Transcendients: Memorial to Healthcare Workers
April 2021 - May 2021
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California
WORKS
Following news coverage of the coronavirus, I came across stories of healthcare workers who had died from COVID-19. I wanted to help share their stories, and help commemorate these fallen heroes.
I tried to capture the spiritual movement of these healthcare workers in mist portraits, and then printed them on long Kozo paper scrolls—much like how a loved one who has passed is memorialized and celebrated in Japanese culture.
This project is a collaboration with Kaiser Health News and The Guardian. From April 2020 to April 2021, their journalists have reported on 3,607 US healthcare worker deaths, gathered in an online interactive database called Lost on the Frontline. With their reporters, I was able to reach out to the families of each of the heroes in this gallery.
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
All works in this collection developed and owned by Make Visible.