


Podcast: Accept the Weirdness—Quarantine Photography, with Neil Kramer -- I think most photographers have tried to document their experience during the COVID-19 shutdown, but none have done it quite like Neil Kramer.

Man living with mom and ex-wife documents their quarantine in a hilarious photo series -- Man’s mom and ex-wife were only supposed to stay for a few weeks.

NY1: In the Papers

NY photographer humorously captures life under quarantine with mom and ex-wife -- Writer and shutterbug Neil Kramer turns his lens inward, focusing on a short-term living arrangement that only a global pandemic could have prolonged

In March, 2020, my Queens neighborhood became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Through unusual circumstances, I found myself hunkering down in my two-bedroom, one bathroom apartment with my 86-year-old mother from Florida and my ex-wife from Los Angeles.

This week my guest is Neil Kramer. We talk about his very touching self portrait/documentary project in which he included his ex-wife and his mother, all sharing a small apartment in Queens during the lockdown.

In this fascinating discussion, Neil Kramer talks to Rebecca Weston about the ways in which humorous photos help him organize and process his experience; about the truth he's found in staged images; and about being part of, instead of outside, the photographic story. Neil also explores the differences between private and public audiences and the gendered aspects of the street photography he'd been doing and the domestic photography he's explored during the pandemic.

Quarantine in Queens | A Photo Series by Neil Kramer. Tune in as event & street Photographer Neil Kramer how used phototherapy to cope with being quarantined with his mother and ex-wife in his two-bedroom, one-bathroom compact apartment.