AL RENDON (San Antonio, TX)
Patient Portraits – Faces Of Resiliency
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA 2021 Online Gallery

For nearly fifty years, photographer Al Rendon has been documenting his hometown, San Antonio, photographing big-name rock bands, Conjunto and Tejano musicians, local artists, street food purveyors, charreada riders, and ordinary citizens. Rendon still remembers fondly how, as a teenager, he sweet-talked his way backstage at San Antonio rock concerts to get photographs of big stars like Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. He would rush home to develop and print the photographs, and then find his way into after-parties to sell the printed images to the stars and their entourages. “I had so much fun, but because of all the close-up loud music I was exposed to back then, now I can’t hear anymore” Al jokes. But he says that the experience taught him lessons about the business side of photography. It also taught him how to capture moments and people on the fly.

In July of 2020 I started a special portrait project for San Antonio-based WellMed Medical Management; traveling to several cities in Texas in which WellMed provided palliative care during the Covid-19 Pandemic. I photographed patients and healthcare workers in San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, Austin, Edinburg and McAllen. Patients and caregivers were interviewed about their personal experiences related to health, health care, and recovery from Covid-19. The photographs presented here are a sample selection from the project. The complete set of photographs and interviews will be published as an ebook later in 2021. –Al Rendon

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