Bridgewater photographer paperwork seniors’ isolation amid COVID-19
BRIDGEWATER — When most nursing houses closed their doors to loved ones associates and other users of the general public all through the COVID-19 pandemic, photographer and social worker Melinda Reyes was able to get a search inside of.
She documented residents’ encounters with isolation and observed the tireless do the job of nursing residence staff. Reyes claimed using shots helped her process what she witnessed, some of which was equivalent in her individual do the job as a social worker with senior customers.
“There was these a heaviness,” she stated. “When you walked into a setting up, the heaviness was in contrast to anything you have ever witnessed.”
These shots became element of an show called “Within the Partitions” and is on display screen by means of the end of the thirty day period at the Flora T. Very little Gallery at the Bridgewater Community Library.
Reyes said she