“Letters to the Loved Ones”
The British Photographic Assignment 2020: COVID-19, Entry “Letters to the Loved Ones”
Entry by Photographer Akiko DuPont
“Writing is different from texting”, several participants have said, after they’ve written the letters.
I asked people in London (South London since it had to be within my walking distance) if they can write a letter to someone they’ve been thinking of or have been wanting to meet since the COVID-19 lockdown began.
Since the lockdown started, I hear that people began to text more, but phone calls to each other are becoming even more common.
As much as we are scared of what the virus will bring, we are craving for connection and missing someone more than ever.
Letters are one of the most intimate forms of communications in this hyper connected world.
The project “Letters to the Loved Ones”’ participants vary from a seven year old to someone who experienced WWII, from a local bakery to someone who lives on a boat, from someone writing to their unborn family to whom have lost their loved ones because of the virus, from born and bred Londoners to those from across the globe.
The new British Photographic Assignments, open to all British-based photographers and those of British nationality the world over is continuing to accept images until 1st of January 2021.
