Housed2020 is a picture platform initiated by Joseph Maida for sharing images that show our individual experiences and responses to the COVID-19 health crisis, which has us housebound around the world. 

Conceived as a visual community to connect us through photographs and videos while we are apart, this living archive serves as a meditation on the present moment and will become a record, which we can reflect upon to understand where we have been, what we have learned, and how we can move forward, together.  

Joseph Maida is an artist, writer and educator, whose work been has exhibited at venues including the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Kunsthalle Wien; C/O Berlin; the Photographers’ Gallery, London; Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; the Nikon Salons, Tokyo and Osaka; the Shanghai Art Warehouse; 403 International Art Center, Wuhan; and The International Center for Photography (ICP), New York, among others. Having studied under Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Catherine Opie and Thomas Struth, Maida’s perspective uniquely navigates the intersections between photographic ideologies and practices of the American Northeast, the American West Coast, and the Düsseldorf School. Maida earned his BA summa cum laude from Columbia University and his MFA from Yale. He has taught at Parsons, SUNY Purchase, and Yale, and is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, where he has chaired the BFA Photography and Video department since 2018.

@josephmaida / www.josephmaida.net