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Over the course of five weeks Magnum Photos and National Geographic collaborated to provide a global look at how the coronavirus affected the photographers’ worlds – both inside and outside of their homes. National Geographic asked the Magnum Collective to respond to a different theme each week. Over 40 photographers had images published in a weekly gallery on National Geographic’s digital channels.

Week 1: Family
GB. London. March 27, 2020. Thea and Nono getting fresh air in the park. Coronavirus confinement. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
NORWAY. Nesoddtangen. April 10, 2020. At home with daughters Boe and Billie, as all the nursery schools are closed during the Coronavirus outbreak. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
POLAND. Warsaw. March 27, 2020. Portrait of the family on quarantine. © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
GREECE. Athens. March 29, 2020. In Front of the mirror is the reflection she loves to see. As well as the reflection of the society I want to see after this will be over. A colorful playground (...) like all our house has turned into latley. Every singel room. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
SOUTH AFRICA. Thokoza. March 28, 2020. Family is home, love and being together for me has changed because of the current crisis. We had to separate because the house is to small. My mother lives © Lindokuhle Sobekwa | Magnum Photos
USA. Petaluma, California. March 20, 2020. Alessandra Sanguinetti and our donkey Blanche in our field this week © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
GB. Brighton. March 20, 2020. Milligan learning how to tie a tie... into a Full-Windsor, naturally. No Half-Windsors for any son of mine...! © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
BRAZIL. Salvador. March 29, 2020. Missed calls. My mother, who is 76 years old, has been alone for the last 2 weeks. We used to talk two or 3 times a week when things were normal, but since she (...) is isolated she has become much more dependant. I now talk to her twice a day everyday, in the morning and before she goes to bed, to say good night. I think she is as scared for us as we are for her. Watching TV all day with terrible news about the curves and data relating to the Coronaviru is not helping. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos

Week 2: Nature
USA. Saint Paul, Minnesota. March 21, 2020. While the term ‘social distancing’ is new to me; the spirit of it isn't. So for the last few days I drove around with a pair of binoculars. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
USA. Saint Paul, Minnesota. March 21, 2020. While the term ‘social distancing’ is new to me; the spirit of it isn't. So for the last few days I drove around with a pair of binoculars. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
GB. London. 2020. Photographs of Mother's day flowers taken around 10 am every day between March 23,2020 and April 6, 2020. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
SOUTH AFRICA. Johannesburg. March 19, 2020. Nature is a complicated term when it comes to Johannesburg, because there are not that many plantations in the township compared to the surbubs and (...) that has to do with the small spaces people in the township occupy. In the surbubs people who live there have more space so they are able to have gardens in their yards. In the surbubs you find a lot of trees but In the township the most common plant you will find are roses and some other types of flowers. People also survive by planting diffrent types of vegetables for food. Some also do the same to sell to the community. © Lindokuhle Sobekwa | Magnum Photos
USA. Rochester, New York. March 20, 2020. Gregory Halpern photographs his kids, Ava and Iris, interacting with nature during the coronavirus pandemic. © Gregory Halpern | Magnum Photos
TURKEY. Istandbul. April 1, 2020. I was walking near the Bosphorus, thinking that I've never felt that lonely in this city before, which is home for 16 million people. The crowd that I was (...) complaining about was not here anymore; streets, buses, ports, boats were all empty. I started to see details I never noticed before, rediscovering my city. And I saw this incredible scene, thousands of jellyfish enjoying this quiet deep blue water of Istanbul. © Emin Ozmen | Magnum Photos
USA. Petaluma, California. March 28, 2020. This past week I've been looking out and looking in at where I live. Walking the perimeter of the land and photographing the things I find there, (...) including Harry the horse. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
FRANCE. Paris. April 1, 2020. 13 days after the Persian new year, Nowrooz. "Natures Day". Celebrated by leaving houses to join nature and returning the greenery ( part of the celebratory new (...) year's table). My wife Sahar is throwing packing her "Haft-seeen" to throw into the Seine. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
BELGIUM. Sint Amandsberg, Ghent. March 31, 2020. Henk, who I crossed paths with last Sunday, while on my daily walk in my neighborhood.This moment struck me, the image I saw through the (...) telescope made me quiet. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos

