The Best Photos Captured by VOSD Photographers in 2021 — Voice of San Diego

Voice of San Diego is thought for ground-breaking investigations that maintain native leaders and companies accountable. Our reporters spent numerous hours analyzing advanced points to inform our readers how particular insurance policies and selections have an effect on them. 

It isn’t a straightforward job and typically it takes extra than simply written work. That’s the place photographs come in.  

In 2021, VOSD’s photojournalists had been on the bottom documenting occasions and moments that confirmed how these advanced points have an effect on San Diego residents.  

Right here is a few of our greatest work.  

On the identical day tons of stormed on the U.S. Capitol constructing in Washington, D.C., native Trump supporters protested the 2020 presidential election outcomes at the San Diego County Administration Heart in downtown. Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

As San Diego County started to obtain shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, well being care staff and weak residents had been positioned on the entrance of the road to obtain their photographs. Homeless residents staying on the non permanent shelter in the Conference Heart, like Impolite Rowe pictured above, acquired their first vaccines on Feb. 3.  Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

Again in March, VOSD’s Lisa Halverstadt checked in on Mayor Todd Gloria plan to deal with homeless tent encampments that had elevated in downtown San Diego. 

Then, a horrible crash happened on March 15 when a driver plowed into a homeless encampment arrange beneath a bridge subsequent to San Diego Metropolis School, killing three and injuring six others. The tragedy put the problem into perspective. Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

San Diego Unified Faculty District reopened school rooms to college students whose households opted to return to in-person instruction on April 12. Image above are third grade college students at Encanto Elementary watching a video throughout class.  Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

Deadly drug overdoses, significantly these involving fentanyl, have soared because the opioid has increasingly flowed onto San Diego streets and been laced with different medicine, together with methamphetamine. San Diego’s homeless group has been significantly weak.  

On Could 10, VOSD’s Megan Wooden adopted Tara Buesig, govt director of the Hurt Discount Coalition Of San Diego County, as she handed out fentanyl drug testing strips in Level Loma. Photograph by Megan Wooden 

After former VOSD Reporter Kayla Jiminez uncovered sexual harassment allegations towards CSU San Marcos Professor Chetan Kumar, college students protested the college’s resolution to not fireplace him on June 12.  Photograph by Adriana Heldiz

Following a tortilla-throwing incident throughout a Coronado Excessive Faculty Males’s Basketball sport in June, former Coronado students spoke out about methods they had been mistreated by the district. 

Imani Ware and Irlanda Goulding, pictured above, had been each on the soccer crew whereas attending Coronado Excessive Faculty and confronted or witnessed racial discrimination. Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

San Diego Police Officer Nick Medina points a warning to a person he stated threatened him with an exercising weight whereas conducting a homeless encampment sweep alongside 17 Avenue on Aug. 18, 2021. Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

Lidia Davalos sweeps outdoors close to her dwelling in Tijuana’s Colonia Nueva Esperanza Sept. 15, 2021. 

 VOSD contributor Carlos A. Moreno went to the neighborhood, a former farming space, to get a greater glimpse of the brand new Amazon warehouse that’s stirring controversy. The pictures he produced as half of a photo essay are stark. They present a shiny new constructing — a monument, if you’ll, to the brand new international financial order — overshadowing the shacks the place residents dwell close by. Photograph by Carlos A. Moreno 

Mexican authorities help Haitian immigrants with the assistance of a translator on the COMAR workplaces, Mexico’s refugee company, to register for refugee standing on Oct. 13, 2021.   

In October, officers in Tijuana had been seeing an increase in functions from Haitians. Border Report Author Sandra Dibble spoke to some of those Haitians and the way they’re evaluating whether or not they’ll keep in Tijuana or attempt to cross the U.S. border. Photograph by Joebeth Terriquez 

Matt Costa, a coastal oceanographer measures and notes the completely different ranges of sediment that he dug up from the Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve in Mission Seashore. Researchers will use the samples to find out how a lot carbon is in the marsh.  Photograph by Adriana Heldiz 

Gemma Rama-Banaag, a chief nursing officer at Paradise Valley Hospital, holds a photograph of her late husband Chester Banaag when he was in dental faculty. He died of COVID-19 problems on Jan. 1, 2021. 
 
As half of our Year One: COVID-19’s Death Toll reporting sequence, VOSD’s Maya Srikrishnan checked out how the pandemic has affected the Filipino community. She discovered Filipinos had been the third largest nationality for pandemic deaths in San Diego in 2020. Photograph by Adriana Heldiz