Linda Alterwitz: Injection Site

Spidery networks of veins, splotches and other marks of inflammation captures the invisible scars-physical and emotional-we carry from the Covid-19 pandemic

After her neighbor complained of pain following her Covid-19 vaccine, photographer Linda Alterwitz (born 1960) used a thermal imaging camera to map the inflammation in her arm. This led to Injection Site, a series of more than 130 different images that forms a unique visual record of the most recent pandemic.