It's 2020, but We're Living in COVID-19 // Photo Diary Entry no. 2

It's 2020, but We're Living in COVID-19 // Photo Diary Entry no. 2

Piper said, “I’ve definitely been way more creative during this time in ways I haven’t since I was a kid— journaling, painting... I even brought out all my shells that I’ve collected since childhood and admired each one and organized them on my coffee table. This strange time is opening up this creativity in all of us that, I hope, stays after normal life returns. I feel like an appreciation for creativity and art is so, so, so prevalent right now. I never write or journal, I have a hard time with that for some reason, but I started quarantine dairies to just write down my feelings day to day during this knowing I’ll want to reflect back in the future and be able to tell my kids.”

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It's 2020, but We're Living in COVID-19 // Photo Diary Entry no. 1

It's 2020, but We're Living in COVID-19 // Photo Diary Entry no. 1

Inspired by #frontstepsproject, I began finding people who simply wanted documentation (from a distance) of their new normal. And then I started asking questions. What are you doing with this time? How are you feeling? How are you managing? It started as portraits from a distance and now I see there is a little series of something more emerging.

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Mama + Me, A Beach Picnic for Two
Lifestyle Photography, Photojournalism Deanna Rivaldo Lifestyle Photography, Photojournalism Deanna Rivaldo

Mama + Me, A Beach Picnic for Two

To each, incredible mama that invited me over to sweetly package up memories this past month: THANK YOU. As a fly on the wall to your smooches on toes and hearty giggles and outfit changes and milk-drunk naps and sh-sh-shhhh soothings, literally none of it felt like work. Here’s an example from a relaxed Mother’s Day, mama + me session.

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