Photography during pandemic

Photography
During a
Pandemic
Think Outside The Box

Presentation by Bradley Wilson, Ph.D.
©2020

DON’T FORGETTHE BASICS
95%
TECHNICAL QUALITY
• Focus
• Lighting
• Quantity (overexposure,
underexposure)
• Quality (harsh/soft; warm/
cold)
• Direction (front, back, light)
• Depth of field
• Appropriate shutter speed
COMPOSITION
• Rule of Thirds (Divide the
frame into thirds both
horizontally and vertically and
put the subject at the
intersection of any two lines;
get the subject out of the
center of the frame)
• Repetition of Shapes
• Framing
• Leading Lines
• Perspective
MEANING
Capture the decisive
moment where the image
represents the essence of the
event itself

GETACCESS
DON'T BREAK THE LAW KNOW THE LAW
KNOW STATE RULES
KNOW SCHOOL POLICY

Some faces from Katrina by Matt Stamey, 2005

IT’S 2020
Len Moneaux poles his boat along a ﬂooded street as he checks
on neighbors in Delcambre, Louisiana, on Saturday morning
Oct. 10, 2020, after Hurricane Delta hit the Louisiana Coast
overnight. Photo by Mickey Welsh/LaFayette Daily Advertiser

The 2020 Election
Share the numbers as part of the historical record,
the numbers in your school, community, state,
nation and world.
STATISTICS
Elections are often about issues as much as people.
Discuss the issues, especially those at the local
level.
THE POLITICS
Cover the individuals who were running for office
and those who helped them run for office.
THE PEOPLE
Cover how the elections impacted your school and
community directly.
THE IMPACT

The Environment
THE IMPACT
It’s something that impacts everyone in many
different ways.
THE PEOPLE
Cover who have been involved in various clubs and
community groups.
BY THE NUMBERS
Do some research to find out about pollution in
your area, or maybe how the weather has changed
over time, etc.

Evolving Society
THE IMPACT
Cover how the Black Lives Matter movement along
with things like the LGBTQ movement, Indigenous
Peoples’ Day and Women’s March have had on
your school/community.
THE PEOPLE
Cover who have been involved in the movements
and why.
THE DEMOGRAPHICS
Do some surveys and/or use official data to paint
picture of your school’s demographics.

The COVID-19 Pandemic
Share the numbers as part of the historical record,
the numbers in your school, community, state,
nation and world.
STATISTICS
Document, for the historical record, what this virus
was, how we treated it and what we’ve learned
from it.
THE SCIENCE
Cover the individuals who were impacted by the
virus in one way or another.Tell their stories.
THE PEOPLE
Cover how the pandemic impacted your school
and community directly.
THE IMPACT

MCCOOK, NEBRASKATORNADO 2019
Ever since I started storm chasing, I’ve had this tornado in my head that I wanted to
see: a long, white rope tornado with a dusty base. Savannah and I really liked the
setup in southwest Nebraska on May 17, 2019. The tornado was short-lived but
extremely photogenic. Photo by Jason Weingart

Notre Dame de Sion
School (Kansas City,
Missouri),Alison Long,
CJE, adviser

Little Rock
Central High
School,
Arkansas

RESOURCES
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS
Inside Climate News is an independent, nonproﬁt, nonpartisan
news organization that covers clean energy, carbon energy,
nuclear energy and environmental science — plus the territory
in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped.
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS
SEJ is the only North American membership association of
professional journalists dedicated to more and better coverage
of environment-related issues.
INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM
The Institute for Environmental Journalism started in 2018 as a
natural outgrowth of InsideClimate News’ efforts to grow a
national network of climate change reporters. ICN’s Institute for
Environmental Journalism runs a two-week program at College
of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, each summer.
Students at the Institute for Environmental Journalism watch the sunset from the College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine) pier. Photo by
Naomi Henry

Share what Noelle
Griffin, a student at
Shawnee Mission
East (Prairie Village,
Kansas) did when
demonstrations
came to Kansas City
in JEA’s magazine —
Communication:
Journalism
Education Today,
fall 2020

Bridgeland
High School,
Cypress,Texas

Holy Trinity
Episcopal
Academy,
Melbourne
Florida

Harrisonburg
High School,
Virginia; Mary
Strickler adviser

Glacier Peak High School,
Snohomish,Washington

Shawnee
Heights High
School,Tecumseh,
Kansas

“Your camera is your pass
to go places other people
won’t, or can’t, go. Go.”
Have you thought about having
a Selfie Picture Day?
How will you cover “Your
Muted”?
What is the environmental
impact of COVID-19?
What does COVID-19 stand for
anyway?
Who are the people making the
decisions at your school? Profile
them.
Along the way, don’t forget to
have fun. Build a team.

THE PANDEMIC
“We only have had masks for the last six to eight weeks, in a massive
volume … we are now seeing the effect on the environment,” said
Gary Stokes, founder of the environmental group Oceans Asia.

