2020-03-31

Originally posted on Facebook 03.31.2020
by Kremena.

Today 17 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Lexington, Kentucky. Today our city’s streets continued to be nearly empty. The sidewalks felt uninhabited, too. “I can hear birds singing so much better now,” a friend we photographed remarked. Then her eyes welled up with tears for the days of pedestrians and traffic that seem so far behind us now. Today one person sang “Sunshine On My Shoulders” on his side porch. It was his daughter’s second day of spring break. Today laughter and sadness mingled all over Lexington, sunshine temporarily giving way to cold rain.

A man stands, hands together wearing a black button up shirt, distressed jeans and sneakers, a small black cap and neat beard next to a young girl in jeans and stipes, a woman in a black head scarf in a green shirt with Arabic character print and a young man with curly hair in jeans and sneakers in front of a brick home with ivy.

Deeya, Layan, Manal, and Malik

03.30.2020 3:48 PM

Manal: “Palestinian and proud!”

A man holds a ukelele upside-down in colorful, knee-length socks crossed legged seated next to a young girl in brightly patterned pajamas next to a woman in a tan collared sweater and short hair on a patterned coushined bench in a screened porch with orange columns and teal trim.

Mick, Libby Lee, and Lucy

03.29.2020 5:11 PM

Mick played two songs for us on his ukulele: “Sunshine On My

Lexington in the Time of COVID-19 is an artwork about people practicing social distancing at a time of a deadly virus. And also offering kindness.

Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova capture photographs at the periphery of American culture, where drag queens, discarded couches, and abandoned motel signs exist.