Biography:
David Sládek is a Czech independent photojournalist living in London and a former reporter for the Czech News Agency. Since moving to London more than a decade and a half ago he has been focusing his photographic work on people, their lives...
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Focus:Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist, Publisher, Documentary, Photography, Civil Rights and Social Inequality
Topics
Abandonment, Black and White, Covid-19, Documentary, Epidemics, Health/Healing, Isolation, Pandemics, Photography, Spotlight, Street
Once full of life, love and protest, London streets went silent on the first Spring day of 2020 as COVID-19 coronavirus took over the world. Whilst most European countries have introduced strict controls on wearing protective face masks and public gatherings were cancelled a week ago, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced only on Friday 20th March that pubs, clubs and gyms are to be closed. As panic buying emptied supermarket shelves of many essential goods Brits are now advised to exercise social distancing by staying at home. And most of them seem to do so. However, face protection is not yet taking to streets.