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By mid-April, the pandemic had been raging for a month, and Scott Streble s work as a nonprofit photographer had mostly dried up. His south Minneapolis neighborhood was eerily quiet, people tucked inside their houses, front doors closed.
Streble s partner, Jessica Bessette, thought this was the perfect time for Streble to start a new photo project photographing families in front of their homes.
Streble was dubious. So-called front porch portraits had been done before, and he worried that the idea wasn t fresh. But the more he thought about it the more he decided that doing the project during a pandemic made sense. When did people need a sense of community and connection more than during a time of forced isolation?