Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Chris Kern on September 21, 2020, 11:41:55 am
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The U.K. National Portrait Gallery website is offering a "crowdsourced" collection of 100 photographs made this summer during the pandemic (https://www.npg.org.uk/hold-still/hold-still-gallery/).
Unlike a somewhat similar project by the U.S. Library of Congress (https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=136136.0), which features an open-ended call for photographs documenting the pandemic, the British exhibit is themed: "Helpers and Heroes", "Your New Normal", and "Acts of Kindness"―and, unsurprisingly for a portrait gallery, the goal was to collect photographs of people rather than sweeping up any pictures the submitters considered relevant. There are a few outstanding images as well as a number of ordinary ones, but overall I think it is a rather effective record of the personal impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.