While those images document various ripple effects on our lives, it is the great emptying out of public space that gestures towards the dystopic. Humans are social creatures and public space is where we gather. Typically featuring vacant landscapes and ruined buildings, late photographs are also notable for their absence of people and for their emptiness. But with these lockdown photographs, the human absence is the horror itself. We have abandoned public space not to avoid connection, but rather to take care of each other.

Source: thestar April 12, 2020 07:41 UTC