A DIFFERENT KIND OF BLUE

The Covid lockdown of 2020 led to some unique changes to the environment. Between 25 March and 21 June there were no commercial jets flying and almost no traffic on the roads. Colours and sounds of the natural world suddenly seemed more vivid, more lucid and the skies of East London took on new colour and intensity. For forty-nine days, the length of the first and strictest lockdown in England, I took one picture each day on 35mm film of the sky above my house in Leytonstone which was normally under the flightpath from City Airport. The period now feels like a weird socially-distanced fever dream and photographs of that time seem to reveal new colours that are somehow different.

2020