Daniel Cole

Photographer

COVID Christmas

Location: Barcelona

Nationality: USA, Catalan/Spanish

Biography: I am a Catalan/American photojournalist and documentary photographer currently covering the French Riviera for the Associated Press, based in Marseille. I am cofounder of www.monvisuals.org .

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COVID Christmas

Copyright Daniel Cole 2022

Updated Feb 2022

Topics Documentary, Journalism, Loss, Love, Pandemics, Photography, Photojournalism

Marseille’s La Timone Hospital, one of France’s biggest hospitals, has weathered wave after wave of COVID-19. On Christmas Eve, medical personnel decorated a fir tree in the corridor and seized a moment for a communal meal in their scrubs, trying to maintain a semblance of holiday spirit in between rounds. During the Christmas period France declared the highest daily number of covid-19 cases ever recorded due to the new Omicron variant.