killed between 30% and 50%
of the Europe’s population;
population of England
dropped from 5 million to
2.5 million
1918-1919 2019
Pandemic Timeline
Influenza PandemicSecond Plague Pandemic
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COVID-19
1918 article
from the
Border Cities
Star [Windsor,
Ontario]
Killed up to 100 million
people worldwide, 675,000
in U.S.
Killed 1.1 million, 217,904
in U.S.; 39 million cases
worldwide

after the first, mysterious case of the COVID-19 virus was
found in Wuhan, China, few gave a second thought to
how the virus could’ve impact countries, and that it
later would cause a pandemic. According to the World
Health Organization [WHO], many researchers worked
on finding a treatment or any sort of way of preventing
the outbreak. Being constantly around patients who
contracted the virus itself, Dr.Li
Wenliang (Chinese whistle-blower
doctor) caught it and eventually
died on Feb. 7, 2020 after
attempting to warm the
public of the virus.
The virus traveled to
Europe through tourists
from China, leading to the
concern of traveling in small
confined places like airplanes.
More deaths continued to
be documented, most from
elderly or people with underlying
respiratory issues. Throughout Feb.,
the virus was growing, but not at an
alarming rate, at least in the U.S. It
wasn’t until March and 90,000
cases worldwide that the
many realized how rapidly it
was spreading and began
discussing possible ways of
prevention.
After the virus spread to
North America and almost
all of Europe, the WHO
declared the COVID-19 virus
outbreak as a global pandemic
on Mar. 11, 2020. Everywhere, social
distancing was promoted by staying inside and limiting
the amount of human contact. In mid-March, schools,
restaurants, stores and other nonessential locations
began to shut down, despite economical concerns. The
WHO endorsed keeping social distance so the curve
could eventually be flattened, and life could resume as
normal, hopefully by Jul. or Aug., 2020.
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COVID-19 GLOBAL
the global scare, all the terminology,
keeping your distance, the big picture
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SCARESCAREglobal
the
COVID 19, also known as the novel coronavirus, appears out of nowhere and grows
unexpectedly and fast, impacting the entire world
A pneumonia like virus
was discovered in Wuhan,
China.
The COVID-19 virus was
characterized as a global
pandemic by the WHO.
First case of the COVID-
19 virus was diagnosed in
the United States
dec. 31, 2019 mar. 11, 2020jan. 20, 2020
all of the
TERMINOLOGY
pandemic /pan-DEM-ik/, adj.
Definitions of words and phrases that have been widely used in the
news or in person during the COVID-19 virus outbreak
(Of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over
a large area.
social distancing /sō-SH-əl dis-təns/, v.
Physical distancing or social distancing is a set of infection control actions intended to stop or slow
down the spread of a contagious disease.
quarantine /kwôrən-tēn/, n.
A strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
the
PICTUREbig
The biggest events that happened
before and during the COVID-19
pandemic according to the WHO
flatten the curve /flatn THə kərv/, v.
To stagger and reduce the number of cases over a longer period of time, like data on a exponential
graph.
DISTANCE
keeping your
What social distancing looks like in
two different countries by shutting
down businesses and putting the
country on lockdown
Jan. 13, 2020: First ever
diagnosed case of the COVID-
19 virus in Wuhan, China from
unknown causes.
Dec. 31, 2020: First lab-
confirmed case of the COVID-19
virus in another country besides
China diagnosed in Thailand
italy
According to The New York Times, Italy raised
precautions after their death toll increased
by more than double in one day on Mar. 4.
They quickly began shutting down public
establishments to maintain social distancing.
the united kingdom
After weeks of not taking proper precautions,
Boris Johnson finally announced a nation wide
lock down for 3 weeks on Mar. 23. The public
complained that he didn’t take precautions
soon enough.
6DAYS
for the virus to
double in Italy.
40DAYS
for the virus to
double in China.
3DAYS
for the virus to
double in the
United States.
Jan. 22, 2020: The United
Kingdom first two patients tested
positive from the COVID-19 virus
Mar. 20 - 24: Spring breakers
ignore all social distancing
recommendations in Florida,
United States.
Feb. 29, 2020: The first death
in the United States from the
COVID-19 virus of a man in his
50s
As of Mar. 25, 2020 according to
the CDC.
Copy by: Brianna Houle
According to the CDC
Photo courtesy by: The US ArmyPhoto courtesy by: Tufts Hemisphere Photo courtesy by: The Federalist
Photo courtesy by: The
Department of Defense Photo courtesy by: Flickr
Photo courtesy by: Wiki Commons
Graphics courtesy of: Needpix.com
Vieo, Castle
View High
School (Castle
Rock,
Colorado);
Jessica
Hunziker, MJE,
adviser

