More and more pressure is being applied on the NSW Government to make face masks mandatory in certain public spaces, such as on public transport. In the meantime, more and more people are taking it upon themselves to ‘mask up’ when out and about.
These photographs of shoppers, office workers and commuters were taken in Sydney’s CBD against the growing number of black hoardings which have sprung up around the city, where prominent retail shops once stood, now closed down and boarded up due to the economic downturn.
While photographing these images, I wondered about the thousands of deeply personal stories from behind the masks - these eyes without faces - that hurriedly passed me by; stories of anguish, strained love and unrelenting anxiety simultaneously suppressed and brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Part of an ongoing series, ‘COVID-19 Diaries’
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