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During the Covid-19 pandemic we found ourselves unexpectedly living in an age where our body temperature had assumed a new set of implications: we all became potential carriers and spreaders of the virus. Neither wealth, race, class nor privilege could inoculate us. What followed was a strange and unsettling series of lockdowns, restrictions and new routines involuntarily placed on our everyday lives. Covid hasn't disappeared, but our fear of it has changed, mutated, yet it still lingers, much like the virus.

What does it mean then, to capture work about such an absence/constant in our lives? How do we document something that can't be seen?

From a psychoanalytical position the work opens a conversation about the limits of photography's ability to communicate about environment and the subconscious. Cold blues and greens peppered with hues of red and orange allow for both a consistency of image and a visual archive of work that brings together the natural and domestic landscape, but the limitations of the camera to capture our flickering life force is what makes this body of work different. Each image is a point of departure. By focussing not only on the exceptions of that time but also on the mundanity of everyday life, this process of image capture seeks to create a profound sense of self and place. 

This series of images exists outside of what we understand about our world, a recalibration of how we view our lives. Siphoned thorough a process that makes the unseen, not necessarily visible, but certainly more poignant and vital, surreal and lucid.


 

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During the Covid-19 pandemic we found ourselves unexpectedly living in an age where our body temperature had assumed a new set of implications: we all became potential carriers and spreaders of the virus. Neither wealth, race, class nor privilege could inoculate us. What followed was a strange and unsettling series of lockdowns, restrictions and new routines involuntarily placed on our everyday lives. Covid hasn’t disappeared, but our fear of it has changed, mutated, yet it still lingers, much like the virus.

What does it mean then, to capture work about such an absence/constant in our lives? How do we document something that can’t be seen?

From a psychoanalytical position the work opens a conversation about the limits of photography’s ability to communicate about environment and the subconscious. Cold blues and greens peppered with hues of red and orange allow for both a consistency of image and a visual archive of work that brings together the natural and domestic landscape, but the limitations of the camera to capture our flickering life force is what makes this body of work different. Each image is a point of departure. By focussing not only on the exceptions of that time but also on the mundanity of everyday life, this process of image capture seeks to create a profound sense of self and place.

This archive of images exists outside of what we understand about our world, a recalibration of how we view our lives. Siphoned thorough a process that makes the unseen, not necessarily visible, but certainly more poignant and vital, surreal and lucid.

 

 

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London - June 26, 2020: We find ourselves unexpectedly living in an age when body temperature has assumed a new set of implications: we’re all potential carriers and spreaders of Covid-19. As part of a conceptual series of images shot on assignment, I used a thermal camera to examine what daily life currently looks like with restrictions placed on ordinary events and new routines becoming our everyday. Here, Londoners relax while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in Greenwich Park, south London, with the National Maritime Museum and towers of Canary Wharf on the city skyline.

London - 30th June 2020: We find ourselves unexpectedly living in an age when body temperature has assumed a new set of implications: we’re all potential carriers and spreaders of Covid-19. As part of a conceptual series of images shot on assignment, I used a thermal camera to examine what daily life currently looks like with restrictions placed on ordinary events and new routines becoming our everyday. Here, a pupil at L’Ecole de Battersea - an English-French bilingual preparatory school in South London - has their temperature checked by a member of staff as they enter the school. Since reopening at the start of June the school has been seeking solutions to lower the risk of transmission between staff and pupils and have implemented a range of measures, including installation of IQ air purifiers with HEPA filters, which remove PM2.5 particles containing bacteria and viruses. Fogging machines, which use Hypochlorous acid to decontaminate the school, are also used throughout the building. This has resulted in no reported cases of COVID-19 at the school during the pandemic so far.

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London - 29th June 2020: We find ourselves unexpectedly living in an age when body temperature has assumed a new set of implications: we’re all potential carriers and spreaders of Covid-19. As part of a conceptual series of images shot on assignment, I used a thermal camera to examine what daily life currently looks like with restrictions placed on ordinary events and new routines becoming our everyday. Here a member of staff from the Vaccine Institute, St George’s, University of London & St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust, injects a participant with the trial COVID-19 human vaccine as part of the University of Oxford COVID-19 UK wide vaccine trial. The blue around the injection site shows the vaccine starting to disperse into the body.

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London - June 29, 2020: We find ourselves unexpectedly living in an age when body temperature has assumed a new set of implications: we’re all potential carriers and spreaders of Covid-19. As part of a conceptual series of images shot on assignment, I used a thermal camera to examine what daily life currently looks like with restrictions placed on ordinary events and new routines becoming our everyday. Here a lone person walks through the Barbican Estate, during the Covid_19 pandemic.