Assignments: The Protests
Assignments: The Virus
Category: Best of the Week
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Week Twenty-Five
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A child in a car raises a fist in solidarity with protesters blocking an intersection in Salt Lake City (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Signs are taped to City Hall in Salt Lake City (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) 99-year-old Audrey B. Carr visits with her son Harold and daughter-in law Flavia Wood through the front window at Heritage Place Senior Living in Bountiful on Friday, June 19, 2020. Masks, downtown Salt Lake City
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Week Twenty-Four
Assignments: Black Lives Matter
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Josianne Petit speaks at a Black Lives Matter protest at City Hall Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, and Lex Scott at a Black Lives Matter protest at City Hall Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People gather at the site where Bernardo Palacio-Carbajal was killed by police, in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 13, 2020. 
Assignment: GOP gubernatorial debate
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former Utah GOP Chairman Thomas Wright, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, and former House Speaker Greg Hughes, participate in the Utah Gubernatorial Republican Primary Debate in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman participated over a monitor.
State Street
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Week Twenty-Three
Assignments: Black Lives Matter
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kamaal S. Ahmad shakes hands with Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown following a rally in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 6, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Surrounded by family, Lucy Carbajal grieves for her son Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal at a vigil at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 6, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A car drives though a crowd of protesters, the driver flipping them off, in Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 7, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Protesters calling for criminal justice reform gather at City Hall in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 8, 2020. Public defenders from across the country participated in Black Lives Matter protests, including this march hosted by the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association. -
Week Twenty-Two
Assignments: Black Lives Matter
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rev. Monica Dobbins holds a sign to passing traffic as a group of people protest police brutality in front of the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City on Friday, May 29, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A small group of Black Lives Matter activists led by Victoria Crosby kneel with National Guard and Salt Lake Police in front of the Public Safety Building in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. 
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2020 Week Twenty-One
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Picaso sanitizes her face shield while working at a COVID-19 testing event sponsored by Comunidades Unidas at Mid-Valley Health Clinic in Midvale on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The event was also sponsored by the Utah Partners for Health, Mid-Valley Health Clinic and the Utah Department of Health. 
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2020 Week Twenty
Assignments: The Coronavirus
Assignment: Sunny
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sunny Lee works with the South Korean government to bring the families of MIA Korean War veterans to South Korea where they are honored for their family member’s service. Lee was photographed at her Springdale home on Tuesday, May 19, 2020.
Personal Work
Emigration Canyon 
Main Street. Nephi, UT 
I-15 near Beaver, UT 
Mt. Olympus Zion National Park
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2020 Week Seventeen
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Shoppers at four Salt Lake City grocery stores on Friday, April 24, 2020. Those wearing masks appear in color and those without in black and white. 
Assignment: Antelope Island State Park
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2020 Week Fifteen
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lights in the Grand America and Little America hotels display hearts in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Warnings written on the sidewalk trying to discourage the crowds of people walking in the cherry blossoms surrounding the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 11, 2020. 
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2020 Week Fourteen
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An empty plaza at The Conference Center in Salt Lake City just before The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds General Conference on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The area would usually be packed with tens of thousands of conferencegoers. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, no public attendance is permitted. In fact, the conference is coming from a “small auditorium on Temple Square.” 
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2020 Week Twelve
Assignment: Earthquake
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The scene at the Rescue Mission of Salt Lake after an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The statue of Moroni atop the Salt Lake temple, damaged in an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Curt Green works to remove loose brick from the roof of Caffé Molise, damaged in an earthquake in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bricks that fell from the facade of Red Rooster Records in Magna after last week’s earthquake, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A closure notice due to COVID-19 is covered up by a warning notice after earthquake damage to the VFW Post in Magna, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Damage to Colosimo’s Market in Magna from last week’s earthquake, as seen on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.
Assignments: Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A security guard looks out from the closed City Creek Mall in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Men in a parking lot in downtown Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A lone woman walks along 300 West as Salt Lake City continues to shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man looks at his phone in an empty Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 23, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elysian Burial Gardens in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 19, 2020.
