2020 was the year a once-in-a-generation global pandemic clashed with a global call for racial equality.<\/p>\n
In her excellent new book, Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, NYU professor Lauren Walsh attempts to understand the historic year through the vantage point of the photojournalists that were on the frontlines capturing a multitude of unprecedented events. Walsh records the emotional toll that came with covering death, destruction, and endemic racism.<\/p>\n
The historic Black Lives Matter protests were the largest demonstrations in US history and reverberated globally, Walsh says.<\/p>\n
The devastating Covid-19 pandemic, a once-in-a-century disaster, has impacted the entire world. And both situations collided in 2020, forcing photographers into a terrain defined by new ethical, technological, and safety concerns, as well as innovative attacks on press freedom.<\/p>\n
Through the Lens features images that range from lockdowns in Shanghai and Wuhan, to protests in Minnesota and Portland.<\/p>\n
Her work, Walsh adds, aims to uncover the ethical dilemmas and the risks and challenges visual journalists encounter to bring us the news in pictures.<\/p>\n
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