Lockdown is intended to save lives, but how is it changing our lives?

2 METRES is a photography and storytelling project which explores the impact of social distancing personally and professionally.

In public people dance around new invisible lines, some with humour, some with fear. We try and envisage our 2 metre boundaries and stay behind them, safe from possible contagion or recrimination. It impacts more than how we navigate pavements, also affecting and limiting our work, leisure, romance and the fundamental human need for society and physical contact.

A lot of coverage of the lockdown has felt purposefully cheerful, and reflected an understandable need to make the best of a bad situation and inspire people. But the reality can be harder. I wanted to bring my lens to the very edge of this invisible 2 metre wall, to look through my isolation into someone else’s, and ask how have we changed already in this short time. 2 metres sounds like a small distance, but the consequences feel vast, and I wanted to portray the honest difficulties and losses alongside resilience and hope. 

2 METRES is published on Spiked.
ONE ROOM LOCKDOWN is published on The Telegraph.
ART UNDER LOCKDOWN is published on Spiked.