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.

Neil Kramer is a street and portrait photographer, as well as a writer who has worked on various projects for Disney and HBO. He currently lives in Queens, New York. He is also a member of Photographers Under Confinement: Engaging Corona Around the World.

Rebecca B. Weston is a photographer and clinical social worker, living in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York - a suburb of New York City. She has had work published in curated, collaborative Street Photography Books and has exhibited both in solo and curated group shows. She is also the founder of the facebook group, Photographers Under Confinement: Engaging Corona Around the World.

The aim of this project is to explore the ways in which specific photographers have used photography and image making to express their feelings about and individual experiences of the pandemic, to connect and be seen in their isolation by others around the world, to honor their shared humanity and to preserve their own mental health.