<b>#Goodnight New York</b>, photographs by Tonia Cowan, will be on view during the month of September at Catapult Creative House.<br/><br/>Cowan is the director of graphics for the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> and has formerly worked as a visual journalist for <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>The Associated Press</i> and <i>The Boston Globe</i>. She specializes in visual communication, working both as a painter and a visual journalist.<br/><br/>Cowan began this series of photos at the beginning of the COVID pandemic when New York City was the epicenter for infections.<br/><br/> The exhibit is free and open to the public and will be on display at Catapult Creative House through September 30. Catapult is open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The best visual stories of the year from The Wall Street Journal In a year like no other, our visual journalists have continued their commitment to excellence, with resilience and camaraderie. They created engaging and informative work from their homes in the U.K., Spain, Hong Kong, Argentina and around the U.S. Take a few minutes to explore some of our favorite projects. Tonia Cowan, Graphics Director There were 30 known cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. on March 1. By the 31st there were 188,000, the S&P 500 had lost $3 trillion and most states were closing nonessential services. The article s data-driven scrolling introduction was designed to re-create that atmosphere: the overwhelming sensation, the rising tide of cases, the frog in the pot. This story was our attempt to memorialize the month a chronological record of how things changed so quickly. To capture the incremental changes, Jessica Kuronen and Vanessa Qian developed sp