Photos from May, 2020 amid the height of the COVID Pandemic

 

Lately our lives have been dominated by silence thanks to COVID-19. Streets are empty, people are (hopefully) isolating when necessary, and, even in the midst of a presidential campaign at a critical moment in U.S., updates on coronavirus posses the media’s attention. It is a miraculously simple and also extremely complex time. Simple in the sense that people have fallen into routines and the majority of their daily lives have been restricted and limited to rather mundane and familiar activities. In the past weeks/months, we’ve barely ventured out of our homes. However, our lives are also extremely complex because of the abundance of uncertainty and fear that, according to some doctors and psychiatrists, is believed to be comparable to some of the most tense warring periods since WWII. Silence has a similar effect, creating a sense of threatening calm due to its simplicity and emptiness but also the complex uncertainty that always lies below the surface.

 

In these images, I photographed scenes that appear silent but also imply nature's complexity and ability to change quickly.