A letter from the US Department of Education notified all “American educational institutions” that if “an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates the law.” (Eric Thomas illustration/Kansas Reflector)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was teaching a photojournalism class. Twenty undergraduates at the University of Kansas enrolled, each of them hoping to learn about making candid images.
The challenge was obvious: no one wanted to be the subject of photography in the middle of a contagious public health crisis. Being photographed meant allowing a stranger with a camera to step into your personal space — for a “school project.”…