COVID-19
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SAMANTHA KAUT
HENRY HOAGLAND
ANNABELLE BOWMAN
Matt Mendelsohn’s photographs document hopes, heartbreaks of Virginia high school seniors during pandemic By Jen Miller
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BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
MATT MENDELSOHN ’85 didn’t know what to do when COVID-19 shut down much of the United States in March. The photographer, who is based in Arlington, Va., saw his full slate of portrait and event work “evaporate.” “We do a lot of big events here in Washington, D.C., and everything was just canceled,” he says. Mendelsohn did what a lot of people did that first month of the pandemic: hunkered down, got into puzzles and watched The Office for the whoknows-what-number time.
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