Week 3: Neighbours
BELGIUM. Sint Amandsberg, Ghent. March 18, 2020. I alternated editing my work with working in the garden and I am making some progress in both. I have no idea why it's the first time this year (...) that I have done it. This quarantaine might be good in some ways. I am still wondering though if I can cut off the branches of an apple tree this time of the year, opinions vary. The kids of my neighbors are doing well in social distancing, great to hear them play over the fences. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos
USA. Vallejo, California. March 30, 2020. The sun came out one day and my partner and I packed up the camera gear and rode our bikes around to say hi to some friends in the neighborhood, trying (...) to follow the 6 foot distance rule. © Carolyne Drake | Magnum Photos
SOUTH AFRICA. Thokoza. April 11, 2020. I miss hearing the sound of the taxis taking people to work, the sound of the first train at 4 am that most of the people in my neighborhood use. Since the © Lindokuhle Sobekwa | Magnum Photos
RUSSIA. Moscow. April 8, 2020. The life in my neighborhood, surrounded in soviet skyscrapers has always been quiet anonymous. Many neighbors left to the countryside to stay at their summer (...) homes. I started to observe the ones who stayed. I have noticed this dog some time ago. Now he changed his outfit- seemingly to fit to the current situation. He takes a walk at least three times a day. Sometimes in the company of a women, sometimes in the company of a man. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
USA. Santa Rosa, California. March 6, 2020. My daughter Catalina misses her friends very much, so we did the rounds in our car and visited her best friends from far way. Here she's breaking the (...) rules and touching fingertips with her best friend Avery. © Alessandra Sanguinetti | Magnum Photos

Week 4: Essential Workers
TURKEY. Istanbul. April 14, 2020. An employee of Istanbul municipality disinfects the streets of Beyoglu neighborhood, located in a touristic area. Tourists that are no longer there. © Emin Ozmen | Magnum Photos
BRAZIL. Itacaré. April 18, 2020. Ednaldo Cardoso, 44 is the priest of the only catholic church in Itacaré (Bahía). He arrived 5 years ago and still has one more year before he moves on to the (...) next town. Ednaldo is quite a progressive father, he has a music band, drinks beer and is very active engaging with the community. His church has been closed for the last 3 weeks but he kept himself available to anyone who needed spiritual advice via Whatsapp. He says he cannot give confesion but he can listen and try to appease his parioshioners in the distance. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
POLAND. Krakow. March 31, 2020. A small private company Yeti shifted their production line, designing and producing various plastic elements in response of COVID-19 pandemic. They have designed (...) their own improvised model of protective visors and supplied 800 pieces to the local hospitals. Hospitals need for basic protective tools such as masks or visors is large. The shortage of the materials puts the doctors in high risk of contamination. A lot of small businesses in Poland will have to be closed without state support. This small company hasn’t fired any of the employees yet but they soon will be facing financial difficulties. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
ITALY. Bergamo. April 17, 2020. I took this picture right in front a later exit from Bergamo cemetery. The well dressed man standing there is a cemetery worker. The contrast between the (...) billboard proclaiming the easiness of witless payments, and a man that probably is living with his pension, that maybe worked all his life and maybe is enjoying his free time because he is wearing Hawaiian shirt ( another cliche’) next to some death collector looking quite lost, in his eyes protected like everybody is now in this society we grandiosely built with gloves and masks. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos

Week 5: Quiet
NORWAY. Nesoddtangen. April 26, 2020. Life during Corona pandemic. Boe and Billie running through a forest with Anemone flowers. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Poland, Krokow 31.03.2020 Empty National Library reading hall. The Jagiellonian University was closed due to COVID-19 pandemic on March 10th. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
CANADA. March 19, 2020. I am currently in Canada for a personal trip. Two days ago the Tunisian goverment closed the borders and canceled all flights to Tunisia. Unfortunately, I did not bring (...) my camera. Maybe I will buy one in the coming days. © Zied Ben Romdhane | Magnum Photos
USA. Petaluma, California. March 23, 2020. Alone by the river. (Jim Golderg document what he considers quiet during the Coronavirus Pandemic). © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
USA. Weflleet, Cape Cod. April 27, 2020. Sequestered here on Cape Cod, Rebecca and I decided to do what we often do—collaborate on a project to try to make sense of the world around us. So while © Alex Webb | Magnum Photos

National Geographic

 

Over the course of five weeks Magnum Photos and National Geographic collaborated to provide a global look at how the coronavirus affected the photographers’ worlds – both inside and outside of their homes. National Geographic asked the Magnum Collective to respond to a different theme each week. Over 40 photographers had images published in a weekly gallery on National Geographic’s digital channels.

