Sheffield: In a Global Pandemic

This is part of a series of photos taken around the city of Sheffield during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, lockdowns and the year following it. The project documents visible changes, messages, some of the people and PPE.

The full series of these photographs featured in a photobook as part of the Stories from the Pandemic exhibition, at the Millenium Gallery between the 25th February and 5th March 2023.

A handful of photos from the exhibition with work on disply;

Exhibition enterance at the millenium gallery
Stories from the Pandemic, entrance at The Millenium Gallery, Sheffield.
Compassionate Sheffield display board in the exhibition
Compassionate Sheffield.
Pandemic photobook on the table with hand sanitizer
Printed book of photos on display.
Dining room table with chairs, and a wall unit with surrounding pandemic stories and photobook on the table
The exhibition had spaces to represent the home to reflect lockdown and time spent there. Stories scatter the spaces in the exhibition, with wall to write people’s own experiances.

Selected photos from the work;

Park Gate with Stay at Home sign
Supportive messages written in chalk on a wall
Childrens drawing and message of support for NHS written on a pavement in chalk
Queing people outside Sainsbury's on the moor, sheffield
A notice on a supermarket floor to keep a 2 meter distance
Rainbows displayed in peoples windows to show support for NHS and keyworkers
A hand drawn sign in someones garden thanking keyworkers
Orchard Square shopping center locked up and deserted
boarded up Frog & Parrot pub with spray painted messages of support for NHS and keyworkers
Sheffield Train Station without people
Howard Street, Sheffield without people
a surgical mask stuck in razor wire
A surgical mask discarded in a letter box
A retail worker wearing PPE with blue face mask and blue hair
A woman adjusts an elder womans surgical face mask
two people with matching dyed blonde hair and surgical masks
yellow converse trainers with yellow hazzard tape on ground
a discarded blue surgical glove next to tram track
white gloves discarded on ground with hazzard tape on ground for queuing
a box of tissues sits on a car dashbard with a dessert island hanging in the window
an elder gentleman wears a facemask with sunglasses
an elder lady at a bus shelter weaing a surgical mask
a protestor sign hangs from walkway over road protesting a weak NHS payrise
an abulance drives past a discarded yellow homemade mask
an LED traffic notice sign displays COVID-19 instructions

Links to those involved in the exhibition;
Compassionate Sheffield, Opus Independants, Sheffield City Council, Lab4Living, Emmaus and Sheffield Sustainable Kitchens.