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2020 Week Eleven
Assignments: The Coronavirus
Press Conference from the Emergency Operations Center
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Michael Good, CEO of University of Utah Health, at a news conference in the state’s Emergency Operations Center on Thursday, March 12, 2020 addressing the current state of COVID-19 in Utah. Representatives from the Utah System of Higher Education, the Utah Board of Education, Utah Jazz, local health authorities and Utah Department of Health were also present. Restaurant Closure Decree
Masks
Just before the ski resorts closed
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers at Snowbird on Friday, March 13, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers at Snowbird on Friday, March 13, 2020.
Meanwhile on State Street
And Elsewhere
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2020 Week Ten
As I wrote last week photography is in the forefront of everything I’m doing right now. Looking through this week’s photographs it’s the way to go. Ditch the podcasts, stop reading social media, ignore the political soap opera, stop watching mediocre streaming content. Get out there and create!
Assignments: The Coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Negative pressure tents have been set up outside University of Utah Hospital in preparation for COVID-19 cases, in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) UDOH State Epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn answers questions as Utah health officials announce the state’s second case of COVID-19, at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
Assignment: The LDS Church’s $100 Billion in Investments
Each block in the center tower represents $1 billion. I documented the process of building this illustration at this link: https://www.thetrickstergod.com/2020/03/13/illustrating-100-billion-dollars/
Assignment: Protest over LDS Church’s Schools Honor Code Changes regarding LGBT Students
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators at a rally about BYU’s changing position on “romantic behavior” by same-sex couples march around the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Demonstrators at a rally about BYU’s changing position on “romantic behavior” by same-sex couples gather in front of the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2020.
Hurricane, Utah
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2020 Week Nine
New Blog: Rough Draft
I made a big change on March 1st, moving photography to the forefront of what I do on a daily basis. I’m spending much more time with the camera to eye. To keep my mind in a creative space I exchanged podcasts for music. And I started to publish my work on a more real-time basis on a new blog: Rough Draft (@thetrickstergod on Twitter).
The format on the blog is starting to stabilize. I photograph constantly, am buried in editing, and post as I catch my breath. I will be writing there as well. A lot of the photographs from Rough Draft will be in my Instagram story (@trenthead).
So the landscape is this –
Rough Draft – blog – a free-flow of successes and failures as I create them, as well as links to stuff that is cool.
Trent.Photo – archive – my best / important / personal work. Heavily tagged, cross-referenced by subject, location, band, team, etc.
Trenthead.Com – only my best work compiled by week.
Assignment: Mitt Romney
Assignment: Utah’s first cannabis pharmacy opens
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mario Enriquez, a patient, livestreams as Dragonfly Wellness becomes the first of Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies to open for business in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 2, 2020. 
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dragonfly Wellness becomes the first of Utah’s 14 medical cannabis pharmacies to open for business in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 2, 2020.
Assignment: UTA 50th Birthday
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A GM “Old Look” transit bus from the Salt Lake city line on display to mark the 50th birthday of UTA at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Buses of this type were produced between 1940 and 1959. -
2020 Week Eight
Assignment: Mike Lee town hall
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mike Lee answers questions at a town hall in Draper on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020.
Assignment: Family-run nursery
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alex Kuwahara in one of his Sandy greenhouses on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. City officials are threatening to shut down Kuwahara Wholesale, a family-run plant nursery that has been operating in the community for years, saying it is violation of ordinances requiring a business license.
Assignment: Night Skiing
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A skier photographs the fading sunset during a night skiing session at Brighton on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.
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2020 Week Seven
Assignment: Celebrating Suffrage
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Surrounded by female legislators, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs a joint resolution celebrating women’s suffrage in Utah, part of the celebration of suffrage at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. To the right of Herbert is First Lady Jeanette Herbert.
Assignment: Speed Skating
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Yamato Matsui (Japan) competes in Men Team Sprint at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. 
State Street
Assignment: Mayor Pete
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks at The Union Event Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. -
2020 Week Six
State Street
Assignment:
Bald EaglesRed Tailed Hawks
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A pair of red-tailed hawks at the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Two chances to see bald eagles in northern Utah will be available from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 8. Spotting scopes will be in place at the Salt Creek Waterfowl Management Area and the Farmington Bay WMA.
