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Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Jilda, Nine Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Sheyenne, Three Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Chip, 5 Hours Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Graham, Two Days Post Injection from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Isabella, One Day Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Daryl, Two Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Ahmad, One Day Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Markie, 4 Hours Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Cameron, One Day Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Krista, 4 Hours Post Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Marvin, Three Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Candace, Two Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible (2021- )

Alice, Nine Days Post Injection, from the series Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible (2021- )

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Evander, Fourteen Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Destiny, Nineteen Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Joanne, 1 Hour Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Charles, Eleven Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Chet, Twenty-Nine Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Phyllis, Three Days Post Injection from the series Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible (2021- )

David, 11 Hours Post Injection from the series Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible (2021- )

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Joe, Seventeen Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

James, Six Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Jackson, Three Days Post Injection from the series Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible (2021- )

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Rabbi, Thirteen Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Jaymi, Eleven Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Briney, Three Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Tom, 4 Hours Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Monika, Six Days Post Injection from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Jorge, Seven Hours Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Ray, 3 Hours Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Naomi, Ten Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Linda Alterwitz, Injection Site

Olga, Four Days Post-Injection, from the series Injection Site (2021-2023)

Injection Site exhibition at Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, 2023

Injection Site exhibition at Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, 2023

Injection Site exhibition at Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, 2023

Injection Site exhibition at Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, 2023

Injection Site addresses the politically charged global medical crisis of COVID-19. The project involved the use of a high-resolution thermal camera to photograph the arms of participants after vaccination. This has resulted in images over 130 participants, each image documenting and creating a visual trace of each person’s reaction to the vaccine. Rather than providing a simple scientific record, the ethereal images serve as evocative statements about individuality and our collective humanity. This project was intended to avoid being a polemic statement, but rather to cause pause for thought, to ignite conversation, and promote a mutual consideration for the actions and feeling of others, during a period when the health and wellbeing for all of us was such a contentious and divisive issue.

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