Week 1: Family
GB. London. March 27, 2020. Thea and Nono getting fresh air in the park. Coronavirus confinement. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
NORWAY. Nesoddtangen. April 10, 2020. At home with daughters Boe and Billie, as all the nursery schools are closed during the Coronavirus outbreak. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
POLAND. Warsaw. March 27, 2020. Portrait of the family on quarantine. © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
GREECE. Athens. March 29, 2020. In Front of the mirror is the reflection she loves to see. As well as the reflection of the society I want to see after this will be over. A colorful playground (...) like all our house has turned into latley. Every singel room. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
SOUTH AFRICA. Thokoza. March 28, 2020. Family is home, love and being together for me has changed because of the current crisis. We had to separate because the house is to small. My mother lives © Lindokuhle Sobekwa | Magnum Photos
USA. Petaluma, California. March 20, 2020. Alessandra Sanguinetti and our donkey Blanche in our field this week © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
GB. Brighton. March 20, 2020. Milligan learning how to tie a tie... into a Full-Windsor, naturally. No Half-Windsors for any son of mine...! © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
BRAZIL. Salvador. March 29, 2020. Missed calls. My mother, who is 76 years old, has been alone for the last 2 weeks. We used to talk two or 3 times a week when things were normal, but since she (...) is isolated she has become much more dependant. I now talk to her twice a day everyday, in the morning and before she goes to bed, to say good night. I think she is as scared for us as we are for her. Watching TV all day with terrible news about the curves and data relating to the Coronaviru is not helping. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos

Week 2: Nature
USA. Saint Paul, Minnesota. March 21, 2020. While the term ‘social distancing’ is new to me; the spirit of it isn't. So for the last few days I drove around with a pair of binoculars. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
USA. Saint Paul, Minnesota. March 21, 2020. While the term ‘social distancing’ is new to me; the spirit of it isn't. So for the last few days I drove around with a pair of binoculars. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
GB. London. 2020. Photographs of Mother's day flowers taken around 10 am every day between March 23,2020 and April 6, 2020. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
SOUTH AFRICA. Johannesburg. March 19, 2020. Nature is a complicated term when it comes to Johannesburg, because there are not that many plantations in the township compared to the surbubs and (...) that has to do with the small spaces people in the township occupy. In the surbubs people who live there have more space so they are able to have gardens in their yards. In the surbubs you find a lot of trees but In the township the most common plant you will find are roses and some other types of flowers. People also survive by planting diffrent types of vegetables for food. Some also do the same to sell to the community. © Lindokuhle Sobekwa | Magnum Photos
USA. Rochester, New York. March 20, 2020. Gregory Halpern photographs his kids, Ava and Iris, interacting with nature during the coronavirus pandemic. © Gregory Halpern | Magnum Photos
TURKEY. Istandbul. April 1, 2020. I was walking near the Bosphorus, thinking that I've never felt that lonely in this city before, which is home for 16 million people. The crowd that I was (...) complaining about was not here anymore; streets, buses, ports, boats were all empty. I started to see details I never noticed before, rediscovering my city. And I saw this incredible scene, thousands of jellyfish enjoying this quiet deep blue water of Istanbul. © Emin Ozmen | Magnum Photos
USA. Petaluma, California. March 28, 2020. This past week I've been looking out and looking in at where I live. Walking the perimeter of the land and photographing the things I find there, (...) including Harry the horse. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
FRANCE. Paris. April 1, 2020. 13 days after the Persian new year, Nowrooz. "Natures Day". Celebrated by leaving houses to join nature and returning the greenery ( part of the celebratory new (...) year's table). My wife Sahar is throwing packing her "Haft-seeen" to throw into the Seine. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
BELGIUM. Sint Amandsberg, Ghent. March 31, 2020. Henk, who I crossed paths with last Sunday, while on my daily walk in my neighborhood.This moment struck me, the image I saw through the (...) telescope made me quiet. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos

