The Faces of Mothers Who Bore the Burden of the Pandemic For a business article on the price that working moms paid, a photographer couldn’t take portraits in person. But shooting them remotely led to a different connection. The photographer took portraits of her subjects remotely but still aimed for a sense of intimacy.Credit...Bethany Mollenkof for The New York Times By Bethany Mollenkof May 23, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As a freelance photographer, I was contacted by The New York Times in February to create a series of portraits of 15 mothers in Los Angeles who had been forced out of their jobs because of the pandemic.