JOE PATRONITE
American in the time of COVID-19

The submitted images are from a long-term photographic essay on the United States of America, entitled "My Americana". This project was started in 2015, and continues inn 2021.

Currently, the USA has deep political divides, protests over police violence, a corrupt leader and yes, the COVID-19 pandemic. Mis-information, radical views and a segment of the society which refuses to concede the 2020 election outcome.

This grouping starts with PPE, socially distanced events, radical right wing group's rally, then to super spreader events such as in Sturgis, South Dakota, where an estimated 30,000 cases of COVID were confirmed from the mass event participants who refused masking. The election and January 6, 2021 event at the Nation's Capitol is followed by another super-spreader event, spring break at the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, finishes this compilation.

America in a place not seen for a century.

Author
Joseph Patronite has spent his life behind the camera, having his first pictures published in newspapers while in his teens followed by a dozen years of daily photojournalism. Sports, editorial and advertising imagery have been commissioned and produced since the 1980’s.

He is a three-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in Photography.

Over the past two decades, long-term photographic still essays have included the struggles, decline and death of his father due to Alzheimer’s Disease, a one-tented family circus, operated since the 1850s. Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead is an on-going project created in 2008.

The most ambitious project, “My Americana”, started in 2015 is a contemporary collection of imagery on the United States of America. Thematically this project deals with current issues, patriotism, secular and non-secular celebrations among other topics.

Website
www.patronite.com

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