Week 3: Neighbours
BELGIUM. Sint Amandsberg, Ghent. March 18, 2020. I alternated editing my work with working in the garden and I am making some progress in both. I have no idea why it's the first time this year (...) that I have done it. This quarantaine might be good in some ways. I am still wondering though if I can cut off the branches of an apple tree this time of the year, opinions vary. The kids of my neighbors are doing well in social distancing, great to hear them play over the fences. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos
USA. Vallejo, California. March 30, 2020. The sun came out one day and my partner and I packed up the camera gear and rode our bikes around to say hi to some friends in the neighborhood, trying (...) to follow the 6 foot distance rule. © Carolyne Drake | Magnum Photos
SOUTH AFRICA. Thokoza. April 11, 2020. I miss hearing the sound of the taxis taking people to work, the sound of the first train at 4 am that most of the people in my neighborhood use. Since the © Lindokuhle Sobekwa | Magnum Photos
RUSSIA. Moscow. April 8, 2020. The life in my neighborhood, surrounded in soviet skyscrapers has always been quiet anonymous. Many neighbors left to the countryside to stay at their summer (...) homes. I started to observe the ones who stayed. I have noticed this dog some time ago. Now he changed his outfit- seemingly to fit to the current situation. He takes a walk at least three times a day. Sometimes in the company of a women, sometimes in the company of a man. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
USA. Santa Rosa, California. March 6, 2020. My daughter Catalina misses her friends very much, so we did the rounds in our car and visited her best friends from far way. Here she's breaking the (...) rules and touching fingertips with her best friend Avery. © Alessandra Sanguinetti | Magnum Photos

Week 4: Essential Workers
TURKEY. Istanbul. April 14, 2020. An employee of Istanbul municipality disinfects the streets of Beyoglu neighborhood, located in a touristic area. Tourists that are no longer there. © Emin Ozmen | Magnum Photos
BRAZIL. Itacaré. April 18, 2020. Ednaldo Cardoso, 44 is the priest of the only catholic church in Itacaré (Bahía). He arrived 5 years ago and still has one more year before he moves on to the (...) next town. Ednaldo is quite a progressive father, he has a music band, drinks beer and is very active engaging with the community. His church has been closed for the last 3 weeks but he kept himself available to anyone who needed spiritual advice via Whatsapp. He says he cannot give confesion but he can listen and try to appease his parioshioners in the distance. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
POLAND. Krakow. March 31, 2020. A small private company Yeti shifted their production line, designing and producing various plastic elements in response of COVID-19 pandemic. They have designed (...) their own improvised model of protective visors and supplied 800 pieces to the local hospitals. Hospitals need for basic protective tools such as masks or visors is large. The shortage of the materials puts the doctors in high risk of contamination. A lot of small businesses in Poland will have to be closed without state support. This small company hasn’t fired any of the employees yet but they soon will be facing financial difficulties. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
ITALY. Bergamo. April 17, 2020. I took this picture right in front a later exit from Bergamo cemetery. The well dressed man standing there is a cemetery worker. The contrast between the (...) billboard proclaiming the easiness of witless payments, and a man that probably is living with his pension, that maybe worked all his life and maybe is enjoying his free time because he is wearing Hawaiian shirt ( another cliche’) next to some death collector looking quite lost, in his eyes protected like everybody is now in this society we grandiosely built with gloves and masks. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos

Week 5: Quiet
NORWAY. Nesoddtangen. April 26, 2020. Life during Corona pandemic. Boe and Billie running through a forest with Anemone flowers. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Poland, Krokow 31.03.2020 Empty National Library reading hall. The Jagiellonian University was closed due to COVID-19 pandemic on March 10th. © Rafal Milach | Magnum Photos
CANADA. March 19, 2020. I am currently in Canada for a personal trip. Two days ago the Tunisian goverment closed the borders and canceled all flights to Tunisia. Unfortunately, I did not bring (...) my camera. Maybe I will buy one in the coming days. © Zied Ben Romdhane | Magnum Photos
USA. Petaluma, California. March 23, 2020. Alone by the river. (Jim Golderg document what he considers quiet during the Coronavirus Pandemic). © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
USA. Weflleet, Cape Cod. April 27, 2020. Sequestered here on Cape Cod, Rebecca and I decided to do what we often do—collaborate on a project to try to make sense of the world around us. So while © Alex Webb | Magnum Photos
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