After being a staff photographer at the Tufts Daily for four years, I finally wrote an article. It’s about a topic I’m close to, namely physical accessibility on the Medford/Somerville campus, but I wanted to tell the story of other physically disabled Tufts students, not just my own. You can read the article, which I did in collaboration with the investigative team editor Liam Knox, here. I’ve included some of the photos I took for it below, but the article features many more, as well as some amazing work by members of the Daily’s video and graphics teams.
This accessible ramp to Eaton hall, which is labeled “for employees only,” is the only way to get into the building without using stairs. (Ray Bernoff / The Tufts Daily)
This door to West Lab leads to the accessible route from the Science and Engineering Center to the third floor of Anderson and Robinson.
The Memorial Steps, an iconic Tufts landmark, and impassible barrier for students with mobility disabilities, leads from the Academic Quad to College Ave.
Stairs in Olin Language Center lead from the basement to the third floor. Fortunately, the building has an elevator as well.
One of Tufts’ rare chair lifts can be seen in Barnum Hall.
A student sits in a staircase in the Science and Engineering Center.
I covered the annual Independence Day fireworks at Trum Field for the Somerville Journal last night. The evening was chaotic, and I’m not exactly proud of the United States right now, but the fireworks sure did look pretty. And it was good to finally do some press photography after a long stretch of mostly food…
Here are some photos from week 2 of PNDP. The assignment was to shoot dawn and write six sentences about it. Of course, it rained all week, so everyone’s dawn pictures were pretty dingy. At six in the morning, the sky is just barely beginning to lighten to a pearly gray, but work has already…
As of this writing, my boyfriend Casey is off in Los Angeles for Emerson College’s LA program. I tried to take extra pictures of him before he left, since he’ll be there for three months. We’ve been friends for ten years and dating for five, and this will be the longest we’ll have gone without…
My newest post on Icons of Arlington is about Menotomy Rocks Park, a park I spent a lot of time in as a kid. I learned a lot about the park’s history, both ancient geologic and recent community history, while I was researching for this one. Content warning for non-graphic discussion of suicide in the…