COVID19PANDEMICTIMELINE ELEVATE 11
ELEVATESPRING
10 ELEVATE SPRING
DOZENS OF PEOPLE IN
WUHAN, CHINA
are admitted to the hospital
over pneumonia like
symptoms. Many of which
were connected to Wuhan’s
Huanan Seafood market.
BETWEENDECEMBER
12AND29,2019
JANUARY11,2020
CHINA REPORTS ITS
FIRST DEATH due to the virus.
A 61-year-old man who purchased
goods from the Huanan Seafood
Market, died of heart failure on
January 9.
OUTBREAK
THE NBA SUSPENDS ALL
BASKETBALL GAMES after Jazz
center Rudy Gobert tests positive
for the virus. Oscar-winning actor
Tom Hanks announces that he and
his wife have tested positive for
COVID-19.
PRESIDENT TRUMP
ANNOUNCES RESTRICTIONS
on travel from Europe into
the US applies to foreign
nationals and not American
citizens for thirty days.
JANUARY13,2020
THE WHO ANNOUNCES
the first case of novel
Coronavirus not located in
China. Thailand announces
one of its citizens who
traveled to Wuhan
contracted the virus.
JANUARY21,2020
WASHINGTON
STATE
ANNOUNCES
ITS FIRST CASE
OF THE NOVEL
CORONAVIRUS,
THE FIRST CASE
IN THE U.S. THE
CASE BELONGED
TO A MAN IN
HIS THIRTIES
WHO RECENTLY
TRAVELED TO
WUHAN.
MARCH11,2020
THE WHO ANNOUNCES
the Coronavirus as a
pandemic, the first caused
by a Coronavirus. Turkey,
the Ivory Coast, Honduras,
Bolivia, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo,
Panama, and Mongolia all
confirm their first cases.
FEBRUARY8,2020
THE FIRST US
CITIZEN DIES OF
CORONAVIRUS IN
WUHAN.
MARCH13,2020
COLORADO
ANNOUNCES ITS
FIRST DEATH
due to COVID-19, a
woman in her 80s
with underlying health
conditions in El Paso
County.
MARCH24,2020
JAPANESE OFFICIALS
and the International
Olympic Committee declare
the Olympics postponed
until 2021. The only other
times the Games did not
go on as planned were in
1916, 1940, and 1944
which were all canceled
because of World Wars.
MARCH25,2020
GOVERNOR POLIS
announces a statewide
stay at home order,
while cases in Colorado
top 1,000.
MARCH26,2020
The US becomes the country with the
most reported cases with at least
82,321 confirmed cases and over
1000 deaths. Montana announces a
stay at home order. The Indianapolis
500 is postponed until August 23.
APRIL8,2020
WUHAN REOPENS AFTER A
76-DAY LOCKDOWN.
APRIL18,2020
MASS PROTESTS
LOCALLY AND
NATIONWIDE DEMAND
THE END OF STAY AT
HOME ORDERS.
MAY32020
TOTAL POSITIVE
TESTS IN THE
WORLD ALMOST 7
MILLION,
total deaths almost
300,000.
The US has the most
confirmed cases with
almost 1.2 million
positive tests.
MARCH5,2020
COLORADO
CONFIRMS its
first two cases of
COVID-19.
MARCH11,2020
This photo of the scene
perfectly captured the
ongoing tension in the US
amid the Coronavirus
pandemic: Demonstrators
are fighting against
stay-at-home orders and
demanding states be
reopened, while health
care workers are risking
their lives fighting against
the deadly pandemic
that has taken more than
77,000 lives in
the country.
Statistics from World Health
Organization as of May 8, 2020
photo by Alyson McClaran, Freelance
Photographer
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to more than
62,000 with the number of infections now over 1 million.
1-2 cases
Coronavirus cases in U.S.
3-9 cases 10-25 cases 25-100 cases
100-1,000 1,000-5,000 5,000+
CA
2,047
OR
103
OR
103
WA
814
NY 24,069NY 24,069
VT
50
VT
50
CT 2,257
DC 231
PR 56
DE 152
RI 279
MA 3,562
ME 55
NH 72
PA 2,541
NJ 7,228
MD 1,192
IL
2,355
IL
2,355
MO
352
MO
352
AK
61
AK
61
IN
1,175
IN
1,175
OH
975
OH
975
MI
3,789
MI
3,789
WI
316
WI
316
KY 240
TN 119
FL
1.314
AL
279
GA
1,140
VA
581
VA
581
WV
46
WV
46
SC 244
NC 408
TX
802
TX
802
LA
1,905
LA
1,905
MS
261
MS
261
KS
134
OK
230
SD
21
ND
19
NE
70
MN
371
IA
170
(DEATHS)
CO
777
CO
777
NV
243
NV
243
AZ
330
AZ
330
UT
46
UT
46
NM
123
NM
123
AK
9
AK
9 HI
16
HI
16
ID
63
ID
63
MT
16
MT
16
WY
7
WY
7
As of noon, ET, May 1 Source: worldometers.info, Johns Hopkins CSSE
Graphic: Staff, TNS
FEBRUARY11,2020
THE WHO OFFICIALLY names
the virus COVID-19 (stands for
Coronavirus disease 2019).
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, has
announced that, beginning
Monday, elective surgeries
can be performed and retail
businesses with curbside
delivery can reopen in the state.
(Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty
Images/TNS)
A woman wearing a facemask walks
along a street near to Wuhan Bridge
in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei
province on April 13, 2020. (Photo
by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty
Images/TNS)
Jabari Parker #33 of the Sacramento Kings
leaves the court after their game against the
New Orleans Pelicans was postponed due to
the corona virus at Golden 1 Center on March
11, 2020 in Sacramento, Calif. (Ezra Shaw/
Getty Images/TNS)
President Donald Trump, right,
sits next to Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, during a coronavirus
roundtable briefing on March
3, 2020, in Bethesda, Md. (Yuri
Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)
APRIL19,2020
MASS PROTESTS IN DOWNTOWN
DENVER OVER LOCKDOWN
ORDERS. COLORADO PASSES
10,000 CASES.
C VID19
PANDEMIC
TIMELINEBY WILL MUNRO ‘20
Serena Nguyen, Will
Munro, Elevate
Magazine, Regis Jesuit
High School (Aurora,
Colorado); Adam Dawkins,
adviser

