Coronavirus photo thread

Today was the second day of relaxed lockdown restrictions in NSW. People are allowed to sit down outdoors and gather in groups not exceeding 10 people. Cafes can seat up to 10 patrons as long as they maintain social distance. Sydney beaches were crowded - this is Dee Why, where lots were swimming despite the beach closed sign.

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Instax SQ6
 
Here is something I wrote in response for the pandemic and a body of work I sort of finished previously: https://medium.com/photocurious/revisiting-islands-e7bc7c734328

Also I would encourage you to check out the link to Marc Prüst videos in the text. They are quite good. Some of the best discussions on photography as a story telling medium I've seen

Stay safe and healthy everyone...

Bojan
 
@Charles - there's funny kind of social symmetry in that second photo of people on the benches. I wonder when we'll return to a more normal sense of distance, or will this become the new normal?

It was a family out with the dog. I suspect it was more regular family grumpiness than a new norm, but I could be misreading it!
 
MAP6 Collective: The Isolation Project
http://www.map6.co.uk/the-isolation-project-photographs

I went as part of the photo collective MAP6 to Finland in March. Suddenly, the COVID-19 situation worsened and we found ourselves trapped in a country with locked borders...

''On March 16th, five members of the MAP6 collective flew to Finland to photograph the area around Rovaniemi in Lapland. The coronavirus was beginning to take hold across the world; it had been ranked as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11th, and its impact was only just beginning to be realised. Within hours of arriving they were notified that all return flights had been cancelled. With the country entering a state of emergency and the borders closed, the MAP6 members were potentially stranded. Events escalated as they watched alarming news updates from their apartment. Museums and schools had closed in Rovaniemi, and restaurants and bars were shutting. This was the beginning of a global lockdown. For four days the MAP6 photographers documented the crisis from within Finland, whilst awaiting confirmation of a flight home. The text is from headlines that appeared on various social media channels during that time.''

[click image to view work]

 
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