DAY 1 - Businesses have lost income locally but not their spirit. The owners have supplied the needs in the area for decades who have, normally supplied school children’s clothing and workers clothing. But in their support for the NHS they have printed their own T-Shirts for display to the public in their shop window. The most visible experiences I have of the local community where I walk is the amazing creative pictures and messages that are displayed in gratitude and thankfulness. People are getting very creative in their slogans for the NHS.

DAY 2 - I walk pass this building & two others like it every day for my daily walk and although every where feels like a ghost town I was a bit unerred by the feeling that such densely populated buildings didn’t even feel lived in anymore. Its only when you approach dusk that the lights start to come on inside the flats and you are feeling relieved at the signs of life.

DAY 3 - The current restrictions under Lockdown stipulate only going out once a day. So I decided to ask my daughter Naomi if I could photograph her when she takes Poppy our dog for her daily walk. Naomi herself is a fitness fanatic and doesn’t do slow walking. Here she is complete with her roller skates.

DAY 4 - I was photographing the queues near my local supermarket about a few hundred yards from my house and saw this gentleman everybody was staring at. I followed him and started a conversation with him about his amazing PPE told him about the Historic England project. He said he gets stopped a lot and people film and have his photograph taken in other supermarkets. He said he can’t take any risks with his health regarding COVID-19 as he recently had major heart surgery recently and is worried about getting the disease. Asian & Black people have been disproportionatley affected by the disease in the city.

DAY 5 - Boundary Way Allotments are a couple of hundered yards from where I live. I went there a day before and met a Jamaican man named Tony Mclean and we started a conversation about my work. He told me that his wife Jenny was at a funeral of her best friend Nidiya who had died of COVID-19 at that very time. I spoke with her on Sunday morning and she said she would be happy to have a chat at the allotments because she finds a lot of solace being there. She was almost physically sick herself while at her friends funeral remembering the 33 years, she was best friends with Nidiya.

DAY 6 - All my 3 children are teenagers living in Lockdown with their parents. My eldest son Matthew had just given his little brother a haircut (Joshua pictured). All teenage boys will be able to identify with this photograph, as they by and large are doing the same in their homes during the new normal. I decided to look at the details of the fade (probably laughable by a professional barber/hairdresser) and the cut hair against the background lit up by the early evening light

DAY 7 - I have witnessed a lot of amazing creativity in my local area with the community showing support for the NHS locally which has bought people together. I spotted this in a neighbours window and the message had been written by a child. The grandfather had placed it in the window and it touched me because through watching the news and witnessing the global devastation this peculiar disease has affected our way of life unexpectedly, the picture was a welcome breath of fresh air. A didn’t expect a few words written by a child would have such a positive effect on changing my mood….but it did and filled me with some hope for the future.