The U.K. National Portrait Gallery website is offering a "crowdsourced" collection
of 100 photographs made this summer during the pandemic.
Unlike a
somewhat similar project by the U.S. Library of Congress, 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.
