The Memphis Quarantine Project started on March 13, 2020, when I, along with many others, officially started distancing from one another. For the next three months I photographed over 800 dwellings and thousands of people…
Memphis Quarantine is a hardbound and offset printed book containing at least one image from each shoot along with paragraphs throughout the pages written by myself and a few of the participants.
Jamie Harmon is a Memphis-based photographer with decades of experience in documenting both found objects and human subjects through film and digital media.
A visual anthropologist, Harmon’s photographs have been featured in the New York Times, CBS News, Bitter Southerner and Memphis Magazine. His latest project “Memphis Quarantine” offers an intimate, early record of life during the 2020 global pandemic through showcasing home-bound notable local figures and everyday Memphians. Through portraiture, the images document Memphis residents’ shared isolation anxieties and bonds renewed by survival, hope and solidarity. His other work includes an ongoing portable studio called “Amurica,” a renovated midcentury Airstream trailer lit with bright, whimsical props that help visitors come alive with color in the shutter. Grounded in an exploration of place from community to individual to object, Harmon’s work breathes in a sincere interest in capturing human emotion and character as story.