New York (CNN Business)In a video shot from her hospital bed where she is recovering from Covid-19, Austin American-Statesman photojournalist Lola Gomez described the predicament that photographers like herself face as they cover the pandemic.
"Even though the reporters are working from home, photographers can't work from home," Gomez said in the video posted to Facebook on April 1. "We, my team, is working out there, to report the community everything that is happening now, risking their lives, literally, so be kind with them when you see them out there."
Newsrooms across the US have closed their offices in the wake of coronavirus outbreak to create the social distancing needed to slow the spread of the deadly illness. But while many journalists can do their jobs remotely — through phone calls, video calls and Slack messages — photographers continue to put themselves in harm's way to capture the pandemic from the front lines.
