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Antoine d’ Agata First hours of compulsory confinement. The streets of Paris are emptying. The last visible groups in the stations disappear at the rate of train departures. Place de Clichy, Grands Boulevards, Gare (...)
du Nord, Gare de L’Est, Place de la République, Bastille, St Lazare. France. Day 0 of France lockdown. Tuesday March 17, 2020 - Noon. © Antoine d’ Agata | Magnum Photos
Alex Majoli ITALY. Catania, Sicily. March 25, 2020. Carmelo Iacobello, head of the infectious-disease department at Cannizzaro Hospital, meets with his team. “I have never seen anything like this in my career, (...)
” he says. “You think everything is fine. Then, when it gets into the lungs, it convinces the body to fight so much, we end up killing our own bodies.” © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann The life in my neighborhood, surrounded in soviet skyscrapers has always been quiet anonymous. Many neighbors left to the countryside to stay at their summer homes. I started to observe the ones wh (...)
o stayed. I have noticed this dog some time ago. Now he changed his outfit- seemingly to fit to the current situation. He takes a walk at least three times a day. Sometimes in the company of a women, sometimes in the company of a man. Moscow. Russia. April 8, 2020. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Gregory Halpern USA. Rochester, New York. March 18, 2020. My wife Ahndraya and I have been home pretty much nonstop with our daughters Iris (3 years old) and Ava (6 years old). Schools are closed of course. Luckil (...)
y the weather is warming up, though it's still only 33°F here at the moment. Here's Iris, doing her morning check to see if the neighbor's cat, AKA "yellow cat," had gone outside or not yet. She had not, which was disappointing to all. © Gregory Halpern | Magnum Photos
Alec Soth I’ll never stop relearning the same lesson: a photograph doesn’t depict a thing; rather, it depicts light bouncing off of a thing. The movement of a cloud entirely changes the picture. To absorb th (...)
is lesson, one
needn’t travel to Mont Sainte-Victoire like Cezanne. It’s just a matter of quieting oneself and paying attention. This is hard to do during a pandemic. It feels like we’re falling off of a cliff. But if I turn off my iPhone and simply watch the light, I can see that the world is still spinning. Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. April 25, 2020. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy Coronavirus crisis. Intercommunal nursery Leon Dufour (Crèche Léon Dufour). During the virus outbreak no more than five kids are seen in the nursery, when the staff alternate the days of the week t (...)
o keep the service going. The masks are always and uninterruptedly worn to protect every moment of the daycare. Fecamp. France. Normandy. April 2020. © Jean Gaumy | Magnum Photos
Cristina García Rodero SPAIN. Madrid. April 20, 2020. The people who do the essential work in my Salamanca neighborhood in Madrid are those related to health, pharmacies, hospitals and markets, who are in charge of food (...)
and cleaning products, and also the delivery man, who these days are especially dedicated to collecting food orders and moving them quickly. A few days ago, construction workers were allowed to work and today they have given the green light to the anchovy fishermen. I would like to thank them all because with their dedication and courage they make it possible for us to buy masks, alcohol, disinfectants, gloves and to continue to give medication to so many people and to remedy other illnesses, running with all the risks. Several pharmacists have already died. To the workers in the markets, the distributors, the cashiers, the transporters, make it possible for us not to lack food, also risking our health. And to the young people who, with their bicycles and motorcycles, carry the food, or medicine, or any other need, work at any hour for a ridiculous wage. In these days they have demonstrated in protest because before they received 2.50 euro per order and now they are receiving half, 1.20 euro, without giving them any protection of masks, gloves, etc. When I go out I find them waiting to receive work over the phone. They are the only people I see, Madrid is empty. Soon the children under 12 will come out with many conditions, but it will be a joy to see them on the street. The difficult thing is to be able to work in these circumstances. In Spain it is one of the hardest confinements, except for food and health, you need to have proof to go to the allowed jobs. If you disobey, the fines are very high and in some cases, punished with jail, so I have had to work in the places where I go once a week or 10 days to buy food and to the pharmacies trying to find everything necessary to not get infected or spread the virus. All these products were quickly exhausted and we have been © Cristina García Rodero | Magnum Photos
Mark Power GB. Brighton. March 23, 2020. Over the course of seven weeks my partner Jo (now fiancé, after 31 years together) worked as a visiting artist in three schools in our local area of Brighton and Hove, (...)
