'Everyone has a story': How will world remember pandemic?

SARA BURNETT and REGINA GARCIA CANO

Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) - Artist Obi Uwakwe was driving through Chicago's empty streets, camera on his lap to document life during COVID-19, when he saw something that made him stop: a casket being carried out of a church while a few mourners stood by, their faces covered.

The 43-year-old raised his camera and took a photograph. Later, it would become one of the images Uwakwe used to create paintings inspired by the pandemic.

"To see maybe six people there, everyone wearing a mask," he said, "it brought everything together."

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