London Rebooted Project - Portraits of London

It was a Monday morning in mid-March. I’d just finished editing the previous days’ headshots and I was checking my diary of shoots for the month, when the emails started coming in………A few days later my busy diary was empty, and on the same Friday I became a stay at home dad to our three-year-old daughter. The following week the lockdown started.

My initial feelings were confusion trying to process what was happening, then frustration, not being able to be out there documenting it. Then, when I began to accept the impact of these events that I couldn’t control, I was able to appreciate the incredible moments I was able to share with my daughter, that in normal everyday life I never would have had.

While that was my early experience of the pandemic, millions of people around the country from all walks of life, had their own very unique journey through this period, and their own feelings or fears of the coronavirus. In an effort to interpret and understand that, the aim of my ‘London Rebooted’ project was to shoot portraits of different people I meet on the streets of London, with a few words about them and their experience of Covid-19 and of this unprecedented world event that in some way connects us all.

Click the pictures below to read their stories or check out my instagram @nathanclarkephotography where all the new portraits and words will be posted first.

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