on England’s south coast. She challenged the children, aged between 9 and 11, to pay greater attention to their journey from home to school and back, and to celebrate what they might see even along such a familiar route... in effect, psychogeography for beginners. The children made models of their houses, and sculptures reflecting their experiences as they walked. Each of the resulting maps, which Jo put together in my studio to be photographed for posterity, should have been displayed at a series of ’show and tells’ for parents, siblings and teachers, but these were cancelled along with seemingly everything else. Now all anyone, the children included, will get to see are these (and other) pictures. Below we see the map from St Martin's, and details of some of the houses made by the children of St Bartholomew’s. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Tehran. April 16, 2020. My husband is leaving Iran for a new job. Because of the Coronavirus we couldn't throw him a farewell party. Last weekend suddenly three friends showed up and, keeping (...)
social distancing in mind, we danced the night away. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Gregory Halpern USA. Rochester, New York. April 5, 2020. Gregory Halpern photographs his children ( Ava and Iris ) interacting with nature during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Our relationship with nature the past few (...)
weeks has been mostly in our backyard. Which I have never been more grateful for. When I was a kid, my brother and I spent endless hours in our backyard; it was world unto itself. I remember visiting our childhood house as an adult and being shocked at how small it actually was in relation to my memory. We have also taken some trips to the banks of the Genesee River, some of which is designated as a park, some of which is largely empty, scraggly bits of nature, but which have suited our needs perfectly. When I look at these pictures, I feel grateful that we are healthy, have a roof over our heads, and that our life has so far remained in tact, with the exception of our altered routines and rhythms. What I see has less to do with coronavirus and more to do with childhood and siblings, and for that I am grateful. © Gregory Halpern | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj GREECE. Athens. March 19, 2020. After all these years I’ve been living in Athens I feel the city has changed drastically in a few days. I believe it's the same in all places that new measures poppe (...)
d up suddenly. Just a few hours ago the country lockdown was announced. I’m driving around trying to capture the feel of the city. Now, Its quietness, emptiness, and those that are always out there. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Cristina García Rodero Madrid. Spain. April 20, 2020. The people who do the essential work in my Salamanca neighborhood in Madrid are those related to health, pharmacies, hospitals and markets, who are in charge of food (...)
and cleaning products, and also the delivery man, who these days are especially dedicated to collecting food orders and moving them quickly. A few days ago, construction workers were allowed to work and today they have given the green light to the anchovy fishermen. I would like to thank them all because with their dedication and courage they make it possible for us to buy masks, alcohol, disinfectants, gloves and to continue to give medication to so many people and to remedy other illnesses, running with all the risks. Several pharmacists have already died. To the workers in the markets, the distributors, the cashiers, the transporters, make it possible for us not to lack food, also risking our health. And to the young people who, with their bicycles and motorcycles, carry the food, or medicine, or any other need, work at any hour for a ridiculous wage. In these days they have demonstrated in protest because before they received 2.50 euro per order and now they are receiving half, 1.20 euro, without giving them any protection of masks, gloves, etc. When I go out I find them waiting to receive work over the phone. They are the only people I see, Madrid is empty. Soon the children under 12 will come out with many conditions, but it will be a joy to see them on the street. The difficult thing is to be able to work in these circumstances. In Spain it is one of the hardest confinements, except for food and health, you need to have proof to go to the allowed jobs. If you disobey, the fines are very high and in some cases, punished with jail, so I have had to work in the places where I go once a week or 10 days to buy food and to the pharmacies trying to find everything necessary to not get infected or spread the virus. All these products were quickly exhausted and we have been © Cristina García Rodero | Magnum Photos