A short first set of images taken on my regular exercise walks and cycles through the villages of Great and Little Shelford and Stapleford, just south of Cambridge. All relate to the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown in late March and early April 2020 on local people’s lives.
Deserted croquet lawn, Stapleford Rectory.
I’ve included examples of several themes that have struck me so far - the emptiness and desertion of roads, pavements and public spaces, closure of businesses and amenities, discarded clinical gloves, social distancing marks on the floors of shops, and explanatory signs (including some unfortunate juxtapositions).
Also the cheering aspects - the national teddy bear and rainbow initiatives, for example.
More will follow in later sets.
My title comes from “Drive-by Shootings”, a book of street photography images taken in the 2000s by David Bradford, a New YorK cab driver. For example see: http://drivebyshootings.com/gallery/AT_WORK/
We are discouraged for social distancing reasons from stopping when on exercise sessions away from home, so in parallel with David Bradford I’m practicing the art of ‘briefest of pauses’ when taking these images. I’m using my smallest camera to have less visual impact, and I shan’t be including any identifiable images of people: I feel these measures are appropriate.
So, ‘High Art’ these are not, but I hope they’ll build into an appropriate memoir.
Rainbows 1
Rainbows 2
Rainbows 3.
Stapleford Slaughterhouse.
Clinical waste.
Teddy Bear 1.
Teddy Bear 2.
Teddy Bear 3.
Closed Down Reserve.
Co-Op distancing.
Restaurant closure.