Volume 3: May 2020
Locked Down is a photo journal capturing images from across Glasgow.
Every issue charts a month of lockdown through the quotes of senior UK politicians
Notes on the project:
2020 is a year no-one will forget. Measures taken to reduce the spread of Covid-19, have had a massive impact on everyone's daily lives. Meanwhile governments and politicians have struggled to both limit the spread of the virus and prevent the economy from collapse.
Both the virus and the measures taken to reduce the spread, have resulted in a disproportionate impact on those already hardest hit by a dysfunctional and inequitable economic system.
At the time of writing the aftermath is still being played out. Almost a year on from when the first lockdown measures were introduced, Glasgow and Scotland remain subject to lockdown conditions.
This project seeks to document each month of a year in lockdown, from March 2020 to March 2021. Each volume is focussed on a particular month, using pictures taken in Glasgow over the course of the year, each image is captioned with a quote from a senior UK politician during that month. Using World Health Organisation figures, each volume ends with a statistical overview of Covid-19 infection and death rates up to the end of that month.
The pictures presented in the journal, are intended to highlight a sense of social isolation that has been felt by many throughout this period. Glasgow is a city where many of it's working people have long struggled with issues resulting from alienation. It has often fell to the people of Glasgow to be the catalyst for breaking the spell of a malignant depression that haunts many of us. Lockdown restrictions have placed additional barriers between people, strengthening the conditions that allows feelings of depression and isolation to thrive.
Locked Down, forced to confront our life choices, decisions and events that have led us to the conditions of our current isolation. Escape can only be found in brief walks around our immediate communities, here we see the scars of a city that has long past it's best season in bloom.
