Grounded
A body of work spanning 50+ images taken from a limited year of travel as a digital nomad in the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, which has now been turned into a photobook available at ADM Publishing.
During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, many people’s perceived sense of home – of being ‘grounded’ – disappeared, overnight. Suddenly we found ourselves in a dystopian dreamworld, a world where our bedrooms became our offices, without boundaries or definition, where much yearned for social connection played out on a flat digital screen, and where touch became forbidden. When restrictions eased, I ventured to Europe in line with travel recommendations – but these feelings and perceptions travelled with me. And from this experience, this photobook was born.
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Self-portrait in India. At this stage I was still unaware that I would need to get back to the UK very quickly less than two weeks after this photo was shot.
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