Associated Press
Echoes of one million lost in the spaces they left behind
Put your son in Sherman Peebles’ barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherly warning about staying out of trouble. In portraits of these places left behind, emptiness claims a chair at a nurses station in a busy Alabama hospital, long occupied by a caregiver co-workers recall as “like everybody’s mama.” It fills the Arizona bedroom of an 13-year-old lost to COVID, his action figures lined up just as he left them, on the dresser.
