Jamie Harmon (from left) photographs Ernie Hutton, 5, and her parents, Kelly and Grant, through a window Monday, March 30, 2020, in Memphis. Harmon has been making "quarantine portraits" as a way to document how people are living during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Photographer Jamie Harmon stands in front of his work, titled Memphis Quarantine in an exhibition Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, at Crosstown Concourse. The photographs depict Memphians in their homes during quarantine from March to May 2020.

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Stage actor Phil Darius Wallace poses with his family.

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, photographer Jamie Harmon has been taking portraits (from a proper distance) of fellow Memphis residents whose lives, like all of ours, have been affected by stay-at-home orders and social distancing. His series, titled "Quarantine Memphis," doesn't quite get inside people's homes (though we do glimpse décor, and the occasional dinosaur), but depicts them in stasis – frozen at a window sill or door stoop, their lives trapped in an uncertain moment in time.