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A circus with no applause: how coronavirus changed the world – in pictures

August 12, 2020

  • The Urban Void: Silence

    Florence, Italy, motionless and deserted during lockdown. The city’s squares and churches seem straight out of an art history book, where people were removed from the pictures so that the focus would not be diverted from the architecture. The 10th edition of the Cortona on the Move international festival runs until 23 August. The Covid-19 Visual Project: A Time of Distance is an ongoing permanent archive on the coronavirus pandemic.

    Photograph: Edoardo Delille

    The Urban Void: Silenzio (Silence)Italy Florence, motionless and deserted, during lockdown. Squares and churches that seem straight out of an Art History book, where people were removed from the pictures so that the focus would not be diverted from the architecture. The shots from above are reminiscent of the view from the window, to which we have become accustomed by the isolation of the home, and return even more the sense of stasis and suspended time.


  • The Urban Void: Lost Capital

    A deserted London suddenly shines forth, after the signs of daily life (cars, trucks, people) are removed due to lockdown. Buildings look like their architect’s plans; unblotted, sharp. Simon Norfolk’s shots reveal a London as pure and immaculate as we’ve ever seen it.

    Photograph: Simon Norfolk

    The Urban Void: Lost CapitalA deserted London suddenly shines forth, after the signs of daily life (cars, trucks, people) are removed due to lockdown. Buildings look like their architect’s plans; unblotted, sharp. Simon Norfolk’s shots reveal a London as pure and immaculate as we’ve never seen it.


  • The Health Challenge: The Life and Death Shift

    Laura Righetti, 30 years old, volunteer EMT for Croce Blu, Brescia, Italy: ‘I was teaching elementary school, going out with my friends to get an aperitivo after work. Now when we go into people’s houses, we scare them. They used to see our faces, but now we’re completely covered. It’s as if we’re aliens.’

    Photograph: Andrea Frazzetta

    The health challengeThe Life and Death Shift. Laura Righetti, 30 years old, volunteer EMT for Croce Blu, Brescia: “Two months ago, I was teaching elementary school, going out with my friends to get an aperitivo after work. Now we are busy all the time. When we go into people’s houses, we scare them.” A series of portraits taken by Andrea Frazzetta shows the effort, commitment, passion and moments of discouragement. In a word, everyday life.


  • Shelter in Place: Outside

    From the perspective of a terrace offering an 180-degree view of the city, Luis Cobelo recounts Barcelona’s lockdown. This work explores humanity in its new habits and new meeting places, socialising at a distance: roofs, balconies, windows.

    Photograph: Luis Cobelo

    Shelter in place: Afuera Spain From the perspective of a terrace offering a 180-degree view of the city, Luis Cobelo recounts Barcelona’s lockdown. A video work that explores humanity in its new habits and new meeting places, socializing at a distance: roofs, balconies, windows.


  • Shelter in Place: Sharing

    Because of lockdown some families have managed to reunite. Others have remained separated, with members isolated in remote places and far from their loved ones. The concept of living together has thus changed, creating new relationships of forced sharing, with new use of space. COndiVIDendo 19 is a photographic and social project that looks at the co-habitation of Italian citizens during the health emergency.

    Photograph: Mattia Crocetti

    Shelter in place: Condividere (sharing)Because of the lockdown some families have managed to reunite. Others have remained separated, with members isolated in remote places and far from their loved ones. The concept of living together has thus changed, creating new relationships of forced sharing, with new use of space, new habits, emotions and fears. COndiVIDendo 19 is a photographic and social project that narrates, with a collaborative method, the co-habitation of Italian citizens during the health emergency.


  • Shelter in Place: Outside

    Another picture by Luis Cobelo overlooking Barcelona in lockdown from a terrace.

    Photograph: Luis Cobelo

    Shelter in Place: OutsideAnother picture by Luis Cobelo overlooking Barcelona in lockdown from a terrace.


  • Shelter in Place: Scene

    Opera singer and artist Laura Baldassarri singing Lascia ch’io Pianga by Handel. Since the first day of lockdown, flash mobs have been organised all over Italy. Windows, balconies, or any private spaces have been transformed into stages for music, songs or clapping in honour of medical staff. In Alex Majoli’s theatrical style, every image becomes an icon.

    Photograph: Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos

    Shelter in place: Opera singer and artist Laura Baldassarri singing “ “lascia ch’io pianga” by Rinaldo di Handel. Since the very first day of the lockdown many Flash mobs have been organised all over Italy. Windows, balconies, or any private spaces have been transformed into stages where music, songs or simple clapping in honor of all medical staff has been performed . In his theatrical style, Alex Majoli every image becomes an icon. For the viewer, a return to a past-present that we cannot forget. A unique work, in which the nuances emerge


  • The Economic Effects: Local Business

    Local shopkeepers in Italy have regained a commercial and social role in their neighbourhood that was thought to have been lost in Covid-19. Gabriele Galimberti visited them in Turin and Milan, as well as at his home in Florence, and photographed them in front of fully stocked counters.

