This is the corruption of data through photographic representation.
In the advancing digital age, the conversation has been redirected, with data rights and biological threats being the next undertaking for humanity to manage. However, the pandemic of today didn’t originate from an intended act, but rather humanities need for the simple act of consumption. We are a species that is driven to consume. The impact a biological deterrent would have physically on the human body has been widely discussed, however, foreseeing its mental and stationary impact on an individual and global scale, was part of the unknown. How people would react, making the choice they would, on what its most important: life, economy, family, career, survival.
This image was created from my perspective of the current lockdown. This image is a depiction of how we as individuals and a global community have become motionless on our own planet, closing connections to each other, staying indoors and biding time, to contain the outbreak. Equally, it is a representation of how nature has taken back a level of control, with a decrease in pollution and the breakdown of dense population, sightings of wildlife have become more frequent. This pandemic has illustrated how simple changes could bring a level of balance back to the world we inhabit. As we return to the world as it was, it’s important to remember the good with the bad, the benefits it’s had on wildlife, with the halting of economic growth. This year has represented the changes than can and should be implemented, and how when it comes to the most basic means of survival, humanity will pull through.
