Virtual Memories Show
COVID Check-In: Kyle Cassidy
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Photojournalist Kyle Cassidy checks in from Philadelphia. We talk about his new photo series, Between Us and Catastrophe (recently excerpted at Hidden City), where he’s photographing and interviewing (at a distance) the healthcare workers, essential personnel and volunteers who are keeping the world going during the pandemic. We talk about the awful choices that nurses have to make, the technical challenges of the series, his aggravation at neighbors holding porch parties, the book on Icelandic sweaters that he’d love to get back to, his decades-old flash that’s been waiting for this moment, his fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity, and more. Give it a listen! And go check out Between Us and Catastrophe!
You can listen to all these COVID Check-In episodes at The COVID-19 Sessions. My two full-length podcasts with Kyle were in 2012 and 2017
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About our Guest
Kyle Cassidy is a photographer and filmmaker who has worked closely with nurses the past two years creating curriculum and training materials. His most recent book is This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information, from Hachette. You can follow him on Twitter and see his photography on Smugmug
Credits: The conversation was recorded remotely via Zencastr. I used a Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone
