June 2020
Knitting for the NHS
17/06/20 16:06 Filed in: Personal work | Reportage
By Definition, lockdown has forced us all to look for creative inspiration closer to home.
Rather than the strange emptiness of urban spaces during lockdown, my experience has been one of calm, in the rural setting of the village I inhabit. Having the time for "daily walks" has allowed me to explore my surroundings to notice the details of a burgeoning community spirit, none more so than in the emergence of knitted rainbows and wrappings that adorn the street furniture around the village in a spirit of hope and support for the NHS. This, together with the occasional sight of and polite interaction, at a respectful distance with other walkers and cyclists has encapsulated my experience of this strange period of our existence.
My focus turned to documenting these details and the efforts of the artists and makers behind them to work on a book project to remember this period where time slowed down, in my case for the first significant stretch of time in over 30 years as a working photographer.
Here is a small selection of some of the images with a link to a larger selection at the end.
Click here to view a broader selection of images from the project.
Rather than the strange emptiness of urban spaces during lockdown, my experience has been one of calm, in the rural setting of the village I inhabit. Having the time for "daily walks" has allowed me to explore my surroundings to notice the details of a burgeoning community spirit, none more so than in the emergence of knitted rainbows and wrappings that adorn the street furniture around the village in a spirit of hope and support for the NHS. This, together with the occasional sight of and polite interaction, at a respectful distance with other walkers and cyclists has encapsulated my experience of this strange period of our existence.
My focus turned to documenting these details and the efforts of the artists and makers behind them to work on a book project to remember this period where time slowed down, in my case for the first significant stretch of time in over 30 years as a working photographer.
Here is a small selection of some of the images with a link to a larger selection at the end.
Click here to view a broader selection of images from the project.
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