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tuesday
PARADISE
PURELL
"I’m unhappy because
I miss my friends. It
is nice to take a break
from all the rush of
school though but
the situation isn't the
best." George Bruen10
"Instead of volunteering, I ended up
having to do self-quarantine, because
of some concerns with one of my family
members possibly having had direct
contact with someone that has COVID-19.
At first I was kind of upset that it was an
overreaction and I was worried because
some of my family members work for
SXSW all year and it’s their main source of
income. Now I see that it was necessary
and that I personally know people that
would be severely affected by it."
Emma Graham10
FROM SXSW CANCELING TO
EMPTY GROCERY SHELVES,
THE HITS KEPT COMING
SCHOOL
CANCELED
UNTIL APRIL 6
MARCH 7 MARCH 10
DESPITE THE CANCELATION, 41
TEAM MEMBERS CHOSE TO GO
ON THEIR OWN
GOI decided to go to LA
because it is the only trip
I get as a Silver Star and
I didn't want to give
the opportunity up.
I'm not really worried
about getting sick,
the opportunity
outweighed the risk."
Ellie Geeslin11
VS
"I feel as this
pandemic
goes on it is
creating more
and more panic
throughout
young people.
Canceling the
STAAR was a
huge factor
because this pandemic is very
stressful and canceling the testing
helped to relieve some of that
stress." Emma Snowden9
UNPRECEDENTED COVID-19 CRISIS LEADS TO STATEWIDE
SHELTER-IN-PLACE MANDATE, CLOSED SCHOOLS & CANCELATIONS
Spread by Mariah Barsotti & Grace Conlan
"I realized we
probably wouldn’t
be going back to
school and my
senior year was
most likely ending
that day. So I was
kind of upset that
I didn’t get to say
goodbye to my
teachers or
my peers."
Ethan Ramirez12
"We were all very disappointed.
Obviously everyone lost a lot
of money, and especially as
a senior going to college
next year, that amount of
money was invaluable. A lot
of us also invested a lot
of extra time learning
and rehearsing pieces
we were going to
perform in Ireland."
Hannah Cherukuri12
66%of students' spring break
plans were changed
149 students polled, 34% did not
experience any change of plans
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MiaBrelsford10
LaineSmith11
GraceBurden11
CANCELED
"I put a lot of time, money and
hard work into raising my steer
so I was devastated when the
San Antonio and Austin
rodeos were canceled. That
was my last chance to
show my steer and I'm a
senior so I'll never get to
show again."
Kaitlyn Cinque12
BEGINNING with the first reported case on
Dec. 31 in China, COVID-19, or a new strain of the
Coronavirus, rapidly spread throughout the world,
with over 1.2 million cases globally and more than
54,000 deaths as of April 3. The World Health
Organization declared the virus a pandemic
on March 11. COVID-19 resulted in multiple
mandated quarantines internationally and travel
restrictions globally.
The Austin Independent School District (AISD)
canceled school at 2 a.m on March 13, the day
before spring break, after two confirmed cases of
Covid-19 were reported in the Austin area.
AISD subsequently canceled school for
students for the two weeks following spring
break, stating that classes would resume virtually
starting April 6. AISD ensured online learning
by providing students that did not already have
Chromebooks or iPads the resources to support
online learning with those services. Bowie teachers
used Blend, Zoom, and other online services to
carry out instruction.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott mandated for Texas
schools to be closed until May 4, but on April 3
AISD announced school buildings would remain
closed indefinitely and students would continue
virtual learning.
According to President Donald Trump, the virus
may be in full swing until late summer, but some
public health experts warn it could continue
through the fall or beyond, until a suitable vaccine
or treatment is developed. Photo by Grace Conlan
saturday
MARCH 12
thursday
MARCH 13
friday
MARCH 16
monday
fine arts trip to Ireland
"I very much enjoy traveling and
hearing that the Ireland trip was
canceled was pretty upsetting,
it seemed like it would be a fun
place to visit. That being said,
I can see how it could have
been a bad situation if we
had gone because the
Coronavirus is very
dangerous."
Trey Tinsley12
ORCHESTRA
CHOIR
"My ensemble and I put a
lot of work into preparing
for our performance in the
Christ church. We practiced
almost every morning for
a while, and not being able
to perform in the church
was upsetting. But the
trip was canceled to
keep us safe, so it’s
understandable."
Luke Halloway11
BAND
silver stars trip to LA
CANCELED
STAY"I decided to stay instead
of going to LA because
the Coronavirus is pretty
dangerous and we didn't
really have the authority
of the directors either
because now it’s not
an Austin ISD trip so
it's just safer to stay."
Keira Folkers10
pals and colorguard events
CANCELED
"Everyone in the program
is crushed. We've built up
such great connections
with all the kids that we see,
and we will miss them if we
don't get the chance to go
back. We also feel bad for
the kids because we
know how excited
they are every time
we come so it's just
a bad feeling on
both ends."
Blake Guerra11
"We were ranked tenth in the world
and we could have gotten top five
in the entire world, in my opinion,
at WGI World Championships,
but that’s not an opportunity
we're able to pursue anymore.
World Championships being
canceled is really sad
because I’m a senior and
it would have been my
last time performing
with Bowie at Dayton."
Audrey Vera12
PALS
COLORGUARD
"Myself, as well as a large majority of investors,
have seen sickening losses over the past two
months. In order to minimize further losses,
I have withdrawn the majority of my shares
in companies, and will continue to hold onto
cash until the situation with the Coronavirus
has been 'controlled.' Until I feel that the
market has regained a bullish market, I have
no intentions of investing." Cole Harrison11
THE DOW: THE LARGEST ONE
DAY DROP SINCE 1987
BLACK
THURSDAY
school for the day
CANCELED
FFA events
CANCELED
STAAR testing
CANCELED
"Things got really crazy after school was
closed the Friday before spring break.
When I went to work there were lines to
the back of the store of people trying to
stock up. It’s been consistently
bad throughout the break as
people are lining up early to get
toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
The craziest thing that I saw
was when I went to work at 7:15
in the morning, there was a line
of 100+ people in front of the
door and we weren't opening
until 8." Thanio Bright11
HEB EMPLOYEE
SXSWVOLUNTEER
foreign exchange program
"The exchange program didn’t want host families
to be responsible for us getting Coronavirus, so
I had to go back to Germany. My flight has been
canceled three times due to everything so I'm
one of the last in the program to fly back. I've
flown to Austin, Houston and New York, and am
about to fly to Germany. I’m not scared about
getting sick, but when I get back to Germany
I’m definitely going to self-quarantine. I don't
want to pass anything along. I hate I had to leave
my host family and Bowie early. I wanted to be
able to go to prom and have my full American
experience but I can't." Eslem Erdoga11
APRIL 2
EmmaTaylor11
stayedbusyduringtheshelter-in-placemandate
bypaintingdesignsonherwallsthatherfriendssuggested.
Lone Star,James Bowie
High School (Austin,
Texas); Lindsey Shirack,
adviser

