Lockdown London
When the national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic was announced by Boris Johnson on 23 March, photographer Jan Enkelmann was out cycling in central London. ‘I was working from home and just needed to get out for some exercise,’ he says. ‘On that night I was just randomly cycling somewhere in Westminster and my wife sent me a message saying, “Come back, you shouldn’t be out there.”
‘In London it’s always busy, wherever you go and at whatever time, but on that evening the streets were already deserted. It was an amazing sight. I found it fascinating.’
For Jan, this was the beginning of a successful photo project in which he explored the empty streets of the capital during this unique period. He has successfully funded a book, Pause. London in Lockdown, via Kickstarter and sold more prints of these images than for any of his other projects.
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