一个非凡艺术项目震撼且辛酸的记录，也是为在疫情期间为社区不知疲倦工作的前线医务人员们的庆祝。

艾丽莎·尼森鲍姆 (Aliza Nisenbaum) 是一位享誉国际的画家，以其明亮的大型社区团体肖像画而闻名。受到在利物浦（Liverpool）主要工作人员的奉献精神的启发，这位艺术家决定创作一系列新画，描绘在疫情期间为社区不知疲倦工作的来自默西塞德郡 NHS（英国国家医疗服务体系）工作人员。

2020 年夏天，尼森鲍姆联系了默西塞德郡 NHS工作人员中的几位主要人员，他们都同意坐下来被作画像。这些人员包括一名流行病学教授、一名呼吸科医生（在**波疫情中刚当上爸爸），以及一名来自护士家庭的学生护士（他们一家都选择返回抗疫线工作）。在接下来的几周里，艾丽莎·尼森鲍姆在美国工作室与他们视频交谈，创作了一系列辛酸却充满力量的画像，画像里每个人都附言上了支撑他们并给予他们希望的事物。

该书将这些非凡的画像汇集在一起，讲述了这些工作人员的故事，揭示了疫情对他们的工作和生活的影响。

A powerful and poignant record of an extraordinary artistic project, and a celebration of the frontline medical staff who have worked tirelessly for their community during the pandemic.

Aliza Nisenbaum is an internationally acclaimed painter best known for her bright, large-scale portraits of community groups. Inspired by the dedication of Liverpool's key workers, the artist decided to create a series of new paintings of NHS staff from Merseyside who have worked tirelessly for their community during the pandemic.

In the summer of 2020, Nisenbaum contacted a few key members of Merseyside NHS staff, who agreed to sit for portraits. The staff included a professor of Outbreak Medicine, a respiratory doctor who became a father during the first wave, and a student nurse from a family of nurses who all chose to return to frontline work. Over the next few weeks, talking to them via video link from her studio in the US, Aliza Nisenbaum created a series of poignant and powerful portraits, with each sitter depicted with the things that sustained them and given them hope.

This publication captures these extraordinary portraits together, and tells the stories of the sitters, revealing the impact of the pandemic on their jobs, and on their lives.