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Intimate Portraits Capture Loss, Hopes of 2020's Senior Class

Penelope Poulou

   The pandemic has put lives of students on hold, especially high school
   graduates who are unable to celebrate the completion of their secondary
   education with the traditional senior dance -- the prom -- and the
   graduation ceremony.

   To save the day, award winning photographer Matt Mendelsohn volunteered
   to photograph each one of the 500 seniors of Yorktown High school in
   Arlington, Virginia, his neighborhood high school. Each portrait
   encapsulates the graduate's talents, hopes and aspirations.

   Mendelsohn, a 35-year veteran photographer, has chronicled wars, the
   Rodney King beating by Los Angeles police officers, the Academy Awards
   and boxing title fights, among others.

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