This book presents selections from my 6 Feet Apart series—photographs that capture the visual language of pandemic-era public space. The project has been the focus of several exhibitions. Its release also marks the fifth anniversary of San Francisco’s initial COVID lockdown on March 16, 2020. Together, the book and the exhibitions explore the lingering traces of a transformed world, now fading into memory yet still shaping our present.

CONTRIBUTORS
Renny Pritikin was chief curator of The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. He wrote a curatorial response titled “The Aesthetics of Peril and Panic”.

Christopher Lee is a medical epidemiologist focused on global epidemic and pandemic preparedness, detection, and response. He wrote a short essay—a personal reflection of his COVID experience—titled “Lines, Loss, and the Gravity of Time“