Drowning
Daniella Pedi
East Rockaway High School
10 x 13.5 in.
photography
$100
This piece represents the feeling of “drowning” that I and so many others have experienced in 2020. The flowing material in the picture dragging down to the bottom represents the weight of school, work, and covid precautions weighing us down. Like the figure in the photo, 2020 has made so many of us feel like screaming out, but our words are drowned. We want to reach out to our family and our friends, but we simply can’t quite reach the surface and get back to the real world. This year has made us all feel trapped, as if drowning with no way out.
Snowswept
Jonathan Pellow
20 x 50 in.
Lamda print on Fiji Crystal DP II PAPER
$400
Fresh snow racing across windswept ice on a mountain lake in late December evokes the surreal feeling of looking back on a year of isolation, uncertainty, and a sense of being swept over; somehow still, yet swirling with the driving force of nature.
BLM POP-UP Memorial, Hoboken #1
Jean-Paul Picard
39 x 10 x 1.5 in.
photograph printed on shaped dibond
$1500
This is from my series of photographs of the block long Black Lives Matter pop-up memorial made of plain paper laminated photos of victims of violent racism. This was located along the Hudson River walkway in Hoboken, New Jersey between 11th and 12th Streets, in the Fall of 2020. I was capture by and want to photograph the b&w photos with the color and environment of the surroundings.
Since 2013 Sweeps is my continuing body of work where during the exposure, the camera is moving, just like a brush which can create multi shaped photographs. BLM POP-UP Memorial, Hoboken #1 is a photograph digital print on dibond and hangs about 2 inches of the wall which acts as the negative space of this photograph.
Red Climax
Ana Ramirez
Long Beach High School
13.89 x 13.89 in.
digital photo
$55
This year I took so many walks to think, listen to music, or just forget about everything that is going on in the world. Sometimes I went with friends, my parents or by myself. Even then, the flowers around me were always there, including this beauty.
Leaves
Hannah Ramirez
Long Beach High School
13.5 x 10 in.
digital photo
$50
I chose this submission because I felt that the leaves brought me into a fantasy. This photo reminds me of the stories like Alice and Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood. You don’t know what’s behind the leaves but you can imagine that there is a wonderful place waiting to be discovered.
I Can’t Breathe
Allyson Rice
9.34 x 16.82 in.
photography
$150
This was at a Black Lives Matter protest on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall. The protests had just started, and despite the danger of Covid, I felt like it was important to take part in this important moment in time in our country.
Covid Self Portrait
Allyson Rice
15.4 x 9.2 in.
photography
$100
It was “Portrait Week” in my photography class. Because we were in a shelter-in-place moment in L.A., and I live alone, I was the only subject available to me for portraits. So this was a comment on the strange times we’re living through right now.
Inside
Lorraine Rilling
18.51 x 13.89 in.
DIGITAL photo
$75
I chose this photo because it symbolizes calm and safety, as well as the introspection that happened during quarantine. The sun’s golden glow reminds me to take pause in gratitude for the warmth and beauty in life.
Wynwood
Jeffrey Rothburd
16 x 24 in.
photograph
$200
Taken just before the Covid19 pandemic exploded into the world, this image of life imitating art was perfect
Warmth
Steven Russo
5184 x 3456 px
digital photo
NFS
This photo gives me warmth and reminds me of the happiness of my cat during quarantine. The sunlight on the thick white fur of the cat is a really cool effect I can almost feel just from this picture.
