Portraits from a year of emptiness
Photos by Louis Heilbronn, M.F.A. '18
In late March of this year, we asked Louis Heilbronn, M.F.A. '18, to create a series of portraits depicting the emptiness that had taken over our school and campus in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. He visited classrooms, studios, workshops, theaters, and interstitial spaces that had been left vacant for more than a year, capturing in photographs a series of spaces frozen in time.
To us, they connote a sense of unnatural calm, an eerie quietude devoid of the usual bustle of activity enlivening our spaces, and will forever remind us of a time when the campus, for the most part, stood still as time marched on around it.
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