It’s Sunday 29th March 2020 and we have been officially in lockdown for seven days, with permitted outings for essential groceries, exercise and work if you cannot work from home. Today, I rolled the three in to one with a cycle trip through Cardiff city centre and headed to my studio in Cardiff Bay to check mail and get essential work-from-home items.
Normally, I’d go out of my way to get urban shots that didn’t have people in. Being a lover of architecture and striking buildings, you would have thought that this was an ideal opportunity, but I wont lie, the occasion certainly comes with much darker undertones.
Apart from the occasional lonesome deliveroo rider, a few street cleaners, a couple of joggers and homeless people - there is pretty much nothing in the way of ‘life’ in the city centre. Even on a Sunday at this time, the streets would be lined with Sunday shoppers and drinkers.
The closest I can approximate the feeling of taking these shots is similar to the way I’ve felt when entering an abandoned building in the past - unsure what was round the corner, heart-pumping, breath almost empty.
And for once, I longed for people to be in the shots.
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