United Nurses of Alberta
Working nurses, one blue
Portraits for United Nurses of Alberta, 2021: working nurses on one deep blue, each photographed gowned and masked, and again in their own scrubs.
- Client
- United Nurses of Alberta
- Year
- 2021
- Ran as
- “Alberta Needs Nurses” bus shelter posters, and the “Nurses Now + Always” artwork and web banner
- Photographs
- Ryan Parker
01The nurses, 2021
01Where it ran
How it got made
The brief, the room, the frame.
United Nurses of Alberta wanted its members to tell their own stories, and Point Blank Creative brought me in to make the portraits alongside their video. The direction was straight on and “not so heroic.” Strong, but vulnerable. These weren’t actors. They were six working nurses, a year into the pandemic, coming in one at a time over a twelve-hour day.
I didn’t have to direct tired or worried. I asked them how things were, they told me, and it was all there. The smiles came too. That May the portraits went up on billboards for Nurses Week, and friends in southern Alberta started sending me photos of them on bus shelters.
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