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DESIGN BY CAREN CHUA COPY BY KATHERINE CHEN AND ASHLEY PENG
COVID-19
March 13th. The day the school shut down.
Some worried, some celebrated. It marks
the start of a journey, an experience, an
adventure. Maybe this virus grounded us,
but we will continue our fight wherever we
are because who said life in quarantine
can’t be extraordinary.
WHERE'S THE BEST PLACE TO BE? IN BED.
JANUARY 7
Chinese officials in
Wuhan confirm that a
new contagious strain of
pneumonia is identified,
initially called the 2019-nCoV.
At this time, only 41 cases
are diagnosed.
JANUARY 30
The WHO declares this
disease as a “public health
emergency of international
concern.” While some
students begin to wear
face masks to school out
of precaution, there are no
cases in Temple City yet.
MARCH 13
School closes and moves
online until April 6 for the
safety of students and
campus staff. Spring
athletics are postponed to
a later date. The musical is
canceled. The school closure
date is later moved to May 5.
MARCH 20
California Governor
Gavin Newsom’s “Safer at
Home” order takes effect.
People can only leave their
houses for essentials. Nearly
all U.S. states declare a state
of emergency.
MARCH 23
APRIL 1
Temple City confirms its
first case, joining a number
of its neighbors in the San
Gabriel Valley. At the time,
officials confirm that there
are more than 375,000
cases worldwide.
Following the governor’s
statement, Superintendent
Fricker announces that the
school district remains closed
for the rest of the school
year. The next day, officials
confirm one million
COVID-19 cases worldwide.
WHO CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION? UNMUTE.
Feeling Bored? Waking up at noon? Missing school?
The new viral way of learning is just what you need
to keep yourself busy. ZOOM in and see how these
online classrooms bring us together despite
social distancing.
BY KATHERINE CHEN
GOES
ZOOM
VIRAL
SHREYA SRIRAM (9)
“Schooling at home is a
bit distracting, but it is nice
because I can do things at
my own pace. It is easy to
get the information I need
and turn in my answers
online, but it is a little hard to
ask questions to my teachers
to figure out how to do
something. My teachers all
send really nice emails
telling us to stay healthy,
not procrastinate and get
our work done.”
ALGEBRA 2
LIYE WANG (10)
“I eat more to make my body
stronger and more resistant to
coronavirus when I’m isolated
at home. My ELD teacher
encourages my English every
time. My math teacher works
hard to teach me math, which
makes me motivated to learn.”
ELD 1
VICTORIA ISAAC (12)
“Learning online has been a huge
adjustment. It is very odd to learn from
my kitchen table or bed compared to
being in a classroom. It is so refreshing
to be able to interact with classmates
through this strange time. Mr. Slaymaker
was very inspiring and uplifting. During
our Zoom meeting, he motivated us by
telling a story about not letting the
negative overcompensate.”
LINK CREW
WHERE DO WE STAND? ON THE SAME GROUND.
STAY HOME?
NO PROBLEM.
In a time when fears run rampant about the
coronavirus, another virus is beginning to show
itself: discrimination and racism toward Asians.
BY ASHLEY PENG
VIRUS
EXTRA
BIGGER
THAN
COVID-19
TIME
WILLIAM LIU (9)
“My mom and I always get some
looks in public. I feel like I’m a threat
to them just because I’m Asian and
they’re not. You see all these senators
calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese
virus’ and it feels like I’m being
unfairly labeled and targeted
because of my race.” BRANDEN VIEN (9)
“During a rally, I was kicked because
they thought I might have the
coronavirus. The racist person
decided to call out everyone. I felt
really upset and discriminated for
who I am. It really sucks how racism
spreads faster than the virus.”
Empty school, empty classes, empty
seats. But what isn’t absent is the care
we have for each other. Hear out
MR. LOHMAN’s message and he’ll
show you that TCHS is more than just
a school. We make a community.
“TCHS is our home, and it is hard to be away from
home and family for so long. My biggest surprise is
the number of students who are in turn reaching
out to our staff to check in on them.”PRINCIPAL
A MESSAGE FROM
THE
WERE YOU SURPRISED
THAT THE SCHOOL
SHUT DOWN?
NO
YES
587
270
“ALL WE CAN DO IS BE FLEXIBLE,
PATIENT AND DO OUR BEST TO
COLLABORATE in continuing
our education even without
formal instruction.”
PHOEBE CHAN (11)
TOTAL SURVEYED:
857 STUDENTS
“PEOPLE ARE BLOWING THIS WAY
OUT OF PROPORTION, which is
ruining the life of many people who
are losing their jobs and can't do
anything to support their family. Even
if they could, people are buying all
the food and other things we need.”
MATTHEW DORADO (12)
PLAYING BASKETBALL
AVRIL GUTIERREZ (9)
JAY XU (12)
BOXING
SPENDING TIME
WITH PETS
LIFE IN THE TIME OF
“It was wise for the district to cancel school, but
I feel that ONLINE TUTORING ISN'T AKIN TO
TEACHING within the classroom. I suppose if
school could still be ran, performing basic
virus-preventing actions can be good enough.”
ANSON WONG (9)
VIDEOCHATTING WITH FRIENDS
MAKING MASKS FOR OTHERS
PLAYING
THE UKULELE
WORKING OUT
CHELSEA LING (10) AMELIA NGUYEN (11)
EMILY LA (10) ETHAN LIEN (11)
“Our administrators and staff are also reaching out
to our students just to make sure everyone is doing
well and feels supported in this very strange time.”
“As things continue to change and unfold, my
biggest hope is that our staff and students learn
the value of flexibility, that teaching and learning
can take place anywhere in multiple forms.”
“I think it is BEST TO KEEP THIS SHUT
DOWN LONGER because it will stop
sleep deprivation among students,
motivate their learning and give
an opportunity to spend time with
family.”
EMILIIA PANOVA (10)
Temple City
High School
(California)

