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Renowned Photographer Gives Baltimore School For The Arts Grads Senior Prom Portraits

"To be able to take the pictures as if we did go to prom, it kind of makes up for it." one senior said.

Joseph Giordano, a photojournalist who also teaches at the Baltimore School for the Arts, used the school’s building off Cathedral Street in Baltimore as a backdrop for prom portraits.
Joseph Giordano, a photojournalist who also teaches at the Baltimore School for the Arts, used the school’s building off Cathedral Street in Baltimore as a backdrop for prom portraits. (WJZ)

BALTIMORE, MD — May is supposed to be filled with senior portraits and festivities to mark students’ graduation from high school. Instead, the class of 2020 is dealing with a new reality of canceled proms and no commencement ceremonies. Those circumstances that motivated one man to start a project aimed at bringing back a sense of normalcy for graduating seniors.

This week, he arranged for a project to photograph students in the prom outfits they would otherwise not get to wear after dances were canceled during the pandemic. “A lot of them already bought prom outfits before the lockdown,” he said. “I think the seniors needed something to really send them on their way.”

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