Todd Bigelow is a Los Angeles-based photographer as well as an adjunct professor and founder of The Business of Photography Workshop. His work is represented by Contact Press Images.
Her salon is just one of many small businesses in Los Angeles that refused to close after the county's mid-March “Safer at Home“ order directed all “non-essential” business to shut down in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom allowed barbershops and salons in the state to reopen, meaning some of these business owners could start seeing customers legally as soon as this weekend. But L.A. County’s restrictions and safety standards for reopening are still higher than those in much of the state. And for the rest of those Bigelow spoke to, they say that until normality is fully restored, they’ll keep clawing to whatever business they can get.
Martial arts is a multibillion dollar industry composed mostly of small businesses. One Southern California instructor in Muay Thai who trained in Thailand and fought all over the world was put out of business when his academy was one of many gyms and training centers forced to close as a result of L.A.'s Safer at Home order. He says that bills piling up and a commitment to his students led him to start offering his services on driveways and in backyards.
Stupid
The Democratic have caused this. If this ninja virus, is as bad as they say then we are all going to get anyway. The Raugt is 2.7 -5.7 because states mess with their data the CDC has no idea how contagious it is. W/O vaccine 50% +need to catch it before it can be controlled
Didn't some governor, gavinnewsom, label protesting as nonessential. Who new the people had the power all along to determine what is essential.
Nah, this is what lawlessness and entitlement look like. Prohibition, my ass.
All fun and games until someone infects 100+ people.
Open illegally and spreading a virus one customer at a time.
Gosh ... are they spreading the virus? Call the cops. Oops, no can do .... 🙃🙃
That customer should be wearing a face mask.