The McHenry Messenger
McHenry High School — McHenry, Illinois
Essential
A story about students who, under
pandemic guidelines, are considered
essential workers is timely, well executed
and shows storytelling intelligence
answering the questions: what’s the
audience want to know and how can we
provide that information?
https://themchenrymessenger.com/
essential/

Highlights, Beverly Hills
High School, California

Fabiola Belibi, Megan
Frontz, Sabrina
Vizurraga, Elevate
Magazine, Regis Jesuit
High School,Aurora,
Colorado

Tigerlily Theo
Hopson, The East Sider,
East Side Community High
School, New York, New York

Tribal Tribune
Wando High School — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Flight attendant’s world turned
upside down
Story about an alumna at this high
school provides insight that few
professional outlets have tackled, let
alone student publications. Reveals great
situational awareness/ability to respond
quickly to a tip that this airline
professional had ties to the community
and was willing to talk share her
perspective.

Pioneer, Kirkwood
High School (Missouri);
Mitch Eden, MJE,
adviser

Before the coronavirus, hair appointments were a biweekly occurrence for them.Two
high schoolers share how they are loving and caring for their hair at home.
Alana Fields and Jessica Carney-Perks, On the Record, duPont Manual High School (Louisville, Kentucky); Liz Palmer, adviser | ! https://
ontherecordmag.com/3867/opinion/our-hair-at-home/#modal-photo

The Pylon
Salina Central High School — Salina, Kansas
Six Feet Apart But Closer at Heart
How are students staying connected
despite isolation and quarantines?

The Tide
Richard Montgomery High School — Rockville, Maryland
The Tide Sports
Twitter is a perfect medium for this type
of audience-engagement content.Well
reasoned, well executed and great
marriage of platform and content.

