LaGuardia Community College
Focus
Collection of student reflections on their time during the COVID-19 lockdown in the Spring of 2020 – both photography and written reflections.
History
In Spring of 2020, LaGuardia Community College students switched to remote learning and during this time they took photographs both inside their homes and on the streets of NYC. The first phase of this project has about 50 photographs from four students across the boroughs. Some documentation of food lines and BLM protests. In addition to written student reflections for this photography project, we are collecting essays from students who wrote COVID-related assignments for their classes – all will be archived in the same collection at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. Topics include mental health, fear of deportation, racism and bigotry, one student who ended up relocating to South Korea to be with her family.
Collection
Photographs with written reflections and COVID-related essays.
Form of Collection
All digital – JPGs and PDFs/Word Docs
Emphasis
The students documented different neighborhoods across the city but are all members of the LaGuardia Community College student body. Neighborhoods include: East Harlem, Corona/Woodside/Jackson Heights in Queens, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Williamsburg/Greenpoint.
Time Period
Spring-Summer 2020
Public Access
Online at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives – http://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/
Director
Richard Lieberman, Director of the Archives
Molly Rosner, Supervisor of Project
Contact Person
Molly Rosner
Email: mrosner@lagcc.cuny.edu
Telephone number: n/a