Melissa Golden - Photographer - Atlanta, GA

Black Voters Matter co-founder Cliff Albright is photographed outside the organization’s offices in Atlanta, Ga. on Thursday, November 12, 2020.

Selected commissions from the past 12 months. Updated regularly.

Black Voters Matter co-founder Cliff Albright wears his custom Nikes in Atlanta, Ga. on Thursday, November 12, 2020.
Clerk of Superior Court Chekeidra Crimes is photographed in front of the courthouse in Preston, Ga. on Saturday, December 5, 2020. After running for office in rural southwest Georgia, Crimes has insights into how communities there perceive politics, parti
SMYRNA GA. - OCT 14, 2020: Chloe Ezi, 19, is photographed on the day she moved into her own apartment with her boyfriend. Ezi previously found herself living at her boyfriend’s parents’ home during the pandemic after her employer paid partial wages rende
TRAVELERS REST, SC - SEP 29, 2020: Ashley Tolley, seen here outside her home, was hacked in August when a criminal got into her Cash App account and took all of the child support money she had just been sent and was relying on to get through the month. T
At the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark in Atlanta, Ga. on Friday, September 11, 2020.
TRAVELERS REST, SC - SEP 29, 2020: Ashley Tolley shows the balance screen for her Cash App account. Tolley was hacked in August when a criminal got into her Cash App account and took all of the child support money she had just been sent and was relying o
Loretta Cecil in Alpharetta, Ga.
ATLANTA GA. - OCT 1, 2020: Spanx founder Sara Blakely and her husband Jesse Itzler go on one of their regular pre-dinner walks around the neighborhood with their four children. Melissa Golden for The New York Times
Juan Bedoya supervises a sparring session between his daughters Santana, 5 and Isla, 9 at home in Lawrenceville, Ga.
Juan Bedoya, 44, shadow boxes during his at-home boxing workout in Lawrenceville, Ga. on Friday, September 18, 2020.
Juan Bedoya modified a dumbbell to add weights to his shadowboxing sessions for his at-home boxing workout in Lawrenceville, Ga. on Friday, September 18, 2020.
Through a series of exercises like tricep dips and scapular pushups, Ironman Coach Wendy Mader can teach you how to enhance your swimming strength without a pool.
People gathered at the John Lewis mural in downtown Atlanta view the hearse carrying Georgia Congressman John Lewis as it pauses on its way to the Georgia State Capitol where Lewis will lie in state in the rotunda. ssa G
Laura Craft with her Ducati V4 Speciale in Atlanta, Ga. on Sunday, August 9, 2020.
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 29, 2020: Signs, flowers and other offerings are seen at the base of the John Lewis mural in downtown Atlanta. Melissa Golden for The New York Times
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 29, 2020: Toni Hackney salutes the casket of Congressman John Lewis inside the Georgia State Capitol Rotunda. Hackney is a veteran who served in the Army for 16 years. “He helped me to get housing. I was homeless,” she said of Lewis. Sh
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 30, 2020: Mourners outside Ebenezer Baptist Church pay respects and watch a broadcast of the funeral of Georgia Congressman John Lewis being held at the church. Melissa Golden for The New York Times
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 29, 2020: Zaniyah Reed, 7, signs a large sympathy card for the family of Congressman John Lewis across from the Georgia State Capitol Building. The card was the idea of Bruce W Griggs who says he knew Lewis for 25 years. Griggs also sai
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 30, 2020: Out front of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Kristen Brown of Atlanta raises her fist as Lane Green of Charlotte, NC wipes away a tear watching the broadcast of the funeral of Georgia Congressman John Lewis being held at the church. M
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 30, 2020: Bystander Al Herring of Atlanta watches as the funeral procession carrying Georgia Congressman John Lewis arrives at Atlanta’s South-View Cemetery. Melissa Golden for The New York Times
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 30, 2020: Twins Genevieve and Jeanette Lewis wait across the street from Atlanta’s South-View Cemetery for the funeral procession carrying Georgia Congressman John Lewis. Melissa Golden for The New York Times
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 30, 2020: The funeral procession carrying Georgia Congressman John Lewis arrives at Atlanta’s South-View Cemetery. Melissa Golden for The New York Times
JEFFERSON GA. - JUL 24, 2020: Jefferson High School principal Brian Moore is photographed at the school. The Jefferson City School System intends to begin the academic year as planned with in-class education July 31. Each student will be given a cloth ma
JEFFERSON GA. - JUL 24, 2020: A box of masks with Jefferson High School’s signature J. The Jefferson City School System intends to begin the academic year as planned with in-class education July 31. Each student will be given a cloth mask on their first
JEFFERSON GA. - JUL 24, 2020: Rising seniors Hope Terhune and Rylee Meadows started a petition to make wearing masks mandatory at school. The Jefferson City School System intends to begin the academic year as planned with in-class education July 31. Each
JEFFERSON GA. - JUL 24, 2020: A shuttered gas station downtown displays local school pride. The Jefferson City School System intends to begin the academic year as planned with in-class education July 31. Each student will be given a cloth mask on their f
JEFFERSON GA. - JUL 24, 2020: Trophies can be seen in the window of a building at Jefferson High School. The Jefferson City School System intends to begin the academic year as planned with in-class education July 31. Each student will be given a cloth ma
TUCKER GA. - JUL 21, 2020: Yolanda Jackson is photographed at the threshold to her apartment where she has lived for seven years. Jackson, who worked in special education in the DeKalb County schools in metro Atlanta, lost her job in March when the scho
TUCKER GA. - JUL 21, 2020: An apartment complex in Tucker, Ga. outside Atlanta is one of thousands across the nation likely to see a rush of evictions when the CARES Act moratorium expires on Aug. 24. Even with the law in place, landlords have been carr
John Hope Bryant is photographed at his home in Fayetteville, Ga. on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. CREDIT: Melissa Golden for The Wall Street Journal Weekend Confidential - John Hope Bryant
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 10, 2020: Everett Gray takes a moment with Izzy in between a game of fetch at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta. Izzy, a 10-year-old golden retriever, works full-time with the hospital’s Canine for Kids program. She and six other dogs conti
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 10, 2020: A patch on Izzy’s vest encourages interaction at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, although because of Covid-19, hands are now sanitized before and after petting. Izzy, a 10-year-old golden retriever, works full-time with the hos
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 10, 2020: Everett Gray holds Izzy’s paw at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta. Izzy, a 10-year-old golden retriever, works full-time with the hospital’s Canine for Kids program. She and six other dogs continue to bring comfort to children as
ATLANTA GA. - JUL 10, 2020: Everett Gray, 8, hugs his mother Kelley Gray in the garden at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta. Everett’s donor heart began to fail in March of this year prompting more time in the hospital. A service dog named Izzy, deemed an es
Owner Chris Escobar is photographed on on the marquee of the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, Ga. on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Despite preparations for the evening’s showings, a city-wide curfew was suddenly instituted in response to protests across the nation and
The Plaza Theater in Atlanta, Ga. is a classic institution that has had to adapt to obstacles created by the pandemic. While the interior theater sits empty, owner Chris Escobar started hosting pop-up drive-in movies in the rear parking lot and another lo
at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, Ga. on Saturday, June 13, 2020.
at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, Ga. on Saturday, June 13, 2020.
An employee ushers cars to their spots at the Plaza Theater’s Saturday night drive-in showing of “Do The Right Thing.”
Patrons sit in their cars and watch the start of “Do The Right Thing” at the Plaza Theater’s Saturday night pop-up drive-in.
A projector screens “Sorry to Bother You” at the secondary location of the Plaza Theater’s pop-up drive-in.
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