https://www.ajstetson.com/maskednyc
On March 10, COVID-19 knocked me out. After weeks of labored breathing and a wide range of seemingly unrelated symptoms, I recovered, yearning to create portraits. The experience of photographing housemates, friends, and over 500 hundred New Yorkers, with each subject’s, or parent’s, permission, in a public place and using a telephoto lens to remain socially distanced, often at Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ rallies, has been deeply moving, and led to this project, Masked NYC: