A YEAR AGO, photographer Alberto Rodriguez would have been jostling for position on a celebrity red carpet during Hollywood’s hectic awards season.
Today, with award shows going virtual, you’re more likely to find the 20-year veteran delivering food for Uber.
“My last full-blown premiere was ‘Mulan,’ I think it was March 9 or 10th of last year,” said Rodriguez. “The next photo assignment I was able to get was in October.”
The coronavirus pandemic didn’t just shutter movie theaters, music venues and halt production on scores of films and television shows.
It also threw out of work the security guards, florists, caterers, waiters, limousine drivers and photographers who make a living from the parties, movie premieres and lunches that take place around the Golden Globes, Grammys, Oscars and multiple other show business events between January and March.
A 2013 report by the Los Angeles Economic Development Council said that Oscar
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