I am so honoured to have been selected as a Finalist in the National Portrait Gallery’s annual Photography Exhibition: Living Memory. Out of 3,000 submissions 79 Finalists were selected. The theme for the 2021 exhibition reflected the unusual events which were presented to us in 2020 such as Covid-19 and the devastating bushfires.
I took this image as a personal project to documents the impacts of Covid during lockdown in Sydney. The red and white tape wrapped around public furniture became a reoccurring theme. When the woman walked in the frame and raised her arm I knew that was the decisive moment.
The exhibition is on at the National Portrait Gallery from 31st July-7 November 2021, before travelling to various locations around Australia.