Walking up the stairs in the Cesar Chavez Student Center to the terrace level, Noemi Perdomo, an ethics studies representative for Associated Students, is greeted with a vibrant mural that, despite its colorful nature, shows a deeper meaning of the journey for students who have been incarcerated and are now at San Francisco State University. .
Lynsey Addario, The Photojournalist Bearing Witness Jezebel 12/30/2020 Stassa Edwards
Stunned patients, exhausted doctors, overworked funeral directors, mourning families, and filled caskets lowered into the ground: This is what the world through Lynsey Addario’s camera looks like in 2020. The Pulitzer-winning photojournalist spent part of the year documenting the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom for
, and the results are arresting. Addario has captured the small visual details that would have otherwise been unseen in a tragedy so devastating that it almost seems unbearably abstract. But in Addario’s photographs, these details accumulate hands rub weary eyes, flags drape on coffins, the physical strain of a pallbearer, the eyes of a patient filled with terror and a full picture of our catastrophe emerges. An estimated 1.77 million people worldwide have died; Addario has captured the depth of that loss with a deserving frankness.
Stunned patients, exhausted doctors, overworked funeral directors, mourning families, and filled caskets lowered into the ground: This is what the world through Lynsey Addario’s camera looks like in 2020. The Pulitzer-winning photojournalist spent part of the year documenting the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom for
, and the results are arresting. Addario has captured the small visual details that would have otherwise been unseen in a tragedy so devastating that it almost seems unbearably abstract. But in Addario’s photographs, these details accumulate hands rub weary eyes, flags drape on coffins, the physical strain of a pallbearer, the eyes of a patient filled with terror and a full picture of our catastrophe emerges. An estimated 1.77 million people worldwide have died; Addario has captured the depth of that loss with a deserving frankness.