
Anne Kornfeld
Covid Yearbook Portrait, 2020
Archival Pigment Print
24 x 30 in
61 x 76.2 cm
61 x 76.2 cm
$ 2,500.00
For twenty-five years I taught media arts to high school students. In this role, one of my jobs was being a yearbook advisor. When it came time for senior portraits,...
For twenty-five years I taught media arts to high school students. In this role, one of my jobs was being a yearbook advisor. When it came time for senior portraits, students would show up in their best outfits, wearing makeup and/or sporting chic hairstyles. For some poses, the photographer would give the girls a rose to hold and have them wear the graduation gown. Fast forward to 2020, my first year of retirement, I kept in touch with several of my former students. I empathized with them; school was cancelled, so were proms, yearbooks and graduation ceremonies. I created this image with an affinity for her students who expressed their disappointment in missing out on watershed events and traditional rites of passage..
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