DPI Alum Jessica Ingram photographs A Year of Avoiding Eviction in Tennessee for The New Yorker

Monday, Aug 2, 2021

Photographs by Jessica Ingram for The New Yorker

Cara Grimes and her fiancé, Justin Pitts, moved with their eight-year-old daughter from Delaware, Ohio, to Bedford County, Tennessee, in the spring of 2019. After Covid-19 hit middle Tennessee, the couple struggles, falls behind on rent, and ultimately recieve an eviction notice in October 2020, during the federal moratorium on evictions.