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We asked writers, artists, photographers to tell us what they learned in quarantine. From learning to play the piano to inventing a new game for their daughters — these are the things our contributors have been doing https://nyti.ms/2TrVSLO

Paolo Pellegrin is a conflict photographer who has been documenting historic events around the world for decades.

Now, isolated with his family in quarantine, he turned the camera on them for the first time https://nyti.ms/3d47JY0

I'm Usually a Conflict Photographer. Now, I'm Documenting My Family.

For the first time in my career I decided not to cover a major event. I'm seeing something more timeless and universal.

https://nyti.ms/3d47JY0

"Quarantine didn’t just take things away; it revealed — with a harsh, unrelenting clarity — what had already been lost," Leslie Jamison writes https://nyti.ms/3cVloAE

When the World Went Away, We Made a New One

I lost many things during the quarantine. But there can be an unexpected abundance inside a state of loss.

https://nyti.ms/3cVloAE

During quarantine, the illustrator @abstractsunday found unexpected solace in an old hobby gone rusty: learning how to play the piano https://nyti.ms/3cTaTOj

The Unexpected Solace in Learning to Play Piano

A cartoonist is humbled by the brain power (and finger strength!) needed to play Chopin and Tchaikovsky.

https://nyti.ms/3cTaTOj

Playing hours of pretend with her 5-year-old showed the playwright Amy Herzog how coronavirus was re-activating old medical traumas in her family https://nyti.ms/2LLiOkU

How a Game With My Daughter Helped Us Cope With Quarantine and the Past

Playing hours of pretend with my 5-year-old showed me how coronavirus was re-activating old medical traumas in our family.

https://nyti.ms/2LLiOkU

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