her lunch after removing her mask when she was approached by the homeless gentleman. She offered him her lunch, which he graciously accepted.

Mark Andre, October 23: With a week of mild temperature, the fog created a surreal and painterly scene at sunrise as clearing skies revealed the Washington Monument in the fog.

Talia Schmidt, August 15: This is a photo of introducing our new baby to a friend who stopped by our porch to check on us. We call it: New baby during COVID: A portrait.

Sianna Boschetti, June 6: Protestors wave an American flag with “BLM” painted over it at a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, D.C. Thousands showed up for racial justice that day. Earlier that week, the National Guard tear gassed protestors at Lafayette Square, about a block away from where I took this picture.

Scott Nidermaier, July 20: After months of lockdown and delayed graduation, finally students could walk to earn the high school degree they’d earned. Many students and families were not present, engulfed with fear of the pandemic.

Community in Focus (Week 1)

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The Phillips Collection invites everyone to participate in Community in Focus, a community project to capture a unique photographic snapshot of an unprecedented year. We asked you to show us your inimitable spirit, suffering, joy, and resilience, and here are some images that captures those human emotions that connect us all. Stay tuned for more photos and submit your own!

Tyrone Hilton, July 8: The Jeb Stuart statue was removed in Richmond along with other confederate statues. After its removal, it became a bigger canvas for people to show their feelings of anger and sadness towards police brutality and social injustice.

Bekah Richards, June 19: I took this photo at the end of a long run through Rock Creek Park on a humid, steamy evening. I have been so grateful this year for Rock Creek Park and other nearby trails!

David Abizaid, June 2: A cellist plays as soldiers arrive outside the White House during a Black Lives Matter protest, the day after Trump’s walk to St. John’s Church.

Pilar Gormley, April 12: Happy Easter. After sending one patient to the ICU, I am about to go into another room to discharge the other one home. The interpreter, the patient and I all shout in Spanish as we discuss his instructions over the loud air scrubber blowing in the background.

Liza Banks Campagna, May 29: Taken at the first family gathering since the pandemic began. My younger sister, Bea, celebrated her eighteenth birthday and high school graduation in our back yard with our extended family. She sits in the chair in the bottom middle of the photo, fielding Happy birthday and congratulatory texts.

Ambrose Vurnis, September 19: This photo was taken the morning after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. People brought flowers and payed their respects.