On pause from above
A digitally curated collection, 2020
Cover photo by Joe Raedle / Getty
COVID-19 has changed the world in many ways and the shifts can be hard to grasp in their suddenness and entirety. It can be helpful - and a bit shocking - to see the changes from a new and wider perspective. On Pause from Above provides that unique vantage point by looking at our changed world from a bird’s eye view.
Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, March 6, 2020. Bandar Aldandani / AFP / Getty Images
Legend Siam theme park in Pattaya, Thailand, March 8, 2020. Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Images
Newly dug graves in Vila Formosa Cemetery, São Paulo, Brazil, April 1, 2020. Miguel Schincariol / Getty
South Beach, March 16, 2020, in Miami Beach, Florida. City officials closed the area due to its popularity with college spring breakers. Joe Raedle / Getty
Piazza Duomo Milan, Italy. April 3, 2020. Nicolo Campo
“I’m an RF technician, working on multiple rooftops a day. This is just one of the drained pools I’ve photographed while working in the summer of 2020”. Watervliet, NY. September 30, 2020. Jessica Johnson
Activists dig mock graves on Copacabana beach symbolising the deaths caused by COVID-19, protesting against the government’s handling of the pandemic. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 11, 2020. Florian Plaucheur/ AFP / Getty
The photographers
This exhibition is a curation of known professional photographers, as well as images taken by everyday people, capturing the realities of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photographs have been curated from news sources as well as social channels.