So happy to be part of this massive wonderful project with some of the photos from Neighbourhood Tales - the project I created during lockdown in London.
This mass-participation project, set up at the beginning of the March 2020 lockdown, received over 40,000 photo submissions from 90+ countries, sharing people’s experiences living through a pandemic.
A giant photo mosaic created by The People’s Picture was unveiled as part of the #massisolationFORMAT project at FORMAT21 International Photography Festival. The online interactive high resolution 180 giga pixel image is composed of a total of 180,574 photos. When the viewer zooms in they are able to see the individual photos from #massisolationFORMAT up close and in detail.
The images came from a wide range of people – photographers, professionals, amateurs, members of the public – and came together as a large scale photo mosaic installed at Quad, Derby to celebrate our collective emergence into the ‘new normal’. Chosen by FORMAT, the photograph Lovers was shot by Argentian photographers Luisa Magdalena and Nahuel Alfonso and inspired by Renè Magritte’s painting Les Amants. A double self-portrait, created in response to the Covid19 pandemic, its painterly quality with its youthful optimism of young love.