Many small businesses in Los Angeles refused to close after the county's mid-March “Safer at Home“ order. What it’s like to run a shadow business in the era of Covid-19:
Todd Bigelow is a Los Angeles-based photographer as well as an adjunct professor and founder of The Business of Photography Workshop. His work is represented by Contact Press Images.
Her salon is just one of many small businesses in Los Angeles that refused to close after the county's mid-March “Safer at Home“ order directed all “non-essential” business to shut down in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom allowed barbershops and salons in the state to reopen, meaning some of these business owners could start seeing customers legally as soon as this weekend. But L.A. County’s restrictions and safety standards for reopening are still higher than those in much of the state. And for the rest of those Bigelow spoke to, they say that until normality is fully restored, they’ll keep clawing to whatever business they can get.
Martial arts is a multibillion dollar industry composed mostly of small businesses. One Southern California instructor in Muay Thai who trained in Thailand and fought all over the world was put out of business when his academy was one of many gyms and training centers forced to close as a result of L.A.'s Safer at Home order. He says that bills piling up and a commitment to his students led him to start offering his services on driveways and in backyards.
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