libby march // photographer

"Two comfortable rocking chairs sit on Nolan and Valencia Scales' porch - but it's been years since anyone used them. "You can't sit on your porch because there's so much noise," Nolan Scales said. The sunken, six-lane Kensington Expressway (Route 33) runs in front of their house, where Humboldt Parkway once connected Delaware and Martin Luther King parks."

I worked closely with reporter Mark Sommer, visiting with residents of the streets that line Route 33 to ask their thoughts about a potential $1 billion project to cap the expressway. I made portraiture and scene setters to illustrate the neighbors' experience of life split by the massive roadway.

Portraits and reportage in Syracuse, N.Y., for The New York Times, covering movie production hub American High

Portraits and reportage in Syracuse, N.Y., for The New York Times, covering movie production hub American High

Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton for the cover of City & State magazine, photographed by Western New York area photojournalist Libby March

‘After Escape From Kabul, an Afghan Family Starts a Long Climb in America,’ in Rochester. Story in The Wall Street Journal with photographs by Buffalo photojournalist Libby March

“Resin, but make it functional fashion”

Portrait of Jill Wittkowski Heaps for TIME Magazine by Buffalo photographer Libby March

Representative Crystal Peoples-Stokes, for the cover of City & State magazine

Lockport sneaker artist Dakota Wiley photographed by Buffalo photographer Libby March for Buffalo Magazine

I photographed community reactions to Daniel Prude’s asphyxiation by Rochester Police officers for The Washington Post.

“Vast swaths of upstate are largely untouched by the pandemic, and some residents are more worried about the economy than about their health.”

A small Buffalo manufacturer has had to trim its staff and spending. But its fourth-generation owner says: “We will take care of everybody.”

Speedy Coronavirus testing in upstate N.Y. for The New York Times