Records: Berlin LOCKDOWN

When the first alarming reports of the virus began to circulate, I was in Oxford on a visiting stay. I cut it slightly short and returned to Berlin, where I was living at the time. I still remember the news of the first major outbreak in Italy, and the dense, dark fear I felt for my family in Tuscany.

The lockdown in Berlin unfolded more gently than elsewhere. People were not strictly confined indoors, though movement was strongly discouraged. After weeks inside, I began to walk again. These photographs are the result of those walks through streets suddenly emptied of people, recording both their absence and the strength of human traces momentarily left behind.