The Budget Online, Lawrence High School (Kansas); Barbara Tholen, MJE, adviser…

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Like many brides, Grace
Gibson spent a year laying
out the details of her July
wedding in Belize. But then
the new coronavirus ar-
rived, putting the Houston
resident’s best-laid plans on
ice.
“Wejustaren’tsurewhen
they’re going to be able to
travel again, be it to Belize
or to Houston,” she said of
her and her fiancé’s fami-
lies. “So we just have every-
thing on hold right now.”
When the novel corona-
virus made landfall in
March and civic leaders de-
ployedbansonlargegather-
ings, wedding plans — and
the businesses catering to
them — ground to a halt.
May weddings have been
lost, but with the slow re-
opening of business this
month ahead of the June
stretch of the wedding sea-
son, venues that host the
events have been allowed to
open at 25 percent capacity.
The shutdowns and
crowd suppression mea-
sures have dealt a major
blowtoanindustrythatsur-
vives on head counts. And
the hit came at a time when
venues,caterersandflorists
typically do the bread-and-
butter sales that sustain
Wedding industry jilted as pandemic shrivels sales
SLOW SEASON: Venues waiting for fall
as summer heat, virus hurt key season
By Amanda Drane
STAFF WRITER
Brett Coomer /
Staff
photographer
Brad
Schreiber,
president of
Ashton
Gardens,
said he
expects a
40 percent to
50 percent
decrease in
sales for the
foreseeable
future.
Weddings continues on A10
Kara McIntyre remembers
the day she likely contracted
COVID-19 — she wasn’t wear-
ing a face mask.
She was at Target and be-
gan to feel dizzy. Later she
checked her temperature and
had a fever. So she got tested
for the novel coronavirus,
and a few days later her re-
sults came back positive.
The 39-year-old radio DJ
did not wear a face mask be-
fore she was infected in
March, something she said
she feels guilty about now.
“I know I came in contact
with a person who tested pos-
itive for it,” McIntyre said. “I
wasn’t going out much, but I
put gas in my car, went to the
grocery store. Knowing I
went through that and may
have gotten other people
sick, that’s terrifying.”
As the state reopens res-
taurants, shopping malls,
gyms and salons, whether or
not to wear a mask has be-
come a hot-button issue. To
some, it’s a way to signal one
has their neighbor’s health
and well-being in mind. To
others, it’s an inconvenience
or an attack on American
freedoms.
Government officials don’t
agree on the issue either. In
late April, Harris County
Judge Lina Hidalgo issued a
No masking the divide
on face coverings
HEALTH: Confusing guidelines, personal beliefs drive Houstonians’ decisions
By Julie Garcia
STAFF WRITER
Brett Coomer / Staff photographer
Camara White wears a mask while
picking up an HISD computer.
Valencia Lewis wears a mask at a
student pickup for computers.
Melissa Phillip / Staff photographer
Mayor Sylvester Turner wears a
mask at his news conferences.
Amy Ward makes her face
covering a fashion accessory.
Marie D. De Jesús / Staff photographer
Julia Inés Ventura, 11, wears a mask
to keep her grandmother safe.
Gabriela Baeza, 50, a UH professor,
uses a mask to protect her mother.
Jon Shapley / Staff photographer
Roy Acosta has used his mask
since his daughter gifted it to him.
Brent Taylor, 32, said he wears his
mask when he goes out in public.
Emily Deatherage says she’s worn
her mask since March 10.
Bernardo Castro, 20, wears his
Vanessa Torres, 42, who lost a
friend to COVID-19, covers up.
Kara McIntyre, 39, wears a mask
even after a negative COVID-19 test.
Masks continues on A10
“I wasn’t going out much, but I put gas in
my car, went to the grocery store. Knowing I
went through that and may have gotten
other people sick, that’s terrifying.”
Kara McIntyre, 39, who tested positive in March
President Donald Trump on Monday
threatened to yank the Republican Nation-
al Convention from Charlotte, N.C., where
it’s scheduled to be held in August, accus-
ing the state’s Democratic governor of be-
ing in a “shutdown mood” that could pre-
vent a fully attended event.
Separately, in an interview on “Fox &
Friends,” Vice President Mike Pence listed
Texas, Georgia and Florida — three states
with Republican governors — as possible re-
placement hosts.
Pence said that without guarantees from
North Carolina, Republicans might need to
move the convention to a state such as Tex-
as that’s further along in the reopening pro-
cess.
The New York Times reported last week
Texas in mix
to host GOP
convention
NEW SITE?: Trump threatens
to pull 2020 event from N.C.
By Maggie Haberman
NEW YORK TIMES
GOP continues on A17
SPORTS
As facilities open, new economic
proposal on deck for MLB.
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students’ lockers as year ends.
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WASHINGTON — Business might be start-
ing to come back to life in the Houston sub-
urb of Stafford, but it’s not coming nearly
fast enough for the city’s finances.
Sales tax revenue has collapsed during
the coronavirus pandemic, leaving the city
with a budget shortfall of at least 25 percent.
Without a cash infusion, the city will have
little choice but to lay off some of its150 em-
ployees within the month, something it
hasn’t done in its 60-year history, Mayor
Leonard Scarcella said.
“We’ve never asked for a penny of hand-
out,” he said. “But we’re asking (the federal
government) provide us with funding to at
leastgetthroughthisperiodoftime.Wesim-
ply do not have the revenues to continue to
operate our city.”
Such calls for help are meeting increasing
resistance among Republicans, carried in
part by a passionate brand of Texas conser-
Debt rises
above talk
of stimulus
RESISTANCE: GOP pushing
back on aid as deficit surges
By James Osborne
STAFF WRITER
Debt continues on A17
CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
More inside
» Virus scales down Memorial Day ceremony.
Page A3
» Texas nurses aid migrants in pandemic.
Page A13
» Bankruptcy tsunami is building in Texas.
Page B1
For the latest updates, go to
HoustonChronicle.com/coronavirus
taurants, shopping malls,
gyms and salons, whether or
HEALTH: Confusing guidelines, personal beliefs drive Houstonians’ decisions
By Julie Garcia
STAFF WRITER
Camara White wears a mask while
picking up an HISD computer.
Valencia Lewis wears a mask at a
student pickup for computers.
Mayor Sylvester Turner wears a
mask at his news conferences.
Amy Ward makes her face
covering a fashion accessory.
Julia Inés Ventura, 11, wears a mask
to keep her grandmother safe.
Gabriela Baeza, 50, a UH professor,
uses a mask to protect her mother.
Roy Acosta has used his mask
since his daughter gifted it to him.
Brent Taylor, 32, said he wears his
Emily Deatherage says she’s worn
her mask since March 10.
Bernardo Castro, 20, wears his
Vanessa Torres, 42, who lost a
friend to COVID-19, covers up.
Kara McIntyre, 39, wears a mask
even after a negative COVID-19 test.
“I wasn’t going out much, but I put gas in
my car, went to the grocery store. Knowing I
President Donald Trump on
threatened to yank the Republica
al Convention from Charlotte, N.
it’s scheduled to be held in Augu
ing the state’s Democratic govern
ing in a “shutdown mood” that c
Texas in m
to host GO
convention
NEW SITE?: Trump thre
to pull 2020 event from
By Maggie Haberman
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Business migh
ing to come back to life in the Hou
urb of Stafford, but it’s not comi
fast enough for the city’s finances
Sales tax revenue has collapse
the coronavirus pandemic, leavin
with a budget shortfall of at least 25
Without a cash infusion, the city
little choice but to lay off some of i
ployees within the month, som
hasn’t done in its 60-year histor
Leonard Scarcella said.
“We’ve never asked for a penny
out,” he said. “But we’re asking (th
government) provide us with fun
leastgetthroughthisperiodoftim
ply do not have the revenues to co
operate our city.”
Such calls for help are meeting i
resistance among Republicans, c
part by a passionate brand of Texa
RESISTANCE: GOP push
back on aid as deficit s
By James Osborne
STAFF WRITER
Debt continu
More inside
» Virus scales down Memorial Day
Page A3
» Texas nurses aid migrants in pa
Page A13
» Bankruptcy tsunami is building i
Page B1
For the latest updates, go to
HoustonChronicle.com/coron

Inglemoore High
School, Kenmore,
Washington

The Spectator, Liberty High School (Missouri); Jamie Gumina, adviser

HOW COVID-19 CHANGED OUR PHOTOGRAPHY
The pandemic has accelerated a change for National Geographic, too.
As Todd James, a senior photo editor here for over 20 years, notes: “For
most of our first century of publication we would dispatch photographers
from Washington, D.C., to the far-flung corners of the Earth to tell surprising
stories.”
But this was impossible during COVID.
Instead, we intensified a move already underway in recent years, turning to
photographers around the world.They would tell the story of how this
pandemic was upending life closer to home. “It demonstrates the power of
National Geographic in our second century of publication to tell richer, more
nuanced stories,” James says.

