Strong waves of Asian American solidarity washed into the Berkeley community in the days and weeks after the anti-Asian Atlanta spa shooting on Mar. 16, 2021.

The 20 on ’20 project was created as a virtual time capsule, reflecting the sentiments of 20 college students on 2020.

Occasionally, tracks of experiences ran parallel but undoubtedly, no two people had the same experience for a year like 2020. Above all, we hope these portraits demonstrate the spectrum of change that 2020 brought and that their stories inspire others to reflect on their own takeaways from the last 12 months.

–Lisi Ludwig and Kanishka Metra

The game “Telephone” begins as all players sit in a circle and one player comes up with a message and whispers it to the person on either side of them. That person passes it on and so on and so forth. Upon reaching the last in the circle, the ultimate, often discombobulated, message is announced to the entire group.

This iteration of Telephone, a joint project between staff from The Daily Californian’s photo department and Weekender magazine, begins by photo and the prompt word “shift.” The word–whatever its form– trades 12 times between photograph and narrative. The end result is the same here as it is on playgrounds and in classrooms: a collaborative message imbued with marks of its origin and the fingerprints of everyone involved.