Melissa, Jeff, Paige, and Oden

“Right now, we are 4 people living in 2 houses, acting like 1 family,” Jeff explained. Melissa also has a child, a 13-year-old daughter, who is in a long-term residential facility in Louisville. Right now, Melissa can’t see her.

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.