The Year Of Not Knowing: In Six Words

During the pandemic, a group of Los Angeles photographers were considering ways to respond to this moment in time as a collaborative effort. We were inspired by an article in the New York Times written by Larry Smith about challenging people to describe their worlds in six words, a form he calls the Six-Word Memoir. As visual artists, we took the challenge even further, creating visual descriptions to accompany our carefully chosen six words. The photographs were created while we were self-quarantining in Los Angeles in 2020.

The result is a collection of responses to one of the most difficult and profound years of our lifetimes and is a historic document of our collected experiences as we navigated this grave new world.

~ Aline Smithson