Living through the Covid Pandemic was the biggest challenge we have faced for over seventy years.  The Pandemic was also history in the making.

As a photographer living in St Albans, I worked with St Albans Museums, local community groups and businesses during 2020 and 2021 to record the way in which we survived the Pandemic.  I did that that by making portraits of people, mainly in the Market Place, but also elsewhere in town, as they went about their daily lives, shopping, working etc.  I took photographs of people both wearing and not wearing their Covid-safety masks.  I also asked everyone photographed to say a few words about the Pandemic and how it had affected them.  I produced the portraits as digital diptychs - portraits of each person with and without a mask, side by side, with a short caption beneath.  The portraits reflect the diversity of St Albans.

Click here for a fuller description of the PANDEMIC PORTRAITS project.

And here for monthly editions of PANDEMIC PORTRAITS as MP4s with individual sound tracks.

Or click on the images below to see the diptychs in album format. 

All the diptychs were exhibited as a multi-media presentation at the St Albans Museum and Gallery and are preserved in the Museum archives for future research.