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In many ways, the pandemic has brought hardship and even tragedy to all our lives. For me, it also brought creative renewal.

At the beginning of 2020, I was in the grip of a creative block and feeling at a dead-end in my landscape photography. I remember receiving advice from photographer/writer Guy Tal at the time, saying that one of the best remedies for a creative block was to stop doing what one usually does and do something entirely different for a while. This is exactly what happened.

Deprived of the freedom to go out to my favourite landscape haunts with my camera and, at times, even confined to my home, I sat in the house thinking, ‘So what shall I do now?’ And as I gazed around, I started seeing familiar objects in a new light. Items in the house were transformed from their objective identities into patterns of shadow and light, reflections, and textures. So I started photographing them.

The Lockdown Landscape series was born. As I continued...

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