Following social distancing guidelines, Moises Saman photographed
masked Syrian refugee women in the Jordanian desert space themselves apart
and in lines ahead of UNICEF donations—hygiene kits and other necessities.
Photographer Wayne Lawrence works on spending time within
communities, gaining trust.This portrait is of Elaine Fields, who had been
married to Eddie Fields for 45 years when Eddie died from COVID-19
complications in April in Detroit.African Americans have been
disproportionately hit by COVID-19, and a recent poll says 4 of 10 Black adults
say they know someone who has died of the virus, nearly double the rate for
white people.
HOW COVID-19 CHANGED OUR PHOTOGRAPHY
Nairobi-based photographer Nichole Sobecki shows how a group of
determined young dancers in the city develop a workaround when their studio
is closed for quarantine. Eugene Ochieng, 12, and his colleagues turn an
alley into a ballet ﬂoor, and their “instruction” comes from a dance coach on a
borrowed cell phone, turned horizontal and propped up on stilts.
In this public cemetery in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Muhammad
Fadli photographed land has been cleared solely for COVID-19 victims.
Crosses mark the Christian plots; Muslim graves are grouped together
beneath pillar-like markers.
In Belgium, Cedric Gerbehaye took pictures as a nursing home patient
recoils as he is tested for the coronavirus in Belgium. Reluctantly, a nurse in
PPE restrains the man, who doesn’t know why the test is required.

Self portrait by
Samari Goffney

Share what Shanon
Oden at Ben Barber
Innovation
Academy
(Mansfield,Texas)
did with her
photography
classes during a
pandemic in JEA’s
magazine —
Communication:
Journalism
Education Today,
fall 2020

Photo by Jayson
Ballenger,
Richmond High
School (Indiana)
Photo by
Brooklyn Harris,
Richmond High
School (Indiana)

Lindsey Plotkin, The
Knight, McCallum
High School,Austin,
Texas

The Wildcat Tribune,
Dougherty Valley High
School, San Ramon,
California

Hi’s Eye,Westﬁeld
High School, New
Jersey

Share what Karl
Grubaugh, now
retired from Granite
Bay High School
(California) did with
his photography
students during a
pandemic in JEA’s
magazine —
Communication:
Journalism
Education Today,
fall 2020

Find out where your
students are living life.
They are still living life.
Cover how, where and why
they’re living life in these
extraordinary times.
Find out where your
Find out where your
Find out where your
Work
Church
At a friend’s
In their bedroom
Playing street hockey
Watching a movie
Playing a video game
At the dog pound
Delivering meals for the elderly
Pick up football game
Riding bikes
Playing Ultimate in the park
Community theater
Shopping
Voting
Picking up trash

Wayland Student
Press Network,
Wayland High School,
Massachusetts

Katherine Adams,
Nick Foerstel,
Madi
Robertson, Spirit,
Lindbergh High
School, Saint Louis,
Missouri

SELFIE PICTURE DAY
Move up close
Avoid backlighting
Follow the rule of thirds

New terms
Flatten the curve

Zoom

Unmute

Pandemic/ Epidemic

Gigafire

Social distance

Quarantine/Isolation

Coronapocalypse

Coronageddon

Rona

Cornteen

Doomscrolling

Covidiot

Coronavirus

Zoom-bomb

Huge/Yuge

Fake news
NEW TERMS

YOUR ASSIGNMENT
You’re Muted
Coronavirus Burnout / Pandemic Fatigue
Playtime
<Word of the Day>
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day

“As a visual journalist, you
have an excuse to ask
anyone, any question
anytime without appearing
stupid. Ask.”
Talk to alumni.
Talk to elected school board
members.
Talk to county health officials.
Talk to local first responders.
(Are any of them students?)
Consider diversity of sources by
race, classification, gender,
socio-economic status.

The best coverage
is local.
You can't compete with ABC News,
USAToday or even the Dallas Morning
News when it comes to overall
coverage. However, you can cover
your school and school community
better than anyone else can.And if
you don't cover your school, who will?

Don’t forget visual
reporting basics.
Know how to use your camera.
Understand light.
Gather caption information. Use
multiple sources. Use people, not
press releases or websites, as sources.
Press releases and websites are the
start of the research for the story, not
the end.

Think of innovative
angles on this story.
From the freshmen point of view.
How Asian students have felt
discrimination. How to stay healthy.
How to cut hair. Making your own
mask. How last year's seniors
adjusted to college. How teachers
adjusted to teaching online with no
training.

Don't be an expert on
something you're not an
expert in – such as
COVID-19.
Use authoritative sources to tell the
stories you want to tell. Some of the
best stories I saw were on local front-
line personnel: grocery store workers,
EMS professionals, ﬁreﬁghters,
nurses, etc.Those are your sources.

This is the time to learn
new ways to present the
story online.
A headline, 1,000 words, a photo and
a caption.That's cool. But, especially
online, think about audio and video
to go with the words and photos.
Think about photo galleries.Think
about maps.Think about interactive
infographics.Think about completely
new ways to present things. Have fun.
Use social media. Instagram.Twitter.

You’re documenting
history. If you don’t
record it, it didn’t
happen.
We don’t know if JPEGs or Instagram
or websites are going to be around in
100 years or 400. But the printed
book, it’ll be around.And the only
record of how your school and
community dealt with the pandemic,
with our evolving society, with the
environment may be your yearbook.

“(The yearbook) is the one
tangible thing from high
school that you can keep
with you, and look back at
when you’re older.”
Caroline Chengary, editor
2015 Prospect yearbook
“With a high school
yearbook, all you need
to look at it
are your two human eyes,
and that will stay the same
100 years from now.”
Kelvin Miller, corporate vice president,
Lifetouch

FOLLOWTHE SCIENCE
In the time it took me to create this presentation
4,223
people died with COVID-19.

Presentation by Bradley Wilson, Ph.D.
©2020
@bradleywilson09
bradleywilson08@gmail.com
All photos and publications samples
are used for the purpose of critique only
and remain copyrighted
by the original copyright owners.
Dedicated to Sherri Taylor
who inspired so many to be
better photographers

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