Yana Paskova - Photojournalist, Writer, Photo Editor

New Yorkers: After Times

Pandemic New Yorkers (March 2020 - Current Era) 

Photographed for: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Getty Images, The Washington Post, and Leica Camera North America 

  • Walking through Washington Square Park in Manhattan, NY, on December 30, 2021, during a rapid surge in coronavirus cases caused by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
  • A man takes a smoking break in Chinatown in New York, U.S., February 13, 2020, at the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Chinese American denizens have reported an uptick in hate speech and crimes ever since U.S. president Donald Trump's racist characterizations on the pandemic's initial spread from Wuhan, China. REUTERS/Yana Paskova
  • Sonya Williams, MTA cleaning staff, disinfects the 86th St. Q train station on March 4, 2020 in New York City. Six people have been diagnosed with novel coronavirus in the metro New York area, including one community spread infection. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • A food order awaits delivery at Antonio's Trattoria in the Bronx, NY, on April 10, 2020, as restaurants across the city shut down to indoor dining in response to the coronavirus crisis. (Photo by Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)
  • A masked butcher looks out of Biancardi Meats as a line of customers waits to pick up food outside in the Bronx, NY, on April 10, 2020. (Photo by Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)
  • A masked man walks through an empty Williamsburg at night as the coronavirus rages inside its North American epicenter, New York, on April 05, 2020. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • Garden of Eden, Covid Era (through a Brooklyn window, June 2020.)
  • Protective equipment.Photo by: Yana Paskova © 2020
  • In wait: a pandemic threatens to quiet what makes us so casually human, via loss of self, or loss of others. (April 2020, Brooklyn.)
  • The sun sets over a quarantined New York City. I've heard yellow and orange rarely are popular colors. Some say this is because their luminous spectrum drains the eye of energy, while others associate a mustard hue with warning or disease. (March 2020, Brooklyn, NY.)
  • A phlebotomist shows to the camera specimens of people getting tested for coronavirus antibodies at the Refuah Health Center on April 24, 2020 in Spring Valley, NY. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • A man adjusts his hat as he waits in line to get tested for coronavirus antibodies at the Refuah Health Center on April 24, 2020 in Spring Valley, NY. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • A phlebotomist prepares to draw blood from a person getting tested for coronavirus antibodies at the Refuah Health Center on April 24, 2020 in Spring Valley, NY. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • A mural of Marxist feminist painter Frida Kahlo peers over a Black Lives Matter protest, under the Broadway MTA tracks in Brooklyn, NY on June 12, 2020.
  • A street vendor under a face shield puts a mask on a mannequin's head under the elevated stop of the 4 train at in the Bronx, NY, on April 19, 2020. (Photo by Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)
  • The Bx32 bus drives under the elevated stop of the 4 train at E. Burnside Ave. and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx, NY, on April 19, 2020. South Bronx’s NY-15, New York’s chief congressional district and home to the most NYC essential workers, is the poorest in the nation. Its residents suffer from the state’s worst rates of asthma, diabetes, hypertension and obesity, and therefore, a disproportionately high risk of death by a disease like Covid-19. (Photo by Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)
  • People await entry to BJ's Wholesale outside of the Bronx Terminal Market in the Bronx, NY, on April 19, 2020, in a line stretching across several blocks due to social distancing measures inside stores and supply shortages during the pandemic. (Photo by Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)
  • A masked protester stands amidst a gathering of hundreds at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, on June 07, 2020. Peaceful demonstrations, which elicited teargassing, rubber bullets and mass arrests by police, spread throughout the country and the world in response to the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who Minneapolis police killed via extensive neck and back compression during an arrest at the end of May. Photo by: Yana Paskova © 2020
  • Hundreds of people gather to protest police violence at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, on June 04, 2020. Peaceful demonstrations, which elicited teargassing, rubber bullets and mass arrests by police, spread throughout the country and the world in response to the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who Minneapolis police killed via extensive neck and back compression during an arrest at the end of May. Photo by: Yana Paskova © 2020
  • (Diptych, L-R) Gloves tied to dried roses, and a broken liberty torch amongst shattered glass, during heavy protesting against police brutality in New York, June of 2020. Yana Paskova/NPR
  • A young girl under a face shield (who wanted to be photographed, with her mother's permission,) watches hundreds of people gather to protest police violence at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, on June 07, 2020. Peaceful demonstrations, which elicited teargassing, rubber bullets and mass arrests by police, spread throughout the country and the world in response to the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who Minneapolis police killed via extensive neck and back compression during an arrest at the end of May. Photo by: Yana Paskova © 2020
