Relocation

In March 2020, I left New York City and returned to my family in Italy on one of the last international flights to depart during the COVID-19 outbreak. New York was seeing coronavirus cases rise quickly, while in Italy, quarantine was already well underway. My parents’ customary warm embrace was replaced by a medical exam and temporary solitude. I was rushed to my bedroom and didn’t see my family for fifteen days. I took the photo of my mother in one of my first interactions with her after self-quarantining. The other portrait depicts a close Italian friend in New York, before the pandemic.

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