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FOCUSED: A lot of my mom's work consists of her working from home, and that means meetings. While some are on the phone and some are on Zoom, they still require intense focus. As I watch her in this meeting, I can see how she is really paying attention to whatever is going on, and I know that once she's done, the light will go off, and we can hopefully hang out.

Love, labor and the little moments

It was Labor Day yesterday, and the federal holiday devoted to honoring the contribution of laborers to our national culture got us thinking of the role of work in our daily lives. It's a theme that...

GAME NIGHT: Being stuck at home has definitely made our family push each other's buttons more than usual, but we also have been able to make room for quality family time. Playing games always brings out the goofy side of the family, a side I love to see. Photo by Camille Wilson.

Celebrating our WRKxFMLY time together

The current batch of MacJournalism students began the WRKxFMLY project, a national initiative coordinated by Working Assumptions. The project's purpose: to explore how we all balance work and family in...

Hands down, the best photo essay we've published

Hands down, the best photo essay we’ve published

For the fourth consecutive year, McCallum photojournalists are participating in the WRKxFMLY project, which encourages student participants to capture images and write captions that explore the intersection...

EXPLORING AROUND: Me, my sister, an my dog have become a trio since quarantine started. We have been exploring all around the neighborhood, including the drainage tunnels. Photo by Ella Rosenblatt.

Pandemic brings people closer to their pets

McCallum photojournalists created 113 award-winning images in the 2020 Working Assumption WRKXFMLY Project. Many of them touched on how people in our community are living day to day during a pandemic,...

FINDING A PLACE TO WORK: My dad's an architect, and since the stay-at-home order, he hasn't been able to go into his office. Because our house is small, he built himself a desk in his room, so he could have his own space to work. He's always very resourceful, so he was able to build a desk out of an old art table and some pieces of wood he had lying around. Photo by Kate Boyle.

Balancing work and family in COVID-19 times

In this week's #TuesdayTop10, we are pleased continue our series of COVID-19-themed photo essays from the photojournalism students' WRKxFMLY project images. This week's collective photo essay explores...

TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE WE GO: At the beginning of the quarantine, my mom ordered masks online for me, herself, my dad and my grandma. We wear these masks anytime we are going outside to do anything. This picture was taken outside of my grandma's apartment before we delivered her some groceries. Photo by Jolie Gabriel.

As in the comic books, these heroes wear masks

The face mask has become the icon of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's central importance in the debate of the statewide response to the pandemic became crystal clear on Monday as state and local leaders discussed...

PLAY FIGHTING: My grandpa and my brother are a lot a like, so they get along really well. Sometimes though, they like to start play fighting for no reason. Photo by Lily Brode.

Stay-home order creates chances to bond

The photojournalism classes had just started a project called WRKxFMLY (or work and family) just before spring break and the COVID-19 pandemic that came with it. It's the fourth year that McCallum photojournalism...

My mom is working in front of the TV at night. Even though she works a nine to five job and does overtime, she still has to work very late at home sometimes as well.

Six photojournalists win national excellence awards

August 17, 2018

[huge_it_portfolio id="34"]   The curators of the wrk x fmly project, a national project involving nearly 1,000 student photographers who submitted more than 2,000 images, have named six McCallum...

This project depicts my father at his place of work and shows the connection that he maintains with the rest of the family through phone and also through the photos and paintings of family members that line the walls of the office. Each of the photos depicting my father with pictures in the background include members of the family. The one of him at the window shows me and my brother, the one of him at his desk shows my mother in the background, and the one of him on the couch shows an older relative in the painting. I feel the strongest of these pictures is the one of him on the couch with the chairs in the foreground. This one has the strongest composition and makes the best use of the space in his office to create a compelling image, it also features the painting of the woman who is a family member hanging right above his head. Photo by Jordan Langmore. Selected for Work+Family archive.

Getting ‘Work’ Done and Then Some

March 13, 2018

As the 2017-2018 photojournalism class starts its work on the Work+Family Project, we take a look back at last year's award-winning work by the 2016-2017 photojournalism classes. On this Tuesday of Spring...

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