As part of our #CultureIsNotCancelled campaign – which aims to champion creativity in the age of social distancing – we have launched a new series called The Self-Isolation Photographic Diaries, inviting a selection of photographers to send us an image each week, creating a unique documentation of life in lockdown.
Dougie Irvine (lead image)
“We think we own whatever land we land on The Earth is just a dead thing we can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name.”
– Pocahontas, 1995
Photography by Alexandra Leese
Alexandra Leese
“My place.”
Photography by Kuba Ryniewicz
Kuba Ryniewicz
“Self-portrait as Polaroid in the bath, Newcastle, May 2020.”
Photography by Lorena Lohr
Lorena Lohr
“As there’s less potential to move around these days, memory becomes more of an object in the room. For some reason, I keep on remembering an Elvis impersonator singing Are You Lonesome Tonight in a barnhouse restaurant next to a Days Inn motel in Memphis. Here is the real Elvis’s bed, being kept clean under a layer of wipe-down plastic sheeting.”