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We’ll meet again

How’s COVID-19 been for you? I feel dreadfully sorry for the many for whom it has been life-changing and all those poor souls who have had to stop working and are worried they may have no job to return to. My wife is a key worker so I have some understanding of what the sharp end is like. It’s not easy. It’s certainly the most difficult situation our country has had to face in my lifetime.

I live in a small village in the Hampshire countryside and if you’ve got to be locked down it’s not a bad place to be. Without doubt it’s been the longest period in my adult life without touching a camera professionally. It’s now the middle of May and my last job as a photographer was on 21 March, the Saturday before the lockdown began. Eight weeks and the only pictures I’ve taken

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