    Photograph: Gabriele Galimberti

    The Economic Effects : Local Business Italy Local shopkeepers raised their heads during the COVID-19 emergency and regained a commercial and social role in their neighbourhood which was thought to have been lost. Gabriele Galimberti visited them in Turin and Milan, as well as at his home in Florence, and portrayed them like this: strutting, at the entrance to their shop or inside, in front of their fully stocked counter, wearing the mask that marks these sad days, but strongly aware that they are part of a community of people.


  • The Economic Effects: Contingency Plans

    Prada is one of the leading luxury fashion brands in the world. It converted this factory in Perugia, Italy, from the production of clothing to making 110,000 face masks for the medical staff of Tuscany.

    Photograph: Mattia Balsamini

    Economic Effects: Contingency Plans Prada production plant in Montone (Perugia, Italy). Prada, one of the leading brands in the fashion and luxury sector worldwide, has decided to make its contribution by converting the factory in Montone, in the province of Perugia, from the production of trousers to that of 110 thousand masks for the medical staff of Tuscany.


  • A Wounded Society: Locked in Beauty

    Le Tre Grazie by Antonio Canova, in Galleria d’Italia, Milano. What do museums look like emptied of visitors? Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti had a unique opportunity to look inside some of the foremost museums in Italy. In search of beauty, they have tried to pull artworks out of the darkness and reinvent them with light.

    Photograph: Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti

    A wounded Society: Locked in BeautyLe Tre Grazie by Antonio Canova. 1812-1817 in Galleria d’Italia, MilanoWhat do these museums look like emptied of visitors? Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti had the unique opportunity to be the only visitors allowed in some of the most iconic museums in Italy. In their search of beauty, they have tried to pull the artwork out from the darkness they are in now and reinvent them through light.


  • A Wounded Society: 2Metres

    Ritratti Mascherati in east London. These portraits were made on Ridley Road food market during lockdown. The red road markings were painted by Hackney council to indicate optimum social distancing. The photographs were taken with a constant, unchanging frame, capturing the different communities that rub up against each other in this space, hoping to give a sense of something uniquely local and global at the same time.

    Photograph: Gideon Mendel

    A wounded Society: 2METRES Ritratti mascherati in Ridley Road, London. These portraits were made on Ridley Road Food Market during the time of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown. The red markings on the road were painted by Hackney Council to indicate the two metres of social distance that is advised for shoppers. The photographs were taken with a constant, unchanging frame, capturing the different communities that rub up against each other in this space, hoping to give a sense of something uniquely local and global at the same time.https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/21/mind-the-gap-two-metres-apart-masked-ridley-road-hackney-a-photo-essay


  • A Wounded Society: Next Stop

    For nine days, Daniele Ratti drove along Italy’s highways from south to north, then from east to west, meeting very few cars. These service stations during Coronavirus seem to have lost their meaning.

    Photograph: Daniele Ratti

    A Wounded Society: Next stopFor nine days, Daniele Ratti drove along Italy’s highways from south to north, then from east to west, meeting very few cars. These service stations during Coronavirus seem to have lost their meaning.


  • Covid on Scene: The Dreams of Rome

    Mo Scarpelli explores the resilience of our imagination in unpredictable times, as told by Romans through the dreams they’ve had during 50 days of strict quarantine.

    Photograph: Mo Scarpelli

    Covid on Scene: The Dreams of RomeMo Scarpelli explores the resilience of our imagination in the unpredictable times of the pandemic, as told by the Romans through the dreams they’ve had during 50 days of strict quarantine. The Romans’ voices in this series of five short films provide us an exercise in survival. The dreamers recorded their voices alone, shut into their house, in a similar position to when they dreamed, and sometimes right after a dream. They transmit the facts — images, sounds and sensations — of their strongest dreams during the lockdown.


  • Covid on Scene: The Silent Clapping of Their Hands

    What makes Claudio – a showman and circus performer – so special is that he needs applause that is no longer there. Covid has made his existence even more fragile and solitary, and the images narrate that emptiness.

    Photograph: Davide Bertuccio

    Covid on Scene: The silent clapping of their handsDavide Bertuccio recounts someone’s life today, marked by the passage of time and the experiences of an individual that could be those of each one of us. What makes Claudio - a showman and circus performer - so special, is that he needs an applause that is no longer there. The consequences of COVID-19 made his existence even more fragile and solitary, and the images put together by the photographer narrate this very emptiness.


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