  • Hundreds of people gather to protest police violence at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on June 06, 2020. Peaceful demonstrations, which elicited teargassing, rubber bullets and mass arrests by police, spread throughout the country and the world in response to the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who Minneapolis police killed via extensive neck and back compression during an arrest at the end of May. Photo by: Yana Paskova © 2020
  • In a world that has paused its humans, humans reclaim the asphalt; a skateboarder soars above an emptied avenue in Brooklyn, NY on April 06, 2020.
  • A couple sunbathes on a Bedstuy roof, in Brooklyn, NY on May 03, 2020.
  • Love in the Time of Corona (Brooklyn quarantine, July 14, 2020.)
  • A mural by E. Burnside Ave. and Walton Ave. in the Bronx, NY, on April 19, 2020. (Photo by Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)
  • New Yorkers congregate in Prospect Park during nice weekend weather as social distancing guidelines remain in place to limit the spread of coronavirus on May 2, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)
  • A socially-distant street barbecue on a Brooklyn street, on August 26, 2020.
  • Orthodox Jewish women gather for Sukkoth prayer on August 24, 2020, gatherings often criticized for lack of social distancing and masking pre-Covid-19 vaccines.
  • Masses of people take to the streets to celebrate after Democratic candidate and former vice president Joe Biden is projected to be the next president of the United States, defeating his controversial Republican rival, Donald Trump, on November 07, 2020 at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York.
  • A woman joins masses of people in the streets to celebrate after Democratic candidate and former vice president Joe Biden is projected to be the next president of the United States, defeating his controversial Republican rival, Donald Trump, on November 07, 2020 at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Senator Bernie Sanders prepares to speak during a Get Out The Vote Rally with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on October 28, 2021 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
  • (L-R) Alex Hinds, 21, from Brooklyn, NY, and Travis Romero, 16, from New Jersey, watch traffic move from New Jersey to New York over the George Washington Bridge, as seen from Fort Lee Historic Park in Fort Lee, NJ, on June 02, 2021. Recent audits reveal that New Jersey state troopers subject Black drivers to stops, searches, arrests and use of force at disproportionate rates, despite the Justice Department having ordered an end to this pattern of racial profiling by law enforcement in the late 1980’s.
  • People, reflected in the plastic barrier of a restaurant's outdoor dining area, gather for the 95th Annual Feast of San Gennaro in the neighborhood of Little Italy in Manhattan, NY, on September 24, 2021, for the first time since 2019 after last year's festivities were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  • A man crosses the road alongside traffic moving from New Jersey to New York through the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City, NJ, on June 02, 2021. Recent audits reveal that New Jersey state troopers subject Black drivers to stops, searches, arrests and use of force at disproportionate rates, despite the Justice Department having ordered an end to this pattern of racial profiling by law enforcement in the late 1980’s.
  • A woman holds up a sign as crowds gather in Foley Square in front of the United States Courthouse during the Women's March on October 2, 2021 in New York, NY. Marches were organized across the country to protest a new, restrictive Texas abortion law that bans most abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.
  • Reverend John Corbett puts on a robe before holding Sunday Mass at Stella Maris, a Roman Catholic Chapel in Newark, NJ, on December 19, 2021, during a rapid surge in coronavirus cases caused by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. New Jersey does not mandate mask-wearing within most indoor spaces.
  • Scott Lobaido poses with the card he says he shows when anyone asks his for his coronavirus vaccination card, during an anti-coronavirus-vaccination-mandate protest in front of the Staten Island University Hospital (Northwell Health) on Staten Island, NY on August 16, 2021. Earlier in the day, outgoing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a directive that all healthcare workers in the state must have at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccination done by September 27, 2021.
  • A “Scarlet A” balloon floats in the foreground of crowds gathering in Foley Square in front of the United States Courthouse during the Women's March on October 2, 2021 in New York, NY. Marches were organized across the country to protest a new, restrictive Texas abortion law that bans most abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.
  • A masked woman walks through crowds gathering for the 95th Annual Feast of San Gennaro in the neighborhood of Little Italy in Manhattan, NY, on September 24, 2021, a festival that's gathered for the first time since 